As anyone who reads my blog knows I am a strong advocate for VDI techonlogies particulary Citrix VDI-in-a-Box which has the key advantage of being able to use local storage (which is great for SSDs!). As part of this I’m now happy to report that Citrix has used my old workplace (a medium secondary school in Oxfordshire) as a case… Read more
Tag: VDI-in-a-Box
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
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