‘XenDesktop’

• Citrix: Communication Ports Used By Citrix Technologies

  Posted Apr 14 2011 by Kees Baggerman with 0 Comments

  Citrix just posted an updated version of the PDF that describes the communication ports used by Citrix technologies. It’s a good reference document when talking about communications and for example which ports to open on a firewall in order to get proper communication between different …

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• Microsoft and VDI; “Why Hyper-V for VDI whitepaper” and “Jump Start: Microsoft Virtualization & Hyper-V”

  Posted Apr 5 2011 by Kees Baggerman with 0 Comments

  Microsoft is publishing a lot of information about Hyper-V and VDI, last week they did a three day “Jump Start: Microsoft Virtualization & Hyper-V” online event. There was a lot of information about the hypervisor, vm’s, user density, manageability and of course VDI. The description …

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• Citrix: Citrix PVS and BSOD when booting target VM from vDisk

  Posted Mar 31 2011 by Kees Baggerman with 2 Comments

  Yesterday I spend the day setting up a PoC for Citrix Provisioning Services (5.6.1 SP1) with XenDesktop, XenApp 6 and XenApp 5. But we discovered that all of the target VM’s would give a BSOD (0x0000007b meaning: inaccessible boot device) when booting from the vDisk …

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• Citrix: Collection of XenDesktop 5 Documents, KB Articles, Whitepapers etc

  Posted Mar 29 2011 by Kees Baggerman with 0 Comments

  Ronald Grass just posted a really good collection of reference material for XenDesktop:   I don’t know how you feel about all the different sources of information around XenDesktop 5. To me it’s confusing where all the XenDesktop infos are stored and what are the …

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• Citrix: XenDesktop Planning Guide – XenDesktop Scalability

  Posted Mar 23 2011 by Kees Baggerman with 0 Comments

  Citrix just released the XenDesktop Planning Guide – XenDesktop Scalability and these are the results (also from the PDF):   Desktop Controller SQL Database Type Physical server Physical server Operating System Windows 2008 R2 Windows 2008 R2 Product Version XenDesktop 5 SQL Server 2008 SP1 …

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