I suddenly have this urge. The urge to own a Commodore 64 again. It’s been the computer of my childhood, and the machine that got me interested into pursuing a career in computers. Unfortunately I sold it a long time Continue reading The 2018 C64 Project – Part 1 – Research and shoppinglist
Hi all, The Nutanix Sizer tool (http://sizer.nutanix.com) has been available for quite some time now, but we ofcourse never stop innovating on it. One of the latest additions is the ability to import the popular RVTools (https://www.robware.net/rvtools/) output Continue reading The Size Is Right European Sticker Sweepstake!
A well known saying that comes from motorsport. If you wanna win the race, make sure your car survives the race first. The fast and the furious A long time ago on Dutch television, a new show started called “Blik Continue reading To finish first, you first have to finish
It’s almost time for Citrix Synergy, and if you’re interested in XenDesktop’s provisioning technology, come visit session SYN-219 – Getting up close and personal with MCS and PVS. Here’s a little background: Virtual Desktops and provisioning go hand in hand. Continue reading SYN219- Getting up close and personal with MCS and PVS
It’s an old saying; “A picture is worth a thousand words.” I believe this still holds true, but the problem is it really all depends on who is the viewing audience of your picture and if they truly understand the Continue reading A picture is worth a 1000 words….
Hi all, While prepping a few demo’s of RDS / XenApp on the Acropolis hypervisor I decided to shoot a few quick iPhone video’s of how easy and fast the provisioning mechanism in the Acropolis hypervisor really is, and how Continue reading Quick demo’s: Acropolis hypervisor acli cloning ops
An exciting day! Today Citrix and Nutanix announced Nutanix Acropolis to be Citrix Ready. Not just for XenApp and XenDesktop, but also for Sharefile and Netscaler. In this post I want to focus on the impact of this for desktop Continue reading Making VDI invisible.
Hi all, It’s here: the Nutanix Community Edition. But you know what sucks? There’s a line to get in. Wanna know a secret? I got invite codes to help you jump the queue! How do you get one? Just submit Continue reading Nutanix Community Edition Invitation codes
I was playing around with my demo environment and modified the wallpaper to give it a nice Nutanix branding. Here’s the result: To do this simply edit the file C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Citrix\CitrixWeb\contrib\custom.style file. The “CitrixWeb” part might be different depending on your store Continue reading Quick how-to: skinning StoreFront
Weapon of choice? Recently I’ve been involved in some internal and external discussions about wether or not a XenDesktop deployment should use Provisioning Services (PVS) or Machine Creation Services (MCS). Ever since Citrix released MCS with the release of XenDesktop Continue reading Provisioning Services; time to let go