We're all performance tuners at heart, and we'd all like our VDI environments to get as many users as possible and to perform as well as possible. So here are some starting points for you:
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Have you heard of ControlUp yet? Smart-X, its creator, has received a bit of press lately for it due to it's simple, unique approach to monitoring and management. I had a chance to meet with Yoni Avital and Asaf Ganot when I was at Citrix Synergy in Barcelona...
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December 08, 2011
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We ( Sven Huisman , Jeroen van de Kamp and Ruben Spruijt ) are pleased to announce the long awaited release of the Project Virtual Reality Check (VRC) Phase IV whitepaper. As promised: this one does a true deep dive on Application Virtualization in VDI...
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June 15, 2011
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While working on my presentation for BriForum on Perceived Performance, I was reminded of another performance related white paper that I wrote seven years ago titled It's Time to Change the Timers , which was about the need to change the basic system...
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April 13, 2011
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Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 will introduce two major new features: RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory. I've written about RemoteFX before (as has Brian ), so today's focus is Dynamic Memory (from the VDI perspective). We'll also...
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January 27, 2011
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At the TechEd 2010, Microsoft has been busy talking about things like Azure and Office365, SaaS and PaaS, and all things cloud. But in they keynote yesterday, there was a spattering of desktop stuff. Nothing earth-shattering, unless you count a 40% increase...
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November 10, 2010
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Ruben and I are pleased to announce we finally can release the long awaited Phase III whitepaper. As promised: this one does a true VDI deep dive. We think we have interesting new content, and more importantly, many new insights. More and more organizations...
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September 27, 2010
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Last week, I attended the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas, which is a show that neither Brian nor I have ever attended. In the past, we looked at it as a server management conference, just outside of the scope of what we cover on BrianMadden...
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April 27, 2010
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Presented by Ian Parker, Senior Web Services Administrator, ThomsonReuters Performance analysis can be a complicated, difficult and even obscure topic. If you are faced with an urgent performance issue, it can be very difficult to gather relevant performance...
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April 27, 2010
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A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about the fact that Symantec had suddenly stopped selling their Workspace Profiles product which they OEM'ed from RTO Software. I wondered why this was, and suggested that perhaps it was because Symantec competitor...
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February 24, 2010
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Ruben and I are getting close to the release of the Project VRC phase 2 white paper. (Here's a primer on Project VRC if you haven't heard of it.) Although we've been discussing and presenting the best practices from the first paper around...
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January 09, 2010
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Yesterday, I was going through the list of vendors in our space, checking out websites and seeing who had anything that was notable or really interesting. About halfway through, I noted that there are an awful lot of vendors that have monitoring solutions...
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October 28, 2009
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I've posted a new episode of " Sequencing With Tim Mangan ", an occasional series looking at the Microsoft App-V product in action. In this episode, we look at sequencing the latest version of Camtasia Studio from TechSmith . I use Microsoft...
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September 03, 2009
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I realized as I was writing today's VDIworks article that we never published the performance videos that we recorded last year when we visited Qumranet's (now Red Hat's) offices in the Bay Area. The information we got is very interesting,...
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June 18, 2009
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It's not meant to be a condescending question, "Who's using the Citrix Branch Repeater?" I really just want to know who's got it and how they use it. Since I first heard about the device sometime last year (or was it the year before...
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April 13, 2009
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If you use Hyper-V, or any OS virtualization platform, you know that you can't trust the Windows Task Manager from inside the VMs to tell you squat. Basically, the virtualization layer pulls the rug out from under the guest OS when it comes to CPU...
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March 11, 2009
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Citrix's big announcement last week was about the release of XenDesktop version 3 . But there were some other smaller announcements too that many people missed, including the one about Citrix creating a new brand called "HDX." ( citrix.com...
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February 12, 2009
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Jeroen van de Kamp and I are proud to finally announce the official launch of project "Virtual Reality Check” (VRC). This is a independent research joint venture between our companies--Login Consultants and PQR. The primary purpose of VRC is...
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January 25, 2009
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Earlier this week, I had a briefing with Ericom and came away with an interesting bit of information about their upcoming PowerTerm Webconnect release. "True Media Experience," which uses a technology developed by Ericom called Reverse Seamless...
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December 17, 2008
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What is Preferential Load Balancing? Preferential Load Balancing (PLB) is a new feature included in XenApp 5 (Platinum only) that uses administrator-configured levels of importance to assign more or less CPU cycles to users and/or applications. For instance...
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December 03, 2008
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Last July, Login Consultants released an early beta version of an upcoming freeware tool called Login VSI. This tool is a Windows desktop benchmarking tool that runs a series of workload simulations and produces a relative performance score. The idea is that you'd use Login VSI to test various hardware configurations (Would that extra 4GB RAM make a difference?) or to see what the impact would be of going VDI (How much more hardware would I need to support the same number of users with the same scores as I can do now with TS?).
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September 24, 2008
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