As promised to those that came along to the recent VDI Demo Day the PowerPoint slides are below with the video playlist above. The day covered a wide range of topics from how to setup a Citrix VDI-in-a-Box proof of concept, the options for thin clients from 10zig and how to take things one step further with Application Virtulisation through… Read more
Category: Virtualization
The articles below delve into the wonderful energy saving world that is Virtualization. For the uninitiated Virtualization is the art of running multiple operating systems on a single item of physical hardware (commonly a server).
Virtual Desktops on PCI-E SSD – Getting the image ready
One of the great things about VDI is the ability to create a ‘golden image’, that’s one single image that includes the OS and Software which can be accessed from any endpoint. Whatever VDI software you go with will then take that golden image and duplicate it multiple times to provide the desktops for your users. However this masse creation… Read more
Virtual Desktops on PCI-E SSD – Intro
In this series I am going to be looking at how PCI-E SSDs can be used with VDI, I’ll be covering the hardware in use, the user experience and also why I believe PCI-E SSDs to be the best option to get your virtual desktops running as fast as possible.
Wrong Time Zone on Citrix VDI-in-a-Box
For quite some time now we’ve had the odd thing that all the clocks on our Citrix VDI-in-a-Box virtual desktops have been out by 7 hours. First thought was that the sysprep process was putting in the wrong timezone however if this was the case then surely there would be some people having the same issues and posting up on… Read more
App-Ving Windows Live Essentials
If you have ever tried to push Windows Live Essentials (particularly Movie Maker/Photo gallery) through App-V you may have come across this error… Couldn’t install programs Couldn’t install these programs: Photo Gallery and Movie Maker It looks like another program is preventing the installer from working. Error: 0x80070643 Source: wllogin-amd64 The reason behind this is Windows Live Essentials is trying… Read more
SSD VDI Application Load Times
Its time to do some more VDI testing! In the short video below you will see what it is like to launch multiple programs off a Virtual Desktop that is hosted on a SSD. More info on the YouTube page 🙂
RAID Cache and VDI
For the past few days I’ve been doing a little performance testing to see just how much an influence RAID cache makes when provisioning Virtual Desktops. The test was to create 20 virtual desktops and see how long it takes to get the first one spun up and ready for use and then to see how long it took to… Read more
How easy is it to add a thin client to a Citrix VDI-in-a-box grid?
This easy……
Latest update to HPs servers include 16 cores!
This is old news really but either way HP have updated a number of server models to include the new AMD Opteron 62xx processor series. The beefiest of all being the Opteron 6282SE which comes with 16 cores each packing 2.6ghz of clock speed. Naturally this kind of speed comes at a high TDP (in this case 140W) especially when… Read more
Have a play with this sometime
We all love VDI – it makes things simple to look after desktops but sometimes the back end is a little complicated. That’s where Citrix VDI-in-a-box comes in use! With many other VDI products you will find that the setup process is all about getting the SAN ready, getting various installations of Windows server ready and then getting the VDI… Read more