Posted: 07 Jan 2013 09:38 AM PST

The new Citrix Access Gateway 10.0.71.6014.e release continues to provide concrete value adds to Citrix CloudGateway and Citrix XanApp/XenDesktop users. This new release builds on the existing integration to provide the best remote access solution to your Citrix deployments.

What’s the optimal XenApp 6.5 VM configuration?

Posted: 07 Jan 2013 08:47 AM PST

My last post provided guidance on how to estimate XenApp density based on processor specification and user workload. In the second post of the series, I'm taking a look at the optimal specification for the XenApp virtual machines themselves.

Optimize Windows performance with paravirtualized drivers

Posted: 03 Jan 2013 10:01 AM PST

Paravirtualized drivers are your best bet to optimize Windows performance in RHEV. Unfortunately, this is one feature not available by default.

Release: Citrix VDI-in-a-Box 5.2

Posted: 07 Jan 2013 07:22 AM PST

Citrix has released version 5.2 of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) product: VDI-in-a-box. Citrix acquired the VDI-in-a-box product after acquiring Kaviza in May 2011. VDI-in-a-Box offers an all-in-one VDI solution that doesn't require shared storage and dedicated load balanced connection brokers. It consists of a single virtual appliance that provides all the functionality needed to create, provision, manage, and load balance virtual desktops. The VDI-in-a-Box appliance, known as VDI-in-a-Box Manager or vdiManager, runs as a virtual machine on a hypervisor. vdiManager creates and manages virtual desktops on the local physical server by communicating with the local hypervisor.

Besides supporting the latest hypervisors in this release, Citrix is integrating the VDI-in-a-box products more and more with its existing products, like introducing support for Cloud Gateway and the ability to export images for use with XenDesktop.

Version 5.2 provides the following new features:

Support for the hypervisors available in Windows Server 2012, XenServer 6.1 and vSphere 5.1
Support for StoreFront services provided by Citrix Cloud Gateway
Support for Microsoft Lync
Support for exporting of published images for use with Citrix XenDesktop
Licensing Management using Citrix License Server.
Support for multiple data stores
Support for virtual desktops running Windows Server 2012 (accessible using RDP only)
Automated desktop agent upgrade
Citrix Desktop Lock support.