XenApp over XenDesktop; Are you getting the correct drive mappings?
In environments where you might be so inclined to run XenApp Published applications over your XenDesktop sessions, the default behavior for the ICA protocol is to map a…
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New VMware View Version – Say that 5 times!
Although not totally NEW – It’s been out for about a month; VMware View 3.1.1 Build version 175957 is out. The release notes can be found here. The …
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…
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…
What’s the deal with the new PVSCSI drivers?
New in vSphere are ParaVirtualized SCSI drivers. From what I have read at various places, 12% performance throughput increase with 18% decrease on guest CPU loads! Sounds great…
Duplicate SIDs, Big Deal! Why you might not need to care.
Recently, I have been having some great conversations about the benefits of using golden images of servers and desktops to rapidly deploy using either templates or streaming technologies. …
How Big should I make the Paging File in Windows?
Here is a repost of an article sent to me by Aaron Silber. Can’t get much of a better source than Mark. He wrote an article on pushing…
Do you need a D drive in a virtualized environment?
I think it is an interesting question… If I were to build a generic Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 server today (forget SQL or Exchange – think infrastructure…