I attened the VDI vs TS presentation this afternoon presented by, the quite possibly mental, Brian Madden. I have to say that I haven’t been to a presentation that frank in a long time, possibly even ever!
I won’t rehash everything from the presentation because you can read the crux of most of the discussions here. [...]
Delivered by Michel Bond & Holger Temme, who are Global Solution Consultants at VMware.
Now that 92% or customers feel confident that mission-critical apps run well on VMware, these have included some of the following in production:
SQL Server
Oracle
IBM DB2
SAP
So there is no reason not to virtualise Citrix XenApp servers. It is very easy to virtualise everything [...]
Check out the Smart Citrix Client tool that was written by the guys at Virtual Technologies Software.
A really cool tool that allow fast and simple connection to a MetaFrame Server or a published application and to export the connection to an ICA file.
Works perfectly with lots of customisable options:
Display Settings
Local Devices
ICA Cache
Brilliant and it just [...]
One of my favourtite Blogs is ICT-Freak there is a wealth of information to be found here, some of it in Dutch, some of it English, but all of it awesome.
One of the author’s contacts sent him a mass of recommendations for running Citrix in a VMware environment. Covering some of the following:
Technical Recommendations
Deployment
Disaster [...]
I have no idea how much creditability this story has, but I suspect that IBM will want to get back into the forefront of virtualisation so could have some legs.
Check it out here.
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