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 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
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
Citrix published an interesting article about using hosted shared desktops or hosted virtual desktops. The debate still rages on, Hosted Shared or Hosted Virtual desktops. So which is it? Hosted Shared or Hosted Virtual? Guess what? The answer, for once, isn’t “It Depends”. The answer is “Yes”, you will mostly likely need them both. For those of you who aren’t
Citrix is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of XenDesktop 5 for download from MyCitrix, or the XenDesktop 5 Express Edition here. With XenDesktop 5, Citrix redefines desktop virtualization forever changing the way IT delivers applications and desktops to business users. XenDesktop combines the flexibility, user experience, and scale you expect from the industry’s leading desktop virtualization infrastructure while making
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
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.
