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Citrix XenServer 5.6 Beta

Тем кто спрашивал - "Ну когда же Citrix Systems выпустит следующую версию Citrix XenServer?" Отвечаю - скоро! Сейчас Вы можете скачать Бета версию Citrix XenServer 5.6 и ознакомиться с тем новым функционалом, который появится в финальном...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2010 5:33 PM by The Citrix Blogs Feed

Filed under: xenserver, citrix_russia, lang-ru

It's Clear That It's Cloudy

It's clear that it's cloudy - and that's good! As I prepare to go over to the Cloud Connect conference, I ask myself "what are the trends - as they relate to all of us". More to the point, what are the applications, their access...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2010 4:28 PM by The Citrix Blogs Feed

Filed under: xenserver, xenapp, xendesktop, netscaler, receiver, lang-eng, access-gateway, xenserver_virtualization_cloud_agee_netscaler_repeater_wanscaler_xendesktop

Partners - Enter the Virtual Computing Demo Contest

Win a XenClient compatible Dell Latitude E6400 ATG Laptop! Rise to the challenge and compete in this year's Citrix Virtual Computing Demo Contest. This contest showcases the innovative and compelling ways in which partners demo Citrix industry-leading...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2010 10:25 AM by The Citrix Blogs Feed

Filed under: xenserver, xenapp, xendesktop, netscaler, nonspecific, lang-eng, essentials-hyper-v, branch-repeater, access-gateway, partners_demo_demonstration_desktop_virtualization

理想的Citrix桌面虚拟环境之3 - 高可用性XenServer环境

高可用性的XenServer环境应包括最少两台XenServer服务器和一个共享存储设备。XenServer的硬件，我采用的是Dell PowerEdge R710，内存加至16GB。iSCSI的存储设备则用下面4种硬/软件设备构成: 一台旧PC(Dell PowerEdge SC1420,内存加至4GB)装上windows 2003，再装上SANmelody Highpoint的RAID卡RocketRAID2314 Century的支持e-SATA的外置硬盘抽取盒EX35PM8B-PE 8块500G的SATA内置硬盘...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2010 5:15 AM by The Citrix Blogs Feed

Filed under: xenserver, xenapp, xendesktop, access-gateway, lang-ch

Cutting Through the Hype in Desktop Virtualization

No, this is not a posting about Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) or even PCI device pass-through in Xen. It's about acknowledging that in the area of Desktop Virtualization there remains much to be done by all vendors to convince customers...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2010 9:54 PM by The Citrix Blogs Feed

Filed under: xenserver, xendesktop, lang-eng, team-executive-cto, essentials-hyper-v

VM best practices

Hi XenServer Community, Some things strike me as common sense. Here are some personal recommendations for VM best pracitices ... 1. No screen savers (however still good to lock virtual screen). 2. No power saving (i.e. turn monitor off after 20 mins)...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2010 10:10 AM by The Citrix Blogs Feed

Filed under: xenserver, lang-eng

Out now: New VRC paper "TS on next-gen hypervisors and hardware"

Wow, this took a little longer than expected. No.. actually this actually took a lot longer. Ruben Spruijt and I can finally announce the official release of the Project VRC Phase II white paper. This is the biggest release so far and is now available...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2010 12:00 AM by Jeroen van de Kamp

Filed under: Terminal Server, XenServer, vSphere, Hyper-v, Virtualization

Windows on Androids

Or Windows on Mac, Thin Client, WinMo, iPhone... The list grows as Citrix Receiver continues to make the end computing device ambigous. In a previous post I showed how Windows applications or desktops can be delivered to an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2010 1:43 PM by The Citrix Blogs Feed

Filed under: xenserver, appexpert, virtualization, xenapp, xendesktop, iphone, mac, netscaler, howto, android, htc, windows_7, load_balancing, load_balancer, application_delivery, access_gateway, receiver, agee, mpx, thin_client, dazzle, vpx, lang-eng, essentials-hyper-v, access-gateway, ipad, multitasking_iphone, secure_iphone, touch, desktop_delivery, windows, ipod, pc, v2-1, winmo

Increase Product Visibility Through Citrix Ready

The Citrix Ready program is the primary partner technology alliance program at Citrix. The program has received tremendous response from its inception in 2006 and has verified more than a 1000 products which are featured on the Citrix Ready catalog ....

Published Tue, Feb 02 2010 8:57 AM by The Citrix Blogs Feed

Filed under: xenserver, xenapp, xendesktop, citrix, netscaler, partners, storage, citrix_ready, webinars, receiver, twitter, lang-eng, essentials-hyper-v, branch-repeater, citrixonline, access-gateway, products, nfr, licenses, verifications, benefits, program, catalog

Windows on iPad

Or any Application for that matter. Chris Fleck gave fair warning. I'm here to tell you that it works and its here, now. The computing model just got turned on it's ear. Why would you want this? Because it increases your mobility without having...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2010 4:32 PM by The Citrix Blogs Feed

Filed under: xenserver, virtualization, xenapp, xendesktop, iphone, netscaler, load_balancing, load_balancer, application_delivery, access_gateway, receiver, agee, vpx, nonspecific, lang-eng, access-gateway, ipad, multitasking_iphone, secure_iphone, touch, desktop_delivery, v21, windows, ipod

Office Communicator voice & video on XD4, and federation, too!

Since I wrote my blog post about delivering VoIP apps with XenDesktop 4 and HDX RealTime , numerous readers have kindly posted comments or emailed me about the great results they're getting with our new optimized-for-speech audio codec . And don't...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2010 3:06 PM by The Citrix Blogs Feed

Filed under: xenserver, xendesktop, voip, hp, hdx, ulysses, wyse, softphones, windows_7, desktop_virtualization, video_conferencing, hdx_realtime, lang-eng, xd4, voice, audio, voice_chat, federation, speex, webcams, polycom, office_communicator, video_chat, microsoft_ocs, hdx_ready

New Heights for XenServer Single Server Scalability with XenDesktop

We recently conducted a series of tests to determine the limits of VM density for a single XenServer 5.5 host running XenDesktop VMs ( XenServer Single Server Scalability with XenDesktop ). Previously, our VM-per-host limit for typical server-based workloads...

Published Fri, Feb 02 2010 2:06 PM by The Citrix Blogs Feed

Filed under: xenserver, xendesktop, lang-eng, essentials-hyper-v

App Streaming - Layers of cake on XenDesktop

As Architect of Application Streaming, one of the things I do along with the other Citrix architects is worry about how to build the layers of cake. Operating system on the bottom, Applications in the middle and user profile on the top. We gathered a...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2010 8:15 PM by The Citrix Blogs Feed

Filed under: xenserver, xenapp, xendesktop, lang-eng

Deciding Between Blades and Rack Servers for XenDesktop Environments

There are several pros and cons when choosing between blade or rack servers related to power consumption, consolidated networking, manageability and cost. These comparisons are readily available over the Internet, but what makes one preferable to the...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2010 1:55 AM by The Citrix Blogs Feed

Filed under: xenserver, xendesktop, lang-eng, team-guest-bloggers

Eject all DVDs from XenServer VMs

As a best practive in virtual environments you should leave the DVD-Drive empty if you don't have to use it because it can prevent you from doing a live migration e.g. if the local DVD drive from a XenServer host is mapped or to start a VM on another...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2010 11:11 AM by The Citrix Blogs Feed

Filed under: xenserver, lang-eng