Application delivery and virtualization news
Windows 2008
VIDEO: How to Install MS VDI on as Single Server using Windows 7 Guests
gen 28
Microsoft published a video about installing a complete MS VDI solution and how many servers does it take. Video showcases that you can setup a complete solution including backend, broker, and web publishing to provide virtualized clients on a single physical Windows Server 2008 R2 box. This sample uses Windows 7 for the guest. The complete 16 [...]
Citrix Essentials 5.5 for Hyper-V (with StorageLink Site Recovery)
dic 16
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 [...]
RemoteApp for Hyper-V
dic 16
I want to talk about a little known feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 that could be described as RemoteApp for Hyper-V. Like Microsoft RemoteApp, it allows users to access a specific hosted application remotely, as opposed to the entire desktop. With RemoteApp, the application runs in the context of a server session; however, RemoteApp [...]
Personal Virtual Desktops
nov 17
With Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft supports two VDI deployment scenarios: virtual desktop pools and personal virtual desktops. The two scenarios present two different models of assigning virtual machines to end users: shared and dedicated. This post describes personal virtual desktops.
What is a personal virtual desktop? – A personal virtual desktop is a virtual machine hosted on [...]
Publishing in Windows Server 2008 R2
nov 13
There are a number of ways in which an administrator can publish RemoteApp programs and virtual desktops in Windows Server 2008 R2. The following contains a brief, high-level overview of the publishing options you have, depending on the size of your deployment.
Very small deployment, single Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) server/farm:
If your deployment [...]