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I am excited to go to Citrix Synergy every year. It is a time to get to hear what Citrix is going to say about  virtual desktop, cloud and data mobility. Also it is always so good to meet my Citrix friends. I … Continue reading →

Citrix Ready VDI Capacity Program  Citrix Ready has created an opportunity for storage partners representing several different VDI storage options to plug their storage solutions into a turnkey “VDI Capacity” test environment located in our Santa Clara, CA solutions lab. … Continue reading →

I introduced Citrix ShareFile and why NetApp is the best storage for ShareFile. Now we are ready to set a production ShareFile environment on NetApp. To deploy Citrix ShareFile, you need the following components: Any type of hypervisors  –       Two … Continue reading →

Citrix ShareFile StorageZones and NetApp offer a cost-effective and scalable file sharing solution with the following key benefits. Storage efficiency On-demand flexibility Nondisruptive operations Unified storage architecture Data protection Storage Efficiency With the ShareFile object storage–based architecture, every update to … Continue reading →

When you setup XenDesktop deployment on NetApp Cluster ONTAP, it is important to set LIF user defined failover groups. LIF failover refers to the automatic migration of a LIF in response to a link failure on the LIF’s current network port. When … Continue reading →

I have not posted blogs for a while. In last a few weeks, I was heads down configuring NetApp FlexPod with XenDesktop. I would like to share some best practices on NetApp cluster OnTAP storage configuration in my next a … Continue reading →

I am configuring 2000 seats XenDesktop 7 deployment these days.  1000 Hosted Shared Desktop, 500 Hosted VDI (Pool desktops), and 500 Hosted VDI with personal vDisk. I used NetApp VDI Sizer to get the work loads spread to NetApp FAS … Continue reading →

I am working on vSphere 5.1 with Citrix XenDesktop 7 on Cisco UCS project these days.  CIFS share is created in a virtual storage server as desktop home directory or as a share between the infrastructure VMs. I was setting … Continue reading →

Citrix Synergy 2013 is next week. I have been preparing the presentation and booth demos.  If you mention my blog, I will buy you a beer. Looking forward to meeting you. Below is NetApp mini theater topic and time. I … Continue reading →