Virtualization by Davis: “Removing stale applications” plus 13 more

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• Removing stale applications
• VMware plans to abandon vRAM Licensing
• VMware Offers vCloud “Test-Drive” with New Evaluation Service
• HP and Citrix VDI-in-a-Box: Part 3 – User Experience Testing
• Measuring User Experience
• “From Wow to How 3″ Online Presentation – 8/22
• Meet Citrix Geek of the Week – Andrew Wood
• Rapidly growing from a smaller to mainstream enterprise? Need a scalable ADC appliance? No Problem
• VMware attempts to win vCloud customers with paid eval service
• Proving Consistency for Applications Across a Hybrid Cloud
• virtualize outlook issue
• Customizing Receiver for Web in StoreFront 1.2
• Location of client log file in App-V 5.0 beta 2
• App-V 4.6 clients do not update calender information in meeting rooms

Removing stale applications Posted: 21 Aug 2012 01:21 AM PDT Hi Guys, I have removed some applications/packages from my App-V server but they still show up on the client list and cause errors to be written to the event log needlessly. How do I refresh the client so it only sees currently published applications? I thought an sfttray /refresh would do the tirck but no joy. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

VMware plans to abandon vRAM Licensing Posted: 21 Aug 2012 02:51 AM PDT Yesterday CRN reported that, according to their sources "familiar with VMware's plans", VMware is going to discontinue vRAM licensing program with the introduction of vSphere 5.1. Abandoning the vRAM entitlement (that proved to be very unpopular among the community) for its previous CPU-based licensing model, VMware will keep vSphere competitive against the new release of Hyper-V 3 enriched with several enterprise-class features. A lot of customers feel like they are being nickel-and-dimed on things, which hurts the cost model of virtualization, so VMware is going to aggressively bundle. That bundle scheme made little sense with vRAM. said a source of CRN, who requested anonymity. We expect the announcement during VMworld in San Francisco next week where VMware will unveil its official licensing plans, these could include bundled licenses and special package with cloud products. Labels: Licensing, VMware, vSphere

VMware Offers vCloud “Test-Drive” with New Evaluation Service Posted: 17 Aug 2012 01:04 PM PDT On August 15th, vCloud, the cloud computing initiative from VMware announced to offer a vCloud Service Evaluation which allows customers to "test-drive" a cloud built on the VMware platform. The idea of VMware is that the vCloud Service Evaluation would give to potential VMware customers the chances to "test drive" a cloud built on the VMware vCloud platform and to existing clients to evaluate vCloud features, as well as support for apps and virtual machines that VMware customers already have. VMware strategy is to attract more potential customers giving them a free try and allowing systems admins to learn about the capabilities of vCloud. Obviously this approach to intrigue possible new purchasers was approved by VMware services providers such as AT&T and Attenda. The vCloud Service Evaluation gives customers the opportunity to add an enterprise cloud to their infrastructure and migrate workloads between existing private cloud, the vCloud Service Evaluation, and VMware's extensive ecosystem of service providers. Customers can register for VMware vCloud Service Evaluation, and beta invites will be sent out starting August 27, 2012, besides VMware will offer to try directly the service at the cloud services pod, within the VMware booth, at the VMworld in San Francisco. CONTINUE READING ON CLOUDCOMPUTING.INFO… Labels: vCloud, VMware

HP and Citrix VDI-in-a-Box: Part 3 – User Experience Testing Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:11 PM PDT In two recent blogs I described testing I performed to validate a Citrix VDI-in-a-Box and HP ProLiant reference architecture. The solution goes a long way to simplify the task of VDI deployment since it defines a low-cost, cookie-cutter approach for rapidly deploying VDI. Previously I ran a set of single server scalability tests to validate 50- and 100-user configurations based on the reference architecture, as… Read More

