The nature of the accommodation volume apps and desktops in the cloud

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The nature of the accommodation volume apps and desktops in the cloud -

Do the old accounting calculations still hold true to the premise services off on IT? No they do not. You might ask ... But wait a minute, you can not change the profitability and margins just because you provide a cloud service. Can you? Well the answer is yes, if you do it right ... With over 10 partners in the Citrix Service Provider program today, we have a pretty good idea of ​​what works, what does not and where money is.

to start with the mentality of an organized set of applications (we call Seamless Apps) or an entire office (we think by definition includes applications) must be done with a scale the mind. By sharing resource pools and increase the size of the offer, associated costs may decrease. The more personalized / complicated supply, less infrastructure, maintenance, and support service level agreements can be exploited. By creating an environment that allows the creation of "Golden Image" provisioning and management, margins increase with volume.

This is very important for service providers that want to offer hosted applications and desktops. Unfortunately, the managed service provider industry did not grow up with that mindset. In fact, much of the revenue from this model (more) operations came loaded in professional services to manage all of the customization and the complexity of the individual out corporate IT site. While still a profitable business, many service providers are now asking, is their a better way to develop my business. Well Citrix has developed a comprehensive approach that takes account of shared resources in the data center and automation of the provisioning service.

Check it out .... and increase margins as you increase your volume.

Performance on XenServer 5.6 SP2 and HP DL 380G6

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Performance on XenServer 5.6 SP2 and HP DL 380G6 -

To improve performance Xenserver 5.6SP2 operated HPDL380 G6 with local storage

Issue : server performance is very low and taking huge time to create the VM in Xenserver

the configuration of the HP DL380G6 with 1.6TB EXT local storage with file system, 96GB RAM and processor hexacore

Solution :. for this kind of question we need to activate the acceleration ratio in the table Array configuration

By default, the panel report will be 100% in reading, it should be changed to 75% writing and 25% of reading.

It is recommended to add BBWC with 512 MB for optimal performance.

Before activating the VM creation take 4 hours and 45 minutes

After applying this time creating VM parameters reduced to 2 hours 40 minutes.

Citrix TechTalk webinar "How to fill your data center to the cloud" at 15 am Thursday 1st December

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Citrix TechTalk webinar "How to fill your data center to the cloud" at 15 am Thursday 1st December -

Everyone wants to enjoy the economy and flexibility of cloud fantastic. Yet the safety and reliability are still worrying in the spirit of enterprise customers. Where live data? What about sensitive database applications that depend? How can you move it all to the cloud without massive investment?

Come to this webinar and discover how Citrix allows your data center to be extended in the public cloud.

If you don 't registered, click here.

The office is just another implementation

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The office is just another implementation -

had a brief discussion on twitter the other day where people (@simoncrosby, @joeshonk, @RichCrusco) said we only need to focus on providing applications and NOT a Windows desktop 7. I completely disagree. In fact, we should treat the desktop interface as an application. Of course, the office-haters computers immediately came out saying. "No, the office is not an application" It was pretty much what I thought

Unfortunately, trying to explain my. the point in 140 characters would not do it justice, but a blog is a start.

the key point is that we must focus on users. When you look at the way users work with these systems you understand what they need to work effectively. We look at applications as a way to get the data. We decide whether the needs of users to access the application, and it is either granted or denied. If we ignorant of the desktop interface, things would be much easier. I already have a desktop interface, so why do I need another. My local desktop interface has my own applications, so just let me take out virtual applications. This would mitigate the challenge of the application installed by the user. If you focus only on applications, you are missing an important aspect because this model does not work for everyone. Let me give you some examples for and against having the desktop interface delivered:

  • iPad: I do not want to use the Windows desktop interface on my iPad because it does not feel natural (Windows 8 could change that, but will wait before deciding). On the iPad, I just want to get one or two of my applications. So in this case, I want to ignore the desktop interface
  • The shift working. I work remotely on my laptop belonging to the company (Windows 7). If IT applications only gave me, things would feel against nature. They could fill my start menu with my applications, but it does not feel good. It would take 2 for Windows Explorers (one of my personal office and one for my virtualized environment). It would take me two browsers (one for my staff and for my virtual). Which should I use? I'm not on the internal network, so I have to make sure I use the right. Not friendly and very natural. In this case, the Windows desktop is a requirement because it makes the best user experience
  • BYO :. A user brings his camera and uses it to work. From the technical point of view, the provision of virtualized applications work fine. Unfortunately, we are not looking forward to the user. A user will not want the enterprise application there. They do not want these applications to consume hard disk space, and they do not want to pollute their start menu. Virtualize applications could overcome these problems, but the perception of the user is that applications are local. Even training users about application virtualization would not be enough that many users believe big brother is always watching. In addition, there will be confusion of having the corporate Web browser and your local web browser (I hope you use the right, or you could be in trouble). Users of a BYO program want to use their own device, but still give a "Corporate" environment to work on
  • Device for local business. You have a physical office (Windows 7) on the corporate WAN, why I want to fight another desktop interface the one I have? You probably do not, so just to provide applications.

We love talking can do all these cool things with virtualization and what the future holds, but people tend to ignore the user type and their views. This perspective and the system user comfort are what make things succeed or fail. If the solution does not feel natural, it will not work. And I say that to focus solely on the applications and ignoring the desktop interface, you do not know the user and only think about pie in the utopia of heaven.

