Posts tagged "xendesktop-2"

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Optimise your VDI image with a new OS optimisation tool

Jul 31, 2013

VMware has released a new ( called the ( for Windows 7. One of my bugbears with the whole VDI industry is the _I_ in "VDI", Virtual Desktop _Infrastructure_. Many people often focus too much time and effort designing the _infrastructure_ part of delivering virtual desktops: hypervisors, clusters, brokers, security, storage, networks, streaming, provisioning etc. and don't pay enough attention t...

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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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