A CEO’s Notes from VMworld 2009
My boss just returned from VMworld 2009 today and shared with me his notes from the San Francisco Virtualization conference. I decided not to go to VMworld this…
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The Great Debate : Citrix vs. VMware
If the Blogosphere was a campaign trail, then ‘The Thilla in California’ would have been the first primetime debate! And Chris Wolf did a great Bob Schieffer job…
vSphere (ESX4) and Citrix Provisioning Services
While testing Citrix Provisioning Services on vSphere I noticed a couple of interesting things : Thin Provisioned streamed targets seem pretty neat. ;) Originally a couple of kb,…
Clean up Unwanted TermService PerfMon EventLog entries
Written by Aaron Silber: I have seen this message in my event logs before, but being that it relates to PerfMon I never bothered to see what caused…
Quick Provisioning Services Tweak for Physical Servers and Targets.
Disable Checksum Offloading on Network Adapter. Offload parameters, which are not compatible with the Provisioning Server network stack, could cause slow performance when enabled on the physical network…
Citrix XenDesktop ICA Optimizations and Tweaks
David Paoleschi sent over to me some quick tweaks when building a Citrix XenDesktop environment. Many of these optimizations specifically target XD environments that operate over WAN connections…
Interesting AMD Processor Issues – EdgeSight and GPOs.
Just cleaning out my inbox and noticed 2 separate threads on AMD Processor issues. From David Paoleschi : FYI – Dual-Core AMD issue to be aware of. This…
Configuring Citrix NetScaler to Load Balance VMware View Connection Brokers
Currently with VMware View 3.1, multiple Connection Brokers are required to provide a robust redundant environment. Enter Citrix’s NetScalers. Among their numerous features, they provide excellent Global Service…
Seemingly Exponential Citrix EdgeSight Database Growth
If your EdgeSight database is growing out of control, you might want to double-check your GPOs. Chris Hahn recently encountered an EdgeSight database growing abnormally quickly. (About 44GBs…