Citrix makes two announcements! The first exciting announcement is the launch of the new AskTheArchictect microsite that focuses on integrating XenDesktop with Microsoft technologies. The second announcement is the release of the long awaited XenDesktop Design Guide for Hyper-V. XenDesktop on Microsoft Hyper-V Citrix and Microsoft have quite a history together and Citrix is committed to supporting the Microsoft products
A virtual desktop pool is a group of identically configured virtual machines on a Remote Desktop Virtualization Host (RD Virtualization Host) server. All virtual machines in a virtual desktop pool are identically configured; a user should see the same virtual desktop regardless of which virtual machine in the virtual desktop pool the user connects to. Therefore, when you’re setting up
New capabilities will enhance both virtualized server and virtualized desktop deployments: Remote FX: With Microsoft RemoteFX, users will be able to work remotely in a Windows Aero desktop environment, watch full-motion video, enjoy Silverlight animations, and run 3D applications within a Hyper-V VM – all with the fidelity of a local-like performance. For more info, check out Max’s blog here. Hyper-V
HP always offered a basic capacity planning tool to its customers that want to use ProLiant servers for virtualization. In November 2005 it released one for Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. In March 2007 it released one for VMware VI 3.0. Yesterday the company released also one for Microsoft Hyper-V R2. This one is not a web tool like the previous versions,
After a couple of months in beta, Citrix releases Essentials 5.5 for Hyper-V just before the holidays. This version of the management platform for the Microsoft hypervisor includes a new technology called StorageLink Site Recovery. This feature allows the Hyper-V administrators to control the replication features that their SAN arrays without using multiple consoles. From the Essentials console they can test
