Virtualization by Davis: “HDX leaps ahead in XenDesktop 7” plus 9 more

HDX leaps ahead in XenDesktop 7
Virtual Desktops: Building a better mousetrap
XenClient CTO Series – Citrix XenClient XT as an open extensible platform of innovation for virtualization systems security
Mastering PowerCLI commands to control VMware vCloud and vSphere
Destination IaaS Open Hybrid Cloud
Introducing Shared Content Store in App-V 5.0
The hidden culprit behind slow vSphere performance -- and how to fix it
Calling All Raspberry Pi Hackers
Last Chance to Register! NetScaler Common Pitfalls Webinar
Citrix boosts VDI with Nvidia GRID vGPU technology

Posted: 29 May 2013 06:12 PM PDT

Citrix's HDX (High Definition Experience) technologies for delivering rich Windows apps to users on any network connection or device are taking a major leap forward in XenDesktop 7, the Excalibur release of project Avalon. Here are a few of the highlights: Professional graphics applications can now be delivered with high performance GPU sharing and H.264-based Deep Compression at frame rates more than 50% higher than…

Virtual Desktops: Building a better mousetrap

Posted: 29 May 2013 05:31 PM PDT

When it comes to building a mouse trap, what is the first thing you think about? Chances are, you don't think about the gauge of wire you're going to be using, or the tension rates for the springs. If you're like me you think about the base needs of the mouse, and how you're going to address them in order to attract the mouse to…

XenClient CTO Series – Citrix XenClient XT as an open extensible platform of innovation for virtualization systems security

Posted: 29 May 2013 04:47 PM PDT

Traditional anti-malware products have suffered from some fundamental flaws that limit their effectiveness. First of all, relying on signatures is, by definition, a reactive approach; there cannot be a signature until the malware exists. Secondly, it is impossible to guarantee detection of malware running with root privileges when the detection system is running at the same privilege level. In other…

Mastering PowerCLI commands to control VMware vCloud and vSphere

Posted: 29 May 2013 09:14 AM PDT

VMware tools increasingly abstract the admin from the underlying virtual infrastructure. To retain granular control, buff up on PowerCLI commands.

Destination IaaS Open Hybrid Cloud

Posted: 28 May 2013 09:00 PM PDT

Bryan Che, General Manager, Cloud Business Unit, Red Hat

Introducing Shared Content Store in App-V 5.0

Posted: 29 May 2013 08:04 AM PDT

Microsoft's own Thamim Karim has a great article on a really cool new feature in App-V 5.0 called Share Content Store. What is Shared Content Store? Shared Content Store in App-V 5.0 allows us to stream directly from a content source without having to stream the package to the local platform. The great thing is App-V 5.0 packages now use a flat file format and are no longer stored collectively in a single cache file, which means we no longer have the read only challenges we faced with the Shared Cache solution in App-V 4.6 when it comes to updating applications and replacing the cache. Want to know more? Check out Thamim's post here.

Additional resources:

How to Install the App-V 5.0 client for Shared Content Store mode

Integrating App-V with Microsoft VDI

J.C. Hornbeck | Knowledge Engineer | Microsoft GBS Management and Security Division

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The hidden culprit behind slow vSphere performance -- and how to fix it

Posted: 29 May 2013 06:04 AM PDT

If you find vSphere performance deteriorating, unintentional resource limits on VMs could be to blame. The good news? They're easy to remove.

Calling All Raspberry Pi Hackers

Posted: 28 May 2013 09:00 PM PDT

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Last Chance to Register! NetScaler Common Pitfalls Webinar

Posted: 29 May 2013 07:18 AM PDT

This is your LAST CHANCE to register for this months webinar in the popular Citrix Support Secrets series. The May webinar covers Common Pitfalls when Setting up a NetScaler for the First Time. The webinar will be delivered by our resident NetScaler guru Ronan O'Brien. Sometimes setting up a NetScaler may seem an impossible. What do you do when you hit a roadblock at an early…

Citrix boosts VDI with Nvidia GRID vGPU technology

Posted: 29 May 2013 08:23 AM PDT

In recent times Nvidia has been investing in the enterprise market rather than its usual HPC environments.
In March the company unveiled its NVIDIA GRID-based server solutions announcing that was working with the major virtualization vendors to offer vGPU accelerated VDI.
Last week, during Citrix Synergy in Los Angeles, Citrix finally announced the integration of NVIDIA GRID vGPU in its XenDesktop 7 solution which potentially represents a big step forward in VDI experience for the end users.
In working environments where BYOD is becoming day after day more important, benefit of full graphic acceleration independently from the device used to access enterprise applications, could advantage not only graphic intensive applications but the general desktop experience of the users.

From what reported in the press release, XenDesktop 7 takes advantage of HDX GPU sharing and compression techniques to deliver graphics-intensive applications, using the Microsoft Windows Server RDSH can also be enabled the sharing of GPUs across multiple user sessions. Citrix XenServer can also use NVIDIA GRID vGPU technology to allow the sharing of GPUs across multiple virtual machines.

Labels: Citrix, NVIDIA, VDI