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The truth about XenDesktop 4 scalability
We've heard about it, we've seen it and we've read about it from Citrix, from VMware, from Microsoft and from just about everyone else. We see one report showing one technology is better than the other...
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XenDesktop 5 Scalability – XenDesktop Controller Capacity
Think about the architecture of XenDesktop 5. One of the core components responsible for an acceptable user experience during the initial authentication and launch of the virtual desktop are the...
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XenDesktop 5 Scalability – Site Capacity
When we last looked at XenDesktop 5 scalability, we really focused on the user experience in that users should not be required to wait longer than 2.5 seconds before the system responded to an...
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Windows 10 Optimization: Part 8 – The Results
Statistics are fun. It is amazing what interesting insights you can get from statistics. For example About 20% of workers would work harder if their employer offered a $1,000 shopping spree at the...
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XenDesktop 7.7 and Windows 7
We recently completed a massive round of testing looking at many of the different deployment configurations we can do with a Windows 7 desktop in XenDesktop 7.7. We wanted to look at how different...
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XenDesktop 7.7 and Windows 10
The other day, I was able to share the latest single server density results when running Windows 7 on XenDesktop 7.7. We looked at a range of parameters like: PVS vs MCS PVS Disk Cache vs RAM Cache...
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Sizing Windows 10 and Windows 7 Virtual Machines
After reviewing all of the scalability tests we conducted over the past few months, I thought it was time to revisit the recommendations for sizing Windows 10 virtual machines. I also reached out to...
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Sizing XenApp Windows 2012R2 Virtual Machines
I guess I’m not done yet. Last week, I posted the latest recommendations on sizing Windows 10 and Windows 7 virtual machines for a XenDesktop environment. I received a few replies from people asking...
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Sizing Windows 2016, Windows 2012 and Windows 10 Virtual Machines
It has been almost one year since Windows Server 2016 was released at Microsoft Ignite. Are the virtual machine sizing recommendations for Windows Server 2012R2 applicable to Windows Server 2016? And...
View ArticleWindows 10 – Resource Utilization
Every 6 months, Microsoft releases a major update to Windows 10. To be more precise, it is better to identify Windows 10 releases with version numbers (1503, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709 and 1803). The...
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Winter in Minnesota. Back the car out of my driveway, reach the road and my car immediately slides, sideways downhill. I think I need new tires. One of the best practices I like to talk about is...
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