Posts tagged "citrix-2"

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VMware announces Horizon View 6 taking on Citrix XenApp with RDS Hosted Apps

Apr 9, 2014

VMware has announced the latest version of their End User Computing product Horizon View. There have been 5 major changes to Horizon View: RDS Hosted apps will allow Horizon View clients to access applications and full desktops running on Windows Remote Desktop Services Hosts. This is big news as it gives VMware a competing product to Citrix XenApp. For people who know about VDI, what is the di...

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NetApp releases Virtual Storage Console for Citrix XenServer

Aug 17, 2012

NetApp has now released a version of its ( as a plug-in to XenCenter. The VSC allows you to provision, resize and destroy storage repositories, manage deduplication and provision VMs using FlexClone and then import them into XenDesktop. One of the nice things about XenServer and XenCenter is you create storage at the pool level and it is automatically mounted to all hosts in the pool rather tha...

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XenDesktop 5: Using Active Directory-Based Controller Discovery

Dec 14, 2011

VDI desktops in a XenDesktop environment need to be able to register with a controller or multiple controllers so they can be managed by the broker and allow connections by clients. In XenDesktop 4 the default was having the controller information held in an Active Directory OU. During installation you specified an AD OU and the controller installation added the AD objects to the OU so the Citr...

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Citrix XenServer 5.6 Feature Pack 1 is not supported with XenDesktop 4 & 5

Apr 6, 2011

( is the latest release of XenServer but it is not supported as a hypervisor with either XenDesktop 4 or XenDesktop 5. Have a look at the Citrix eDocs for Host Requirements / Hosting Infrastructure. XenServer 5.6 Feature Pack 1 has been out since 15 December 2010 and the ( specifically mention enhancements to Provisioning Services and XenDesktop (only coming in a future release) > Provisioning...

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