Citrix has released a virtual machine performance utility based on Debian that you can help you to troubleshoot performance related issues, such as poor performance caused by storage I/O and network I/O in XenServer environment. The virtual machine, built on Debian Linux, contains the following test utilities and is accessible over a Web based user interface: Disk I/O performance utility -
Effective VM Cloning with XenServer Many companies do leverage the powerful VM cloning functionality present in XenServer. This could either do full clones including a full copy process or even leverage storage capabilities by running fast-clone methods. Especially when using StorageLink this is even more performant and effective. This may also be a major consideration when using XenDesktop deployments where
How to get flying Microsoft Windows Small Business Server with XenServer? First of all: Download Windows SBS 2008 . I used SBS 2008 x64 bit with SP2 included. Create a new virtual machine using the Windows 2008 64-bit template, run through the wizard and do a normal install of SBS. After a successfull installation the virtual machine is doing a
Citrix provides XenServer virtualization technology as a free download from here,http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/lp_1688615.asp . The download for installing the XenServer hosts is provided in two separate ISO files; one for the base installation and one for the Linux Support Pack. If you work on Linux deployments, it can be annoying to have to burn two CDs to complete the install. Of course
Following are some guidelines that can be used by most anyone who has to migrate from Vmware to XenServer Example Virtual Environment: XenDesktop 4 Desktop Delivery Controller (Windows 2003 R2, x64, 2vCPU, 4GB RAM, 1 NIC) Licensing Server (Windows 2008, x86, 1 vCPU, 2GB RAM, 1 NIC) Web Interface server (Windows 2008 R2, 2 vCPU, 4GB RAM, 1 NIC) Provisioning
OsNexus has a very smart iSCSI Software, and you can use it for free. So this is great for testing. There are a lot of free iSCSI Targets available, but this is one which has full StorageLink Support. You should download the XVA virtual Appliance for XenServer. XenTools are already installed, so you will get a very good performance. So
If you were asked what desktop resources your needed how would you answer? If you ask me what type of desktop I need, I’m going to say, 2+ cores with at least 4+ GB of RAM, 500+GB hard drive, etc. If you look at what I really need, you will see 1 core and maybe 2-3 GB of RAM. In
XenServer 5.6 was announced a couple of weeks ago at Citrix Synergy, and this morning (Eastern US time) Citrix posted it for download on citrix.com. If you are considering XenServer for the first time, or looking at upgrading to 5.6 from a prior version, here’s some information on what’s new that will help you: Dynamic Memory Control. Let’s say you
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Introduction How to create a pool of 2 (or so) XenServers without having to spend thousands of pounds on shared storage? The simplistic answer is that you don’t need any shared storage in order to create a XenServer Pool, but without it you have export and re-import VMs if you want to “load balance” your XenServers. Of course, the export/import
