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
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What monitoring capabilities would you like in XenServer?
Customers vary widely in how they choose to monitor their IT environments, two of the most common approaches we encounter are based on SNMP and Nagios. With the release of XenServer 8, we added 2 new monitoring capabilities with the ability to monitor XenServer with both SNMP and Nagios. We’d love feedback from you on what new monitoring capabilities you would like to see … [Read more...] about What monitoring capabilities would you like in XenServer?
Optimizing Citrix PVS with XenServer PVS Accelerator
When talking to customers of bigger Citrix on-prem deployments, the most liked feature that they mention is that 'it just works'. As a good second, the XenServer PVS Accelerator is mentioned without exceptions. This is understandable, as starting or making changes to a large number of VMs will bring most networks to it's limits. This is why features like PVS Accelerator are so … [Read more...] about Optimizing Citrix PVS with XenServer PVS Accelerator
Why is XenServer best for Citrix?
With the launch of XenServer 8 behind us, it is a good time to take a step back and look at what we are trying to achieve with our great hypervisor. The number one question I get in customer and partner calls is ‘Can you provide more color on what you mean by XenServer is the only hypervisor optimized for Citrix workloads’ (Well to be honest, the most asked question … [Read more...] about Why is XenServer best for Citrix?