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Citrix XenDesktop Design Handbook Released

Executive Summary

Welcome to the XenDesktop Design Handbook. Virtual desktop delivery is a new enterprise initiative whose goal is to simplify, secure and deliver optimized desktops. Virtual desktops are a major change to the way organizations manage and deliver desktops. The Citrix XenDesktop solution builds a scalable approach for creating, building and delivering virtual desktops through hardware, operating system and application virtualization. These components are merged together to create a personalized desktop environment for each user from standardization. However, in order to create the best XenDesktop environment, requirements, goals and a complete design must be completed. The subsequent sections of the XenDesktop Design Handbook identify the core design considerations and offers options, recommendations and justifications to be used with every XenDesktop design project. With a proper analysis and design, a XenDesktop solution will be manageable, extensible and maintainable. This document focuses on the best practices around desktop delivery and focuses on the following topics:

  • Operating System Delivery
  • Application Delivery
  • Virtual Desktop Delivery

The following sections will help identify, define, explain and propose options for each of the core design decisions.

 

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VMware Reference Card for VI3 3.5

While searching for some information on VMware, I found this solid concise reference card on VI3

  • Updated the details to the latest Confuguration Maximiums PDF.
  • Updated it to include 3.5 update 3 release notes.
  • Changed the versioning to include the latest VMware release, so its more obvious how up to date (or not) your card is.
  • Some minor additions (NAS maximums) and corrections.

Many thanks to all the readers who have written in with comments.  Always welcome.

Go and grab it here: http://www.vmreference.com/downloads/vmreferenceVI3card1.3for3.5U3.pdf

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