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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.

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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 →

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XenDesktop Storage design Series: Part 1

Posted on 2012-11-02 by zhurachel

XenDesktop Storage design Series 1 As a solution architect, I have been working with customers, NetApp sales engineers and partners on design and deploy virtual desktop last 4 years. I hope this blog series will help you to deploy virtual … Continue reading →

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