Application delivery insights since 2011.
A recent discussion highlighted that Citrix MCSIO is not supported on Nutanix AHV, which is unnecessary due to AHV’s efficient native I/O paths. AHV’s oplog and shadow clones effectively manage write and read operations at the hypervisor level without requiring guest-level drivers, thus eliminating the issues MCSIO addresses on other hypervisors.
There are two ways to run a cloud desktop on Microsoft Azure. In the first, Microsoft manages the infrastructure entirely: Windows 365 delivers Cloud PCs sized in vCPUs and RAM, and the VM type, CPU generation, and physical host are Microsoft’s decisions, not yours. In the second, you provision Azure Virtual Desktop yourself: you pick…
Hyperscalers fill racks with CPUs at launch, depreciate them over five to seven years, then charge you the same price while pocketing an ever-growing margin. The EUC industry is along for the ride — and the bill is about to increase.
There’s a running joke in my lab: every application I’m writing is named after a fruit. The naming convention is non-negotiable. What is negotiable, apparently, is the scope of what ends up inside those innocently named containers. Apple monitors system state and diffs snapshots engineered to avoid 30 MB of transient heap allocations. Lime orchestrates…
One of the questions I get asked most often after a Nutanix engagement is: “Can you give us a report of what we have?” Up until recently, the honest answer was “yes, but it takes a while to make it look decent.” With v5.0 of the Nutanix Documentation Script, that excuse is gone. The script…
After writing this blogpost on Adding a persistent disk via Powershell with Citrix MCS running on Nutanix AHV I got an email from one of our senior system architects, he asked me about this configuration so I shared the blogpost with him and his customer to find out that this customer…
