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→
Happy birthday to my employer! This month Nutanix will reach it’s 5th birthday, september 22/9 to be exact. In just 5 years time, with the first two years being in stealth mode, Nutanix has achieved some remarkable results: With annualized Continue reading Happy birthday!→
Hot or not? If you’ve recently taken a look at the very comprehensive Citrix Validated Solution for Nutanix you must have noticed the high density footprint you can achieve when running XenDesktop on our hyper-converged solution. It’s not just a drastic Continue reading How cool is your virtual (Xen)desktop?→
Hi all, Ever since Citrix released XenDesktop 5.0 we have had the debate of PVS vs MCS, or Provisioning Services vs Machine Creation Services. When I was back at Citrix we (the Systems Engineers) always had this discussion with the Continue reading Simplifying MCS with Nutanix and Shadow Clones→