Recently, three new articles related to planning and deploying Citrix XenDesktop have come out to help you with getting a XenDesktop environment up and running with VMware vSphere. Two come from Citrix Consulting services; a Planning Guide incorporating Citrix Consulting best practices from the field and the lab, and a Deployment Guide with step-by-step instructions to help you get your base configuration up and running.
Allen Furmanski, Citrix, published a nice article about XenDesktop or VDI-in-a-Box choice. In this article Allen discusess some points here to compare and contrast the two products. Kumar Goswami, VP for our VDI-in-a-Box product, briefly talks about the topic in a blog post at http://blogs.citrix.com/2011/12/01/citrix-vdi-in-a-box-v5-is-now-here-%E2%80%A6-give-it-a-go/. He writes that “If you need simple VDI use ViaB. Otherwise go with XD with its
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Citrix, at Summit Barcelona, has launched Citrix VDI-in-a-Box 5 – the easy all-in-one VDI solution for Small and Medium Businesses. VDI-in-a-Box 5 has many exciting new features that make it a simple yet complete VDI solution for SMBs: Even simpler, more intuitive – we have completely revised and revamped the VDI-in-a-Box management console to make it even simpler, even more intuitive,
Citrix has announced the immediate availability of XenDesktop 5.5. Citrix continues to innovate in the desktop virtualization space and build on the on the market leading trajectory established with first with XenDesktop 4.0 — the industry’s first VDI offering to provide integrated app and desktop delivery in a single product – and extended with XenDesktop 5.0 — focused on simplification
Citrix announced availability of the latest version of the Citrix Reference Architecture for Multi-tenant DaaS. The Citrix® Reference Architecture for Multi-tenant Desktop as a Service presents guidance for Citrix Service Provider partners in the process of designing their new generation of Desktop as a Service (DaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) hosted services. DaaS and SaaS services leverage the Microsoft®Service Provider License
The Citrix Desktop Transformation Model helps customers get from “wow to how” and quickly realize the many benefits of desktop virtualization. This industry-endorsed, repeatable method guides customers in transforming their computing environment from today’s device-centric, distributed management paradigm – to a more user-centric, virtualized model. Citrix has released “The Desktop Transformation Model” that combines the collective experience of thousands of
Steve Jordahl, Citrix, published an article explains you how reset XenDesktop 5 SQL Express Database. A number of the Citrix products (XenDesktop, Provisioning Server, etc.) are capable of utilizing a SQLExpress database to allow for a simple installation experience. Unfortunately, if your install gets whacked or you want to start over there isn’t a simple, GUI way to delete the
Andreas Skuban, Citrix, published an interesting article about automated VMs creation on Hyper-V using Setup Wizard. This blog describes how to create VMs automatically on Hyper-V 2008 R2 / SCVMM 2008 R2 with the Provisioning Services 5.6 SP1 “Streamed VM Setup Wizard”. In some cases administrators noticed that no available networks had been assigned to all of their created VMs. Even they
Citrix and Microsoft have been working together for desktop virtualization solution for about three years. The announcement of the new global V-Alliance program at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference this summer has increased the interest in this solution dramatically. The components of this joint solution include the following -: As the interest continues to grow , here are some resources you can use
