Updating XenServer has always been easy compared to updating other hypervisors – which can be a stressful and anxiety inducing process - because of the extra layer of management of other hypervisors, that doesn’t exist with XenServer. In the past with XenServer, you would choose between a list of hotfixes in XenCenter or search around for them on our website. You could pick … [Read more...] about Taking the stress out of updates with XenServer 8
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Accelerate Citrix Machine Catalog Updates with XenServer optimizations
I was talking with a Citrix admin from a large bank recently and they had this exact problem. As a Citrix Admin, keeping your Citrix images updated is a key part of your job. This is where you align technical and business requirements – making sure the business users have everything they need to be productive. You likely have a monthly image update process where you … [Read more...] about Accelerate Citrix Machine Catalog Updates with XenServer optimizations
Optimizing MCS workloads with XenServer
Recently, I’ve written several blogs about the various optimizations technologies XenServer provides for Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS) workloads. You might wonder which ones you should use and how these all fit together. The previous blogs have already explained the XenServer IntelliCache and Read Caching techniques, however MCS additionally provides a … [Read more...] about Optimizing MCS workloads with XenServer
Using Read Cache with Citrix Machine Creation Services
The Machine Creation Services or MCS for short is a technology provided by Citrix that enables provisioning of OS images using Hypervisors. This technology allows the distribution of many computers across the enterprise using the disks available in the hypervisor to provide the images. As previously discussed in the article about IntelliCache, MCS is dependent on … [Read more...] about Using Read Cache with Citrix Machine Creation Services
Optimizing Citrix Machine Creation Services with XenServer IntelliCache
Citrix's Machine Creation Services, or MCS, is one of the industry's best mechanisms for delivering virtual desktops at scale. However, If you are using a hypervisor that is not optimized for Citrix, virtual desktop reboots and Machine Catalog updates might take more time while putting more load on your storage. This can lead to a poor user experience, frustrated … [Read more...] about Optimizing Citrix Machine Creation Services with XenServer IntelliCache