Taking the stress out of updates with XenServer 8
Updating XenServer has always been easy compared to updating other hypervisors – which can be a stressful and anxiety inducing process – because of the extra layer of management of other hypervisors, that doesn’t exist with XenServer. In the past with XenServer, you would choose between a list of hotfixes in XenCenter or search around…
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Accelerate Citrix Machine Catalog Updates with XenServer optimizations
I was talking with a Citrix admin from a large bank recently and they had this exact problem. As a Citrix Admin, keeping your Citrix images updated is a key part of your job. This is where you align technical and business requirements – making sure the business users have everything they need to be…
Optimizing MCS workloads with XenServer
Recently, I’ve written several blogs about the various optimizations technologies XenServer provides for Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS) workloads. You might wonder which ones you should use and how these all fit together. The previous blogs have already explained the XenServer IntelliCache and Read Caching techniques, however MCS additionally provides a Write Back Cache (WBC)…