Post Contributions from ‘Dane Young’

• Installing and Configuring Citrix Desktop Director 2.0 for use with XenApp 6.5

  Posted Dec 9 2011 by Dane Young with 15 Comments

  If you’re anything like me, the minute you heard that Desktop Director 2.0 would now integrate with XenApp 6.5, you became all excited!  If you haven’t used or seen Desktop Director yet, you are in for a treat! If you’ve tried configuring an existing Desktop …

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• Rapid Provisioning vSphere ESXi 5.0 Hosts Using Image Builder and Auto Deploy (Part 1)

  Posted Nov 25 2011 by Dane Young with 3 Comments

  If you haven’t heard or read some of the new capabilities in vSphere 5 around rapid provisioning hosts, allow me to introduce you to Auto Deploy (previously Fling).  Auto Deploy is a PXE boot process that loads ESXi into memory thereby eliminating any need for …

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• Implementing a Multi-Node Hypervisor Cluster on a Single Desktop Running VMware Workstation 8

  Posted Oct 8 2011 by Dane Young with 6 Comments

  As a field consultant for the last several years, I have been amazed at the numerous deployment scenarios that can be reproduced utilizing just one piece of physical hardware. Due to increasingly expensive electrical bills I trimmed down my server class lab hardware nearly a …

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• Installing Citrix NetScaler nCore VPX 9.3 and Access Gateway Enterprise Edition in VMware Workstation for Evaluation Purposes

  Posted Aug 13 2011 by Dane Young with 2 Comments

  Several months ago I blogged about installing Access Gateway VPX Express in VMware Workstation. I recently realized that while this post has received numerous hits and comments, a more valuable blog post would focus on installing NetScaler nCore VPX and Access Gateway Enterprise Edition in …

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• Provisioning Services Shared Volumes Using Read-Only Managed Stores

  Posted Jun 26 2011 by Dane Young with 4 Comments

  When discussing options for vDisk storage placement and provisioning services there are two primary options: Block-based attached storage (Locally attached, iSCSI, FC, FCoE) and network attached storage (CIFS or NFS). One of the best resources to understand the advantages of Block-Based attached storage and NTFS …

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