If we treat the desktop interface (XP, Windows 7, RDS) as an application, you need to assess the need for the interface using the same criteria that you use for applications (point device end, the user's usage requirements, location, etc.). If you treat the office as a desktop computer, you will surely go on the road believe the desktop interface is not important to find that users are not satisfied with the application virtualization solution, killing acceptance users.

Not everyone requires a company-supplied desktop interface, but many do and we can not ignore this need

Daniel -. Lead Architect
XenDesktop Design Handbook

To hurry up! Only 23 days!

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Do not miss this huge opportunity to win the iPad 2 ! Create and blow your email campaigns through the Citrix janitor marketing site and automatically get entered into a drawing. You might be one of the lucky two partners win for the month of December! Follow your recordings and generate more sales leads directly from the platform. All these tools are available to Free ! Do not wait, go ahead! Learn to sail Citrix Marketing Concierge watching training videos available on the home page: Getting Started; Creating your first video of the event; Customize your first campaign.

Follow me on twitter @ GabriellaPinto4 and get the latest news.

Mobile Endgeräte besser nutzen mit dem XenApp 6.5 Mobility Pack

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Die Weihnachtsferien (und Weihnachtsgeschenke) stehen vor der Tür, und im neuen Jahr noch mehr werden Mitarbeiter und neue Glänzende Smartphones Tablets in die Firma mitbringen beschliessen und, und damit auch im Unternehmen zu arbeiten mobiler produktiver. Im Unternehmen sollten diesen Trend Zusammenspiel mit Citrix-Lösungen und nicht besser unterstützen verhindern!

Jetzt ist das Citrix XenApp 6.5 Mobility Pack verfügbar, das hilft Benutzern, mobile Endgeräte noch besser und zu nutzen einfacher. Auf XenApp-Servern gehostete Desktops shared und Anwendungen der sind Schlüsselkomponenten FlexCast-Technologien in XenDesktop. Das vorgestellte Mobility Add-on Pack gestaltet den Zugriff auf diese mit Anwendungen und Desktops Tablets Smartphones und noch benutzerfreundlicher. Zum Beispiel mit diesem kann pack XenApp smart erkennen, ob ein oder iOS Android Tablet und wird als Endgerät eingesetzt kann Tablet optimiert Desktops darstellen, was das viel Benutzererlebnis natürlicher für den Anwender gestaltet:

Statt der gewohnten Desktop- Oberfläche:

kann diese und vereinfachte optimierte Benutzeroberfläche dargestellt werden:

Kein Verschieben und mehr von Zoomen Fenstern um einen mit einem Tablet kompletten veröffentlichten zu Desktop bedienen!

Und auch für Anwendungen bietet das Paket veröffentlichte vorteile für die Nutzung. Jetzt können mobile Geräte Spezifische Funktionen wie Automatisches Popup-Tastatur oder automatischen aktivieren Bildlauf then Dass Benutzer noch mit benutzerfreundlicher XenApp Windows-Anwendungen auf ihrem gehosteten mobilen Gerät arbeiten können.

Als zusätzliche Möglichkeit für Software-Entwickler bietet ab sofort auch das XenApp 6.5 Mobile Application SDK IT-Organisationen die Möglichkeit, die zu machen of speziellen Fähigkeiten von Smartphones und Tablets wie GPS und Kameras auch Windows Anwendungen, die Receiver über auf XenApp-Servern genutzt werden.

Das Mobility pack und das SDK mobile stehen zum Download bereit ab sofort of

Download :.

  • XenApp 6.5 Mobility Pack
  • XenApp 6.5 Mobile SDK application
  • Receiver for Android 3.0 (verfügbar im Android Market)
  • Empfänger für iOS 5.5 in Kürze verfügbar
  • Mobile GoldenGate email - Tech Konzept Release 4 (zB Apps, die mit dem SDK erstellt wurden)
  • Alcatraz Mobile PIN pad - Tech Konzept Release 4 (zB Apps , die mit dem SDK erstellt wurden)

CC 5.0 Enhancements: Link Repeater Statistics Quick Reports (NEW) -Part2

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In the last blog (/ blogs / 2011/12/08 / DC-5 -0new-support-for-more-br-quick-reports-part1 /), we discussed the new management group against Repeater App traffic. In line with this, we will now discuss in Part 2 of the new Quick Reports supported by CC 5.0, group against Repeater Link Stats.

Part 2-Repeater Link Group Stats Counter

This group counter uniquely identifies a link in the "Table of liaison statistics" . The group focuses on drawing graphs on traffic based link. The basic components of the counters are the same, all the flows and the type of traffic to analyze the changes with all three groups of application quality of service and now to connect traffic based.

METER:

  • Linking sent volume (bits per second)
    • the total volume of traffic sent over the link, measured in 1000-bytes. When a byte is 8-bit.
  • Link received volume (bits per second)
    • The total volume of traffic received on the link, measured in 1000-bytes.
  • sent packets link
    • The total number of packets sent over the link.
  • received packets link
    • The total number of packets received on the link.
  • abandoned the link sent volume (bits per second)
    • total traffic was not sent on the link because of QoS threshold, measured in 1000-bytes. QoS threshold is the limit of the bandwidth set on the links.
  • Link dropped the received volume (bits per second)
    • The total received striped traffic link due QoS threshold, measured in 1000 bytes.
  • packet fell link sent
    • the total number of unsent the link because of QoS threshold packets.
  • connection dropped packets received
    • the total number of received packets dropped from the link because of QoS threshold.

This is a preview of the chart to the volume of traffic sent over a link in bits per second.

Next Blog, we cover QoS Repeater Group Statistics against.