Posts Tagged ‘VDI’

WEBINAR: Top 5 Best Practices for Virtual Desktop Success: How to Deliver VDI Performance Assurance, User Satisfaction and ROI

eG Innovations invite you to join an on-demand webinar to discover the best top 5 best practices for a successfull  virtual desktop implementation. In this webinar, you will learn how to: Proactively manage VDI service performance Right-size the VDI environment for maximum ROI Mitigate the risk of VDI failure during deployment and ramp-up Deliver on the ROI and user experience

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New! Citrix VDI-in-a-Box 5 – Easy VDI, Big ROI

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,

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Centralized Licensing Management for Microsoft VDI

Microsoft has published an article that introduces the new Centralized Licensing Management work, implemented in Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) as a part of the RemoteFX feature, for centrally managing the licensing configuration in a Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployment. This post assumes that you have a basic understanding of the following: Windows PowerShell Various Remote Desktop

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Whitepaper: VDI TCO Analysis for Office Worker Environments

Microsoft has released a whitepaper titled VDI TCO Analysis for Office Worker Environments. This document details the outcome of a research on the costs of using VDI compared to using PCs, resulting in a conclusion that for office workers in a VDI environment (including VMware), the TCO was higher than that of a well-managed PC environment by up to 11% per user.

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Using Hyper-V Differencing Disks with VDI

On the Virtualization with Hyper-V Technical Resources page, Microsoft has posted the “Virtual Hard Disk Performance White Paper.” This paper contains information about the performance implications of operations that use a differencing disk with Hyper-V, as well as the pro and cons of using differencing disks. All the information in this document is relevant to using differencing disks within a Virtual

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Virtual Desktop Scalability

With the recent release of the Hyper-V / Windows 7 / XenDesktop whitepaper I thought it would be a good time to go over just a few points on how you can leverage the scalability reports that have been released by Citrix and other vendors. Citrix intentionally follows the same process for scalability testing so that the results can be used

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Windows 7 Registry Optimizations for Virtual Desktops

The following registry changes are recommended for all deployment scenarios and would almost always be desirable in a Windows 7 hosted VM-based VDI desktop implementation: Configuration Optimizer Registry Modification (in REG format) Disable Last Access Timestamp Yes [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem] “NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate”=dword:00000001 Disable Large Send Offload No [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\BNNS\Parameters] “EnableOffload”=dword:00000000 Disable TCP/IP Offload No [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters] “DisableTaskOffload”=dword:00000001 Increase Service Startup Timeout No [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control] “ServicesPipeTimeout”=dword:0002bf20 Hide

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Customize RDP settings for Virtual Desktops

Microsoft has introduced a new MMC snap-in tool called Remote Desktop Connection Manager in Windows Server 2008 R2 for managing the in-box VDI solution from Microsoft. In this blog, I will explain how you can specify various RDP settings for the virtual desktops published using this tool. You can specify a different set of RDP settings for each type of virtual

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