Tag Archives: storage

Resilient and Scalable File Service on VMware vSAN™ with Cohesity

Posted on 2019-08-09 by zhurachel

I am excited that my reference architecture is published. I had a great experience to work with VMWare team throughout the solution design, implement, test and write up. The vSAN and Cohesity solution consolidates all file services workloads via multi-protocol access … Continue reading →

Posted in backup, HyperConverged, ShareFile, storage, Storage Discussion, user profile | Tagged backup, cloud, cohesity, fileshare, nfs, SMB, storage, vSan | Leave a comment

Join me for FlexPod Datacenter with Citrix XenDesktop Validated Design webex

Posted on 2014-03-04 by zhurachel

FlexPod Datacenter with Citrix XenDesktop Validated Design Converged solutions, which combine desktop operating systems, applications, compute, network and storage improve agility, simplify the deployment and reduce the cost of desktop virtualization. In this webinar, you will discover how the validated … Continue reading →

Posted in flexpod, NetApp Clustered ONTAP, Storage Discussion, virtual desktop | Tagged Citrix, citrix. best practice, CVD, design, flexpod, netapp, storage, VDI, virtual desktop | Leave a comment

CVD: FlexPod Reference Architecture for a 2000 Seat Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with Citrix XenDesktop 7.1 on VMware vSphere 5.1: Architecture

Posted on 2014-02-27 by zhurachel

This CVD provides a 2000-Seat Virtual Desktop Infrastructure using Citrix XenDesktop 7.1 built on Cisco UCS B200-M3 blades with NetApp FAS 3200-series and the VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1 hypervisor platform. The architecture deployed is highly modular. While each customer’s environment … Continue reading →

Posted in flexpod, NetApp Clustered ONTAP, virtual desktop | Tagged cisco, Citrix, CVD, design, netapp, storage, UCS, virtual desktop, vSphere, xendesktop | 1 Comment

XenDesktop 7.1 with vSphere 5.1 on NetApp CVD is published

Posted on 2014-02-25 by zhurachel

Finally after many late nights, we finished our CVD XenDesktop 7.1 with vSphere 5.1 on NetApp. I had great time working with the best engineers in Citrix and Cisco. I will start my series blog posts on this CVD shortly. Happy … Continue reading →

Posted in flexpod, virtual desktop | Tagged cisco, Citrix, citrix. best practice, CVD, design, flexpod, netapp, refere, storage, VDI, virtual desktop | Leave a comment

Excalibur: The merge of XenDesktop and XenApp

Posted on 2013-06-07 by zhurachel

With XenDesktop 7.0 release, the new unified Citrix FlexCast management architecture combines VDI and hosted shared desktops and apps from a single platform. XenApp farms can now be deployed and managed within XenDesktop Studio. This also means XenApp servers can be … Continue reading →

Posted in flexpod, NetApp Clustered ONTAP, virtual desktop | Tagged cisco, Citrix, CVD, excalibure, flexpod, netapp, storage, synergy, xendesktop | Leave a comment

Citrix XenDesktop on NetApp Storage Solution Guide

Posted on 2013-04-19 by zhurachel

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 | Leave a comment

Personal vDisk and IO redistribution

Posted on 2013-04-11 by zhurachel

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 →

Posted in virtual desktop | Tagged Citrix, design, IOPS, netapp, pvdisk, storage, user data, VDI, xendesktop, xendesktop netapp storage VDI virtual desktop protocol design best practice NFS cifs write cache vdisk PVS citrix | 1 Comment

User Profiles in VDI

Posted on 2013-03-22 by zhurachel

User profile allows the user to have a customized virtual desktop environment when using a nonpersistent virtual desktop. The user profile is normally stored in C:\users in a Microsoft Windows physical machine and can be redirected to a CIFS share … Continue reading →

Posted in virtual desktop | Tagged citrix upm, lakeside, liquidware lab, netapp, profile management, storage, user profile, VDI, virtual desktop | Leave a comment

User data in VDI

Posted on 2013-03-15 by zhurachel

User data is the end-user data or home-directory data. In a virtual desktop environment, the home directory data located in a NetApp volume is shared through the CIFS protocol and is mapped as a drive letter in the virtual desktop. … Continue reading →

Posted in virtual desktop | Tagged cifs, IOPS, sizing, storage, user data, VDI, virtual desktop | Leave a comment

XenServer 6.0 and NetApp Best Practice

Posted on 2013-01-25 by zhurachel

XenServer 6.0 and NetApp Best Practice is published! In this new update, we added VSC 1.0 for XenServer. The key benefits of VSC for XenServer are: Reduce deployment, management, and troubleshooting time Ensure compliance with NetApp and Citrix best practices … Continue reading →

Posted in XenServer | Tagged citrix. best practice, FCP, iscsi, lun, multipathing, netapp, nfs, storage, vm clone, VSC, xenserver | Leave a comment