Virtualization news for the channel community and you !

Now that VDI is top-of-mind, more an more people ask us about design consideration, architecture, who can we VDI (if VDI would be a verb), … Most VDI vendors have some sort of guidelines or handbook and now Citrite Daniel Feller (senior architect) and Thomas Berger are “writing” the Encyclopedia Brittanica on XenDesktop: “the XenDesktop Design Handbook”.

The first part (of a multi-chapter handbook) has been released to the support-site of Citrix. This part focuses on ‘operating systems’, application and virtual desktop delivery design decisions. Over the coming months they will expand the series into different design dicision areas.

Some recommendations:

• Use provisioning services for ‘device collection’ for better organization of the devices and start with a minimum of different vDisks.
• Configure the SQL database in a fully redundant matter …. XenServer + Marathon Technologies everRun VM
• What about storage … page 4
• Where to store the write cache …. page 6
• …