Blogs tagged "vdi"

Last week a Unidesk customer emailed us asking about poor performance in an Auto-CAD application on a PCoIP thin client. Everything else in the desktop seemed fine except this application. I then received an email from a customer asking how to improve video (like Youtube) in their View/Unidesk environment (when it rains it pours right?).

We knew there were adjustments that could be made to PCoIP ...

When packaging an application in Unidesk or any other software distribution technology commonly used in virtual desktops (think ThinApp and AppV here) you generally will need to disable any auto-update functionality in the application to ensure the package is updated by IT and not the end-user. This is a first in a series of articles about auto-update functionality in commonly used applications.

Wednesday at 4PM Eastern Citrix announced it had acquired Ringcube. I will talk geek here in a minute, but this was probably one of the worst kept secrets in the VDI world in the last year or so. Brian Madden had an article a week ago about a possible acquisition. And he mentioned HOW he figured it out in his Live radio show.

Of course once it was announced twitter lit up for those of us in ...

In a previous blog post I wrote (here) about problems I was having with a VDI deployment and SpeedStep. Basically any given VDI VM could not access 100% of available CPU cycles on a core. Essentially whenever we spun a VM's CPU up it would report 100% w/ in the guest OS but only approximately 50% at the host level for a given core and only about 1GHz of a 2GHz core.

Anyway, there was a lot of feedback...

Its Thursday. Generally I try to put out a blog by Wednesday or Tuesday during the week. Nothing long or drawn out (no copy of War and Peace here) but something that I have seen or been thinking about this week.

Well, this week I must not have been doing enough thinking because I simply sat at my laptop for over an hour thinking of and discarding topics. Basically they were not worth the space on...

Yesterday we resolved an “issue” that made me think about the new groups of people coming into VDI and the common practice of OS tweaking.  One of the things we do by default, as ‘VDI guys’, is tweak the OS or gold image used in our VDI environments to try to increase density or performance.  What we often don’t think about is that these OS changes are generally not documented ...

One of the most interesting things I get to deal with at Unidesk is the integration and testing of different storage solutions for VDI. Local SAS, Local SSD, FusionIO, iSCSI SAS, NFS, etc etc.   It’s been a ton of fun simply because there are so many disk configuration options out there and lots to learn about each one. But, what’s been most interesting to me lately is the idea of the...

Yesterday I was surprised to find out that in Win 2008 R2 Active Directory environments there is a user account property for a “Personal Virtual Desktop”.   While it’s not earth shaking, it is further validation of the concept of a centralized Virtual Desktop within Microsoft. So I had to a little digging and find out if I could leverage this attribute.

The interesting thing about...

Every IT Planner at HQ liked VDI a lot.
But the Administrators, who lived in the Data Center, did not.
The Admins hated VDI, the whole VDI season.
Please don’t ask why, no one quite knows the reason.

It could be, perhaps, that its storage was too fat.
It could be that the admins couldn’t upgrade that
Application, or hot fix, or black Tuesday patch,
Without sending the users’ data down...