‘Provisioning Services’

• Departmental apps with RES Automation Manager

  Posted Feb 3 2012 by Barry Schiffer with 2 Comments

  When working in Enterprise or even multi tenancy environments we would still like to maintain a single image for our entire infrastructure. This will ensure a lower TCO and have a simple and easy to use platform to maintain. When we started working on our …

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• How to satisfy your Citrix XenApp/Desktop users?

  Posted Dec 29 2011 by Barry Schiffer with 0 Comments

  Over the last few years we have worked with a lot of customers and partners who use(d) Citrix products. Not all of them are, to say the least, “happy” with it. My article focuses on “how did that happen?”. It all started some years ago …

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• PVS or MCS – What to do?

  Posted Nov 24 2011 by Barry Schiffer with 2 Comments

  Earlier this year Daniel Feller wrote a great blog article on how to choose between PVS and MCS. This article can be found here. With the release of the XenServer Intellicache feature and Provisioning Services 6.0 the question is “Is the decision tree still valid”? …

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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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• A quick look at Citrix Provisioning Services 6

  Posted Jun 25 2011 by Barry Schiffer with 1 Comment

  One of the sessions on Citrix Synergy was all about Citrix Provisioning Services. I watched it online and was wowed because the session was all about the next version of Citrix Provisioning Services version 6.0.

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