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Issue 26, January 2013
What’s the Optimal XenApp 6.5 VM Configuration?
Andy Baker, Architect, Worldwide Consulting Solutions
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When you’re assigning resources to virtual XenApp servers there a number of factors to consider, including the number of VMs per virtualization host, number of virtual processors per VM and whether hyper-threading should be enabled or not. This blog post provides guidance on how the XenApp virtual machines should be configured to achieve maximum user density and reduce your TCO. You'll learn about VM processor specification, user density, number of XenApp servers per host, memory specification and finally IOPS.
Read on to find out the answer
Deploy XenApp 6.5 Using Provisioning Services 6.1 – Part 2
Ed Duncan, Senior Consultant, Consulting Solutions
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Provisioning Services is often thought of as a delivery method for virtual desktops. However, when used with XenApp, Provisioning Services is a powerful tool that makes deploying XenApp farms easier and quicker to perform. Server build consistency is critical for a successful XenApp implementation and Provisioning Services achieves this by streaming a single disk image to the servers in the farm. In this blog series Ed Duncan demonstrates how to use Provisioning Services 6.1 to deploy a XenApp 6.5 farm.
Learn how to deploy XenApp using Provisioning Services
Playing 20 Questions with Project Accelerator
Daniel Feller, Lead Architect, Worldwide Consulting Solutions
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Have you seen Project Accelerator yet? It is a new solution that guides you through your customized desktop virtualization project, provides hardware sizing recommendations, architecture diagrams and design decisions. Something like this didn’t happen overnight. In fact, I’ve been working on the backend logic for over one year now. We are about to start a series of blogs to go over the most common technical questions we’ve received so far. Stay tuned and take Project Accelerator for a spin.
Learn how Project Accelerator can help you deploy XenDesktop successfully!
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