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- StoreFront Planning Guide: When, Why, How to use StoreFront in your environment? StoreFront is around for some time already and it will replace Web Interface in the near future. So it's a good time to learn about this technology and to start thinking about this may enhance/change your existing infrastructure. This white paper explains StoreFront in detail and guide you through the major design decisions.
- Citrix Virtual Desktop Handbook 5.x: The initial release of white paper provides step-by-step guidance, real world examples and templates for the Assess phase of a desktop virtualization project. In the next releases, which will become available later this year, detailed guidance for the Design and Deploy phases will be added.
- XenDesktop and Microsoft Hyper-V - Planning Guide: The virtualization platform and their integration with XenDesktop is a crucial facet of every VDI infrastructure. This document provides an architectural reference and related guidelines as well as detailed information about guest OS delivery and management aspects.
- Provisioning Services Networking - Planning Guide: The network infrastructure is a vital aspect of any Provisioning Services environment. This paper guides you through the planning process and provides you with related best practices and recommendations.
- Security Guidelines for Virtual Desktops: Securing a virtual desktop can be a challenging task, since we have to find the right balance between usability, functionality and security. This document discusses the available security related technologies and features and provides recommendations as well as sample configuration for multiple scenarios.
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XenApp and XenDesktop Printing Planning Guide: Looking for a way to optimize your printing infrastructure? Trying to get a detailed understanding of the Microsoft and Citrix printing technologies? This paper covers all of them and helps you planning an optimal printing solution for your organization.
- Planning Guide - XenApp and XenDesktop Policies: This white paper discusses strategies for planning, applying and filtering policies and provides a number of sample policies.
- Remote PC - Reference Architecture / Showcase Design / Deployment Checklist: These documents provide you with all technical information required for designing and implementing Remote PC in an enterprise environment.
- Operations Guide - Support and Maintenance: Ever wondered how to support and maintain your XenDesktop environment? This paper covers activities that should be completed.
- Operations Guide - Monitoring: Being able to keep a virtual desktop environment running smoothly requires proper monitoring of the critical components. This paper discusses what to monitor.
- Operations Guide - Managing virtual desktops with Splunk: Splunk's monitoring solution can simplify monitoring and managing virtual desktops. This paper outlines the functionality of each Splunk component and discussed how they can be integrated into an existing XenDesktop infrastructure.
- Personal vDisk Planning Guide: Personal vDisk allows an organization to provide complete user personalization in a VDI type enviornment where users can share a common desktop image. This planning guide tells you what you need to know.
- XenDesktop Modular Architecture: Are you tired of "It depends"? Consulting developed a modularized XenDesktop architecture based on a validated block size. To scale up, you simply add more blocks to your environment. Massive scalability and risk mitigation.
- Optimization Guide: Logon: The logon is the first experience users will have with the environment. If it takes too long, users will already have a bad impression of the environment. This paper covers how to optimize the logon process.
- Implementation Guide: TFTP Load Balancing: Provides recommendations on how to provide fault tolerance for TFTP services. The focus is based on Provisioning Services and is relevant for XenApp and XenDesktop deployments.
- XenDesktop Implementation Guide for XenServer or vSphere or Hyper-V - These guides are step-by-step run books that guide an administrator through the process of configuring XenDesktop with MCS for local and remote users.
- XenDesktop Planning Guide for vSphere or XenServer - These guides provide some of the key implementation recommendations for configuring XenDesktop with either vSphere or XenServer. Each hypervisor is addressed individually within its own individual guide.
- Citrix HDX Multi-Stream and Branch Repeater Traffic Shaping ? This guide provides deployment use cases exhibiting performance gains for customers and configuration details to implement HDX Multi-Stream with Branch Repeater Traffic Shaping.
- XenDesktop Storage Best Practices ? best practices, recommendations and performance related tips that cover the most critical areas of storage integration with Citrix XenDesktop
- Reducing Session Startup Times Using Epic Pool Manager - This whitepaper outlines the functionality and login process architecture of Epic Pool Manager with Citrix XenApp and provides instructions on how to install, configure, and troubleshooting Epic Pool Manager with a Citrix XenApp environment.
- XenApp Virtualization Best Practices ? resource allocation and design tips to maximize scalability while still providing an adequate use experience for running Hosted Shared Desktops
- XenDesktop 5 Scalability Planning Guide ? practical, real-world sizing recommendations derived from "scalability tests" from controlled lab environments that can be used for high-level planning purposes.
- User Profile Planning Guide ? guidelines to use during the XenApp or XenDesktop architecture design phase to help choose the optimal user profile strategy.
