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
Tag: VDI
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……
What happens when you put a OCZ PCI-E SSD in a server?
For a while I’ve been wondering just how well a PCI-Express Solid State drive would work inside a standard off the shelf rack mounted server. Finally I have been given the chance to find out and as it turns out everything works quite nicely. The solid state in question is a OCZ Revo Drive 3 x2 240GB (from Novatech) and the server is a… Read more
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