by Dane Young, MBA | Nov 8, 2012 | Citrix, Microsoft, VMware
I was recently asked to present an agnostic session on “Advancements in Hypervisor Technologies” at the Virtualization Solutions Exchange, sponsored by Entisys Solutions (www.VSX2012.com). Below is the description of the session, followed by the YouTube...
by Dane Young, MBA | Sep 8, 2012 | Citrix, Microsoft
Click to download: WS2012_HyperV_PVS_XenDesktop_StreamedVM_Setup_Wizard.ps1 I was recently asked to do a hypervisor performance comparison using LoginVSI against Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V 2 and the newly released Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 3. For this...
by Dane Young, MBA | Aug 21, 2012 | Microsoft
Several months ago, fellow blogger Kees Baggerman covered RDS: Windows 8 Scenario-based RDS deployment which included a 10 minute YouTube video on RDS Session Virtualization (aka terminal services). In this article, I am going to cover the other element of RDS...
by Dane Young, MBA | Mar 19, 2012 | Microsoft
In consulting with clients over the years for Virtualization, VDI and Cloud initiatives, an inevitable conversation that surfaces is DHCP high availability. While Microsoft allows Enterprise customers to protect DHCP in a Failover Cluster, my experience is that this...
by Dane Young, MBA | Mar 12, 2012 | Citrix, Microsoft
There have been a lot of amazing announcements this week, the most notable was the availability of XenDesktop 5.6 and Provisioning Services 6.1 which now both support System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Release Candidate (and RTM once announced). In addition,...
by Dane Young, MBA | Oct 8, 2011 | Citrix, Microsoft, VMware
As a field consultant for the last several years, I have been amazed at the numerous deployment scenarios that can be reproduced utilizing just one piece of physical hardware. Due to increasingly expensive electrical bills I trimmed down my server class lab hardware...