- Citrix Branch Repeater VPX Scalability Analysis ? considerations when using Branch Repeater VPX to optimize HDX traffic for delivering virtual desktops with XenDesktop
- XenDesktop and vSphere Architecture Overview ? high-level architecture showing how the two components fit together to create a desktop delivery solution
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Coming Soon
- Citrix Virtual Desktop Handbook - Phase II: When designing a virtual desktop architecture a large number of design decisions for a broad variety of Citrix products have to be considered. The next version of this white paper will provide information about every single decision and guide you through the full design process. Along the way real world examples will provide insights into the Citrix architectures of some of our largest customers.
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Daniel Feller
Lead Architect - Worldwide Consulting Solutions
Based in Minneapolis, I help organizations design the next-gen desktop by providing architectures and recommendations for desktop and application virtualization. Many of the lessons learned are discussed on the Virtualize My Desktop site (http://VirtualFeller.com). Prior to joining Citrix in 2000, I worked as a technical analyst at Cargill, deploying Citrix solutions internally. I received my bachelor's degree from Purdue University.
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Andy Baker
Architect - Worldwide Consulting Solutions
Based in Bethesda, Maryland, I am a member or the Citrix Worldwide Consulting Solutions team and played a key role in the development of the Desktop Transformation Model. Before relocating to the United States in 2011, I worked as a Citrix consultant in the UK where he led some of the region?s largest and most high-profile projects. Prior to joining Citrix in 2004, I spent five years working for Unisys as a virtualization specialist.
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Dimitrios Samorgiannidis
Architect - EMEA Consulting
I'm well known for solving complex issues across the full range of Citrix products. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, I drive infrastructure assessments, enterprise designs, proof of concepts, cost benefit analyses and desktop transformation projects throughout EMEA. Prior to joining Citrix in 2006,. I spent five years working for Guide, proposing, designing and implementing Citrix and Microsoft products. I hold numerous certifications and have more than 17 years of experience in the IT industry.
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Nicholas Rintalan
Sr. Architect - Americas Consulting
I am a Senior Architect in the Americas Consulting organization based out of Santa Clara, CA. I have been with Citrix Consulting for the last 7 years, working on some of the largest XenApp and XenDesktop deployments in the world. Before joining Citrix, I briefly worked for the IBM Software Group on the WebSphere development team. I received Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Computer Engineering from Tulane University in New Orleans.
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Holger Fuessler
Architect - EMEA Consulting
Based in the southern part of Germany, I am member of the Citrix Consulting Team in Central Europe. I have a strong networking background which is why I'm focusing on Citrix's networking products such as NetScaler and Repeater.
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Ivan Lorente Salas
Principal Consultant - EMEA Consulting
I work as a principal consultant, reference architect and project manager, leading projects in the Spanish market. In my five years at Citrix, I have been involved with large and strategic projects all over EMEA, taking on roles from team lead to business development manager. Prior to joining Citrix, I worked with Citrix technologies for five years as a consultant at HP. I holdsa degree in computer science.
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Martin Zugec
Principal Consultant - EMEA Consulting
Based in Dubai, I've enjoyed delivering the virtual desktops all around the globe since 2005. My previous experience (ex-MVP for Windows Server Deployment and ex-MVP for Powershell) prepared me well for any tasks that require automation or innovative approach, while my experience of working for one of the largest enterprises in the world has tought me how to look at IT from the business perspective.
Prior to joining Citrix, I've spent years as both Citrix partner, Citrix customer and Citrix freelancer, preparing for the most exciting job in my life so far.
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Dan Allen
Lead Architect - Americas Consulting
I works as a Lead Architect on the Citrix Consulting team, implementing Citrix solutions for customers. I joined Citrix Consulting in 2001, but have been implementing Citrix solutions for customers since 1998, when I first got certified on WinFrame 1.7. Prior to joining Citrix, I worked for one of the first Citrix partners in Pennsylvania.
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Thomas Berger
Architect - Worldwide Consulting Solutions
Based in Zurich, Switzerland, I am a member of the Citrix Worldwide Consulting Solutions team and am focused on desktop virtualization using Citrix XenApp or Citrix XenDesktop. I joined Citrix in 2004 as a consultant within the EMEA consulting organization, where I worked on numerous customer projects by assessing, designing and building enterprise-level architectures to successfully deliver desktops and applications using Citrix technologies. In January 2011 I moved to Worldwide Consulting Solutions.
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Rich Meesters
Architect - Worldwide Consulting Solutions
Based in Toronto, Canada, I am an architect on the Citrix Worldwide Consulting Solutions team. I have been a member of
the Citrix team since December 2010. Prior to joining Citrix, I spent
ten years at IBM doing everything from IT Consulting on Microsoft technologies
to Technical Business Development for Desktop Virtualization and Cloud.
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