Blog posts tagged with 'xendesktop'
Citrix technologies have been around for almost 20 years, we have helped other companies to stay on their feet during time of economic crisis by implementing access and application virtualization technologies that not only helped them succeed with their business needs but also reduced their operational costs.
With the economy outlook looking so obscure, companies have begun seeking for new ways to reduce costs while challenged to provide their customers with unchanged level of services and products.
Understanding what technologies to invest in times like this can be crucial decision; while researching some market trends I stumbled upon a recent post on ZDNet by Dan Kusnetzky with the title "Can virtualization help when times get tough?"
After a brief analysis Dan pointed our six ways virtualization can help a company financially, here they are:
- Access virtualization, such as that offered by Citrix and Microsoft, can make it possible for administrative and operational cost reductions while still making needed applications available in a secure, reliable way.
- Application virtualization, such as that offered by Citrix, Microsoft and many others, can make it possible for applications to be made available to staff members in a reliable way and even make it easier to update these applications without having to visit each and every laptop or desktop computer.
- Processing virtualization, such as that offered by Citrix, IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, Virtual Iron and many others can either allow many machines to work together to get tasks done more quickly to optimize staff member's time or consolidate tasks onto a smaller number of physical machines. This approach can result in hardware, software, operational and administrative cost reductions.
- Network virtualization can make it possible to reduce the costs of administrative and operating costs.
- Storage virtualization can do for storage what processing virtualization does for processing.
- Management and security software for virtualized environments may be the area having the biggest opportunity for cost reduction.
Citrix was mentioned not once or twice, but at least 3 times and shows how we've managed to grow exponentially our portfolio; Citrix is now more than ever the ONLY end-to-end virtualization company from Network (NetScaler, WanScaler), Server (XenServer, Provisioning Server), Application (XenApp) all the way to Desktop (XenDesktop).
To compliment the great work done by Dan pointing out the values of virtualization, I will list below some extra reading that can help you define the best strategy to save money while using virtualization technologies:
The Economic Impact of Provisioning Server Streaming Platform
This study describes the financial impact of moving from a traditional datacenter environment, where individual servers are dedicated to specific functions, to an environment where applications and content are streamed to an individual server that exists in a pool of shared servers dynamically using Provisioning Server.
Virtual Desktop ROI Calculator
Calculate your savings with a desktop delivery solution you can take to the bank!
Green IT: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint with Citrix
This white paper explains how Citrix solutions can help bring environmental and organizational objectives into alignment, by alleviating the energy impact of equipment needed to serve both the datacenter and the desktop.
For more, visit: Citrix.com/Solutions
Best,
Gus
PS. Sorry if some of the links require a sign up; I hate signing up for stuff, but these docs are totally worth it...
...And don't forget to check out Chris Fleck's posts about Cloud Economics:
Now that XenDesktop is out and about, you can certainly tell that users will be experimenting with multiple different settings and scenarios, exposing it to some unknown deltas.
Enabling verbose logging on XenDesktop can help you better understand what goes on behind the scene and troubleshoot issues.
There are three component to be enabled with verbose logging within XenDesktop: Delivery Controller, VM Manager, and Workstation agent.
The procedure is exactly the same for all three components, just follow these simple steps:
Desktop Delivery Controller
1) Create a new directory (ex. "C:\CDS")
2) Change security settings to allow Network Services and Local Service "Full Control" over the new folder.
3) Open the following ".exe.config" files in a text editor:
C:\Program Files\Citrix\Desktop Delivery Controller\cdscontroller.exe.config
C:\Program Files\Citrix\VMManagemenet\CdsPoolMgr.exe.config
4) Modify the following section, change the <logFilename> variable, specifying a file within your new directory:
<appSettings>
<add key="LogToCDF" value ="1"/>
<add key="LogFileName" value ="C:\CDS\<logfilename>.log"/>
</appSettings>
5) Finally, reboot your server to start logging.
