We continue to hear from many customers that they are interested in moving their Citrix workloads to XenServer from VMware due to recent price increases. XenServer 8 now makes it even easier for you to migrate your Citrix workloads from VMware to XenServer, with the new PVS teleportation capabilities. This simplifies migrating your PVS master images to XenServer, … [Read more...] about Simplifying PVS Migration from VMware to XenServer
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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 … [Read more...] about Optimizing MCS workloads with XenServer
Using Read Cache with Citrix Machine Creation Services
The Machine Creation Services or MCS for short is a technology provided by Citrix that enables provisioning of OS images using Hypervisors. This technology allows the distribution of many computers across the enterprise using the disks available in the hypervisor to provide the images. As previously discussed in the article about IntelliCache, MCS is dependent on … [Read more...] about Using Read Cache with Citrix Machine Creation Services
Optimizing Citrix Machine Creation Services with XenServer IntelliCache
Citrix's Machine Creation Services, or MCS, is one of the industry's best mechanisms for delivering virtual desktops at scale. However, If you are using a hypervisor that is not optimized for Citrix, virtual desktop reboots and Machine Catalog updates might take more time while putting more load on your storage. This can lead to a poor user experience, frustrated … [Read more...] about Optimizing Citrix Machine Creation Services with XenServer IntelliCache
What monitoring capabilities would you like in XenServer?
Customers vary widely in how they choose to monitor their IT environments, two of the most common approaches we encounter are based on SNMP and Nagios. With the release of XenServer 8, we added 2 new monitoring capabilities with the ability to monitor XenServer with both SNMP and Nagios. We’d love feedback from you on what new monitoring capabilities you would like to see … [Read more...] about What monitoring capabilities would you like in XenServer?