I attended the SDDC roadshow in March and VMware announced that 2013 would be the year of VDI and Software defined Data Center but I heard Tikiri Wanduragala (IBM) saying it would be the year of converged infrastructure and my first response was: “2013 is going to be a busy year…”
Archive for May 24, 2013
2013 is the year of… Converged Infrastructure?
Citrix Summit and Synergy 2013 @Anaheim
As many of you may know this week Citrix Summit and Synergy are held in Anaheim, USA. I couldn’t schedule it in as I was planning to go to Barcelona and we all know what happened to that plan.
Category: Access Gateway, Citrix, EdgeSight, NetScaler, StoreFront, XenApp, XenDesktop |
Tags: Citrix, Summit, Synergy
VMware vSphere 5.1 Update 1 Fix: No values for CPU and Memory in the ESXi 5.x host
After an upgrade of VMware 4.1 to VMware vSphere 5.1 Update 1 one of my colleagues Wilbert Kandt noticed that the environment wasn’t properly load balanced. The problem was that an ESXi host wasn’t used as destination within a VMware DRS cluster after a while.
A review of the new 10Zig 5818v WE8 Thin Client
10Zig 5818v
A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by 10Zig to do a review of their newest and latest thin client, the 10Zig 5818v WE8 Thin Client and as you may (or may not) know me, I’m always curious to see what’s new in modern days technology.
Category: Citrix, EUC, Microsoft, RDS, StoreFront, TS, VMware, Web Interface, XenApp, XenDesktop |
Tags: 10Zig, Review, Thin Clients
Demystifying Citrix Excalibur Architecture
For all XenApp admins and consultants out there Project Avalon will bring a big change as we are used to having XenApp servers running on the (what seemed to be) everlasting Citrix Independent Management Architecture and we’re heading to Citrix FlexCast Management Architecture (already included in XenDesktop at this moment) and will be included in the Citrix Excalibur Architecture.
Citrix NetScaler Access Gateway What’s the real amount of ICA proxy users you can handle?
Yesterday Barry Schiffer posted a new blog titled Citrix NetScaler Access Gateway What’s the real amount of ICA proxy users you can handle? which is a result of conversations he had with a couple of great minds of this industry and basically he’s doing some research on how many users your remote access device can handle and what kind of certificate you’re using.
Category: Access Gateway, Citrix, NetScaler, StoreFront, Web Interface |
Tags: Access Gateway, Citrix, NetScaler
