April, 2011 | Blog Bujarra.com

Using VMware Storage IO Control

One of the new features of vSphere 4.1 is VMware Storage IO Control (SIOC) that will allow us to improve disk performance when using resource allocations on virtual machines. In vSphere we can assign different priorities to a virtual machine at the CPU level, RAM and disk; as well as CPU and RAM are prioritized only by the host that runs them, on disk access (shared) prioritize it proportionally among the rest of the hosts. Requirements: vSphere 4.1 Enterprise Plus, a single vCenter will manage the warehouses, Supported for FC and iSCSI (no NFS or RDM/RAW), Multiple Extensions Not Supported.

Installing and Configuring Citrix Provisioning Services 5.6

With Citrix Provisioning Services we can distribute servers or desktops over the network, called on-demand equipment provisioning. This provisioning will allow us to dynamically and accelerate the generation of new virtual desktops or servers at the desired time. Together with XenDesktop we will be able to manage virtual desktops as in VMware View with VMware Composer, distribute disk images that are obtained from a master virtual desktop with the Provisioning Services Agent to our users.

Migrating the Citrix XenDesktop database 5

In this document we will see how to migrate the Citrix XenDesktop DB 5 to another database server, sometimes it is necessary since we may start our implementation or pilot of XenDesktop with the database in the broker itself (on-premises with SQL Express) and we want to take it to the corresponding DB server,

Adding a controller in XenDesktop 5

If we want to have another connection broker in our Citrix XenDesktop infrastructure 5 we can follow these brief steps after installing a second XenDesktop Controller, With this we will be able to balance the load of the main controller and have high availability. even so, we must take into account that a single controller can manage up to 15000 Desks.

Installing and configuring Citrix XenDesktop 5

This article that I had pending publication was the new version of Citrix's XenDesktop where you will see the installation and configuration, this is Citrix's quintessential desktop virtualization infrastructure. What's new in this version: New look, Role-based installation (just like Citrix Xenapp 6), IMA disappears, Active Directory Configuration Wizard disappears, New Management Consoles (Desktop Studio and Desktop Director), Dazzle (HTTP://www.bujarra.com/?p=4157), enabling XenClient for connections and desktop synchronization… With this we will be able to provide our users with virtual desktops, in order to have a thin client environment on our network. With the Citrix controller we can manage the connections to the desktops that interest us (Supports up to 15000 MV cada controller), we will be able to connect to virtual machines based on Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere or physical directly. Podremos unir diferentes tecnologías para la creación automática de escritorios como Citrix Provisioning Server o VMware […]