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Monthly Archives: April 2013
Citrix XenDesktop on NetApp Storage Solution Guide
I am very happy to announce new technical paper Citrix XenDesktop on NetApp Storage Solution Guide is released. Thanks for Neil Glick to architect and set up the whole infrastructure with me, and Will who did all the performance testing.
Posted in Storage Discussion, virtual desktop
Tagged best practice, cifs, Citrix, citrix. best practice, design, flexpod, lun, multipathing, solution, storage, VDI, vDisk, virtual desktop, virtualizatio, vm clone, xendesktop, xendesktop netapp storage VDI virtual desktop protocol design best practice NFS cifs write cache vdisk PVS citrix
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Non-disruptive operation for data center and cloud solutions
One of the benefits of NetApp clustered OnTap is non-disruptive operation. The key to efficiency and the lynchpin of clustering is the ability to make sure that the cluster does not fail—ever. The nondisruptive collection of independent nodes working together … Continue reading
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Tagged cloud, cluster, computer, corporate apps, move, netapp, non-disruptive, VDI, virtual desktop, virtualization, volume
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Personal vDisk and IO redistribution
With the persistent (assigned) desktop configuration utilizing Citrix personal vDisk, the effect of I/O to the storage can be summarized as follows: Much of the workload that went to the write cache in a nonpersistent desktop now goes to the … Continue reading
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