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Accessing a USB drive in XenServer - Part 2

In part-1 , I discussed how to mount a read-only NTFS USB drive into your XenServer filesystem. In this week's installment, I'll talk about Formatting a USB drive exclusively for XenServer . If you wanted to dedicate a USB drive to your XenServers...

Published Feb 28 2009 by The Official Citrix Blog , 3,333 views, 0 comments

Using PVS Boot Device Manger with XenDesktop and Xenserver

Boot device manager (bdm.exe) is a utility that has been around a while with Provisioning server but in the new release of PVS 5.0 sp1a major improvements have been made to allow you to have a great alternative to using PXE(Dhcp, tftp, Bootp, etc) to...

Published Feb 25 2009 by The Official Citrix Blog , 2,680 views, 0 comments

Delivering Cisco softphones from XenDesktop

The senior architect at a major bank recently told me how they use Wyse TCX USB Virtualizer to deliver the Cisco IP Communicator softphone from XenDesktop to LAN-connected users. The Wyse V10L thin clients are equipped with Netcom GN 2000 USB headsets...

Published Feb 09 2009 by The Official Citrix Blog , 2,388 views, 0 comments

TechTalk Q and A - Simplifying Application Delivery to the Virtual Desktop

Q: Any recommendations for hosting or streaming components such as .NET, Oracle Drivers, MQ drivers, teradata, DB2, etc ? A: Many core OS components will need to be installed as part of the base image. Things like anti-virus, drivers, .NET. Q: Is there...

Published Feb 11 2009 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,689 views, 0 comments

XenServer Tips and Tricks, Windows 7 Beta on XenServer 5

The Windows 7 Beta is out in the wild and what better way to try it out than running it as a virtual machine. While the latest version of XenServer shipped well before Windows 7 beta in this month's first XenServer Tips and Tricks you can learn how...

Published Feb 13 2009 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,492 views, 0 comments

XenDesktop Platinum and GoToAssist - what's the deal?

For every 200 licenses of more of XenDesktop Platinum Edition you place an order for, and you are entitled to a license of GoToAssist. It is actually a benefit of your active Subscription Advantage. I get a lot of questions about this, mostly starting...

Published Feb 06 2009 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,447 views, 0 comments

VMworld - Misuse of Gartner's TCO Numbers to Make the Case for View

I've just wrapped another long day at VMworld Europe in Cannes, France. I've got lots of thoughts on many things I've seen and heard here, but I thought I'd start with a topic that Brian Madden brought up in his blog about how VMware is...

Published Feb 25 2009 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,400 views, 0 comments

Introduction to NetScaler 9.0 Webinar

Date: February 24, 2009 Time: 12:00 PM -- 1:00 PM EST (9:00 AM -- 10:00 AM PST) Date: February 26, 2009 Time: 8:00 PM -- 9:00 PM EST (5:00 PM -- 6:00 PM PST) Citrix Education invites you to attend a webinar on the application...

Published Feb 05 2009 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,229 views, 0 comments

Manage Your Entire Server Farm From a Single Image with XenApp 5 Feature Pack

By: Vinny Sosa with contributions from Pete Downing On Monday, February 23rd, Citrix announced the release of XenApp 5 Feature Pack . This release includes a whole slew of features designed to save customers money. In total, XenApp 5 Feature Pack adds...

Published Feb 26 2009 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,222 views, 0 comments

How to get your own Citrix XenApp server in EC2 for 12 cents and 15 minutes

OK, actually it's 12.5 cents and it might take you a few minutes longer, but compared to the traditional methods of building/configuring servers the cost and time savings is dramatic. It is now possible to launch a pre-built XenApp image in the Amazon...

Published Feb 06 2009 by The Official Citrix Blog , 1,215 views, 0 comments

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