Measuring User Experience Posted: 20 Aug 2012 02:42 PM PDT My role in the Citrix Alliance Group focuses on performance testing, especially for VDI and SBC reference architectures developed in conjunction with alliance partners. I spend the bulk of my time developing and validating reference architectures so that customers can deploy Citrix solutions quickly with less risk. While you might think my job  sounds like mind-numbing number-crunching, I get tremendously jazzed about it and the… Read More

“From Wow to How 3″ Online Presentation – 8/22 Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:36 AM PDT Learn all the How of Mobile Workstyles & Cloud Services from Citrix, Microsoft, HP & AppSense. Due to popular demand, we're bringing you "From Wow to How 3″ in an online event format that includes a panel discussion moderated by Bruce Hoard, Editor-in-Chief of Virtualization Review, and an extended Q&A session with experts from Citrix, Microsoft, HP and AppSense – so you can get all… Read More

Meet Citrix Geek of the Week – Andrew Wood Posted: 20 Aug 2012 11:06 AM PDT             Greetings Community! The "Geek of the Week" blog series highlights one of our exceptional community members each week, so you can get to know more about them, and what they do in and for the community!       Our Geek of the Week is:   Andrew Wood - Independent Consultant at Gilwood CS - Analyst at The Virtualization Practice  Sunderland, UK… Read More

Rapidly growing from a smaller to mainstream enterprise? Need a scalable ADC appliance? No Problem Posted: 20 Aug 2012 09:45 AM PDT As a successful entrepreneur you must minimize capital outlays and keep a tight leash on IT budgets. One great way to do this is to prevent forklift upgrades at all costs. Well, Citrix NetScaler has you covered with a cost effective application delivery controller (ADC) that scales from entry level needs to midsize enterprise capacity requirements. On a single NetScaler MPX 8000 series, Layer 7… Read More

VMware attempts to win vCloud customers with paid eval service Posted: 16 Aug 2012 05:27 AM PDT VMware tries to jump-start its public cloud with a simple test-drive service, but it?s unclear if it will make the vCloud engine roar to life.

Proving Consistency for Applications Across a Hybrid Cloud Posted: 19 Aug 2012 09:00 PM PDT Cloud Computing Team

virtualize outlook issue Posted: 20 Aug 2012 07:47 AM PDT I have App-v 4.6 server environment that running most of my application, including Outlook 2010. it was working fine till recently. for certain clients outlook free busy information on meeting rooms are not displayed. also calender do not update and schedule assistance do not function.  this issue is happening only to certain users and when that user log in on different computer issue not rising. also after i delete the profile and recreate it getting solved too. but keep rising after some time. i had checked clients sftlog.txt and stf-server.log, but couldn't find any errors. also i ran the App-V-Ping tool on client but everything seems to be normal. Pls help us This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Customizing Receiver for Web in StoreFront 1.2 Posted: 20 Aug 2012 07:50 AM PDT StoreFront 1.2 has been released recently which contains a new version of Receiver for Web. I think it is time for me to provide a follow-up for my first blog on Customizing Receiver for Web. This is to show how to update the original customization to work with the new release and to describe the extra customization support provided by the new release. Updating Customization… Read More

Location of client log file in App-V 5.0 beta 2 Posted: 20 Aug 2012 04:45 AM PDT Can anyone tell me the location of the client log information in App-V 5.0 beta 2? I have searched for the location of the former sftlog.txt file, but am not locating it... and there doesn't seem to be any information logged in the application event log. Thanks! This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

App-V 4.6 clients do not update calender information in meeting rooms Posted: 20 Aug 2012 03:49 AM PDT Hi I have App-v 4.6 server environment that running most of my application, including Outlook 2010. it was working fine till recently. for certain clients outlook free busy information on meeting rooms are not displayed. also calender do not update and schedule assistance do not function.  this issue is happening only to certain users and when that user log in on different computer issue not rising. also after i delete the profile and recreate it getting solved too. but keep rising after some time. i had checked clients sftlog.txt and stf-server.log, but couldn't find any errors. also i ran the App-V-Ping tool on client but everything seems to be normal. any clues ? please let me know any answer u all have.  Thanks. Asitha This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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