Workstation Agents:
1) Create a new directory (ex. "C:\CDS")
2) Change security settings to allow Network Services and Local Service "Full Control" over the new folder.
3) Open the following ".exe.config" file in a text editor:
C:\Program Files\Citrix\Virtual Workstation Agent\WorkstationAgent.exe.config
4) Modify the following section, changing the <logfilename> variable, specifying a file within your new directory:
<appSettings>
<add key="LogToCDF" value ="1"/>
<add key="LogFileName" value ="C:\CDS\<logfilename>.log"/>
</appSettings>
5) Finally, reboot your workstation to start logging.
You have probably seen the latest buzz on the street, an iPhone "running" Windows XP. This topic made big news this week as a story published by ZDNet Australia landed on the home of Digg.com.
The word "running" was loosely mentioned and that sparked a lot of controversy around visitors, but if we take a minute to explain the "phenomena", you will see there's nothing behind the curtains nor up the magician's sleeve. It's purely a high performance remote desktop (HPRD) being delivered via ICA, Citrix remoting technology protocol.
The demo mentioned above was delivered by our fellow Citrites in Australia, very similar to the one Mark Templeton showed us during his keynote early this year at the Citrix Summit.
So for those outraged with the Windows XP "running" on a "slow" processor like iPhone's, I say - you can all relax, the actual processing was done on a back-end virtual desktop and remotely delivered via Citrix XenDesktop.
Also the article mentioned above only posted a still image of the entire demo; so for those who are interested to see the full demo - here it is, the 5 minutes and 20 seconds-long XenDesktop demo "running" on an iPhone.
Citrix has released a new version of the ICA client for Mac OS X users.
As pointed out by our colleague Danny Wannagat, this release includes fixes for XenDesktop connections.
DOWNLOAD CLIENT | ReadMe | Admin Guide
Version 10.00.601 - Universal Binary English 6/5/08 5.0 MB .dmg.zip
This is an in-depth look on Virtual Desktop provisioning and lifecycle management using XenDesktop technologies.
cheers,
Gus Pinto
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Check out this quick tech-jive put together by the XenDesktop product group showing how close to a physical desktop your virtual desktop experience can be when delivered the right way.
cheers,
Gus Pinto
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OMG! This is way too funny. I really don't know who's behind the Caveman mask, but this video is just hilarious.
I can't help notice Derek trying not to laugh - standing on the corner while the "caveman" dances and talks about XenDesktop. LOL
cheers,
Gus
In this chat with the XenDesktop program team, we chat more about VDI and what it represents as well as some of the core functionalies of XenDesktop. I didn't forget to ask some hard questions around princing and why users should choose XenDesktop over other VDI solutions.
Cheers,
Gus Pinto
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Check out this video excerpt from Citrix Summit 08 of Citrix Delivery Center and its amazingly fast and easy provisioning of application workloads to virtual and physical servers. Presented by Pete Downing and Brad Peterson.
Citrix has set a launch date and pricing for its desktop virtualization platform.
XenDesktop will start shipping May 20, at the Citrix Synergy conference. The company will offer three versions: Standard, Enterprise and Platinum. The latter will include more advanced management tools, including EdgeSight Monitoring, to keep track of how the system performs.
Pricing will begin at $75 per concurrent user.
Citrix calls XenDesktop a desktop delivery solution, which allows companies to virtualize Windows desktops in the datacenter and then deliver them on demand to office workers in any location.
The promise is to lower complexity and management costs by as much as by 40 percent compared to a traditional desktop, according to Citrix.
To do that Citrix wants to separate the management of operating systems and applications, which will solve the problem of virtual desktop "image sprawl".
XenDesktop will centrally manage the operating systems: end users will get a new desktop at each login.
"If you take the applications out of the equation you'll be able to use the same image for thousands of users, instead of one for every user," said Dave Austin, director of product marketing at Citrix in EMEA.
The centralization of the desktop will also offer significant improvements to traditional Citrix customers.
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