A couple of months ago I wrote a blog post on VMware’s CBRC and Microsoft’s CSV Cache which are both memory caching technologies. I got a couple of questions why I didn’t write about Citrix’s Intellicache.
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Archive for XenDesktop
Solving disk latency: Disk or memory based caching?
How to configure Citrix Multistream ICA
Just recently I was asked to advice in a situation with saturated lines on a Citrix XenApp 6.5 configuration with hundreds of different locations. With XenApp 6.5 and XenDesktop 5.5, with Receiver 3.0 (including Online Plugin 13.0), Citrix introduced support for true network based Quality of Service (QoS) to the ICA or HDX protocol so one of the options was to do QoS on the connections to the datacenters
How to hide the Citrix PVS System Tray icon per user
While working on a vDisk for Windows 2008R2 with XenApp 6.5 based on Citrix Provisioning Services I got a remark that people could see the Citrix PVS Target Tools icon in the system tray and this could be confusing for the end user as they are presented information that is useless to them.
Category: Workspace Manager, XenApp, XenDesktop |
Tags: Citrix, GPP, PVS, RES Software, WorkspaceManager
How to add Google Search Provider with RES Workspace Manager
During my latest (and greatest) project I got the request to add Google as default search provider to Internet Explorer. Luckily I was able to leverage RES Workspace Manager to add the search provider in Internet Explorer.
Category: RDS, TS, Workspace Manager, XenApp, XenDesktop |
Tags: Citrix, RES Software, Workspace Manager
Creating a Load Balanced Citrix StoreFront 2.0 Server Group with Citrix NetScaler 10.1
A while ago Dane Young posted an excellent blogpost on the ITVCE site on how to create a load balanced multi-node Citrix StoreFront 2.0 server group with the Citrix NetScaler 10.1. You can find the blog post over here: http://blog.itvce.com/?p=4605
Hyper-V CSV Cache competing with VMware CBRC?
Yesterday I got intrigued by a tweet from Andre Leibovici linking to this article stating that Citrix employees (sales) are leaving Citrix for VMware, in the article he explains why they’re swapping Citrix for VMware. Andre states ‘ The main reason for the vendor move according to these new VMware employees was the vSphere stack’ and goes on about features in the vSphere stack that are only leveraged by Horizon View. Read more
