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Last week I participated in a training event hosted by Citrix titled “Citrix Hands On Technical Workshop – XenDesktop“. The training was very beneficial in that I was not only able to walk through some configuration labs but I also heard first hand experiences from various partners around the Southeast that have already implemented XenDesktop. This post is a summary of my notes about Citrix’s solution and it’s key differentiators from other VDI alternatives.

The complete XenDestop solution consists of the following components:

• XenServer (or VMware ESX or Microsoft Hyper-V)
• Provisioning Server
• The Desktop Delivery Controller
• XenApp
• Citrix Access Gateway
• WANScaler
• EdgeSight
• GoToAssist
• EasyCall

Details on each of the pieces can be found on Citrix’s XenDesktop Technology page. Administrators familiar with the Citrix line of products will recognize several traditional components from their Presentation Server solutions. The “How Desktop Delivery Works” screen shot above is also from Citrix’s web page. Click on it for a larger view of the image.

Like VMware’s Virtual Desktop Manager (VDM), XenDesktop’s solution is centered around a connection broker, or The Desktop Delivery Controller (DCC). Read the rest of this entry »

One of the hands on labs I attended at VMware Partner Exchange was the Site Recovery Manager (SRM) lab. In the lab I was able to get a good understanding of the technical details of how the yet to be released product is configured. The lab then walked us through the fail over process and workflow. This post is a high level summary of what I learned. This post is not intended to be a detailed how to, but instead just a logical overview about what it will take to set up SRM.
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More lab materials from VMWorld for those who can’t download themselves.

Linked to this post are the materials from “Using VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for Hosted Computing”. This lab walks through installation, administration, creating a desktop, creating desktop pools, and finally connecting to desktops and desktop pools.

The Appendix also goes through a detailed process of getting a WinXP VM ready to become a template. Too many template VMs are created without taking the time to optimize the VM for future cloning. This process can be used to prepare any VM for becoming a template – not just for use in VDI.

Using VDI Vmworld 2007 Lab

The file attached to this post is the VMWorld 2007 “Leveraging VMware Consolidated Backup for Disaster Recovery” lab materials. I am posting this for those that did not get to go to VMWorld and do not have an ID to log on to the VMWorld site.

This .pdf illustrates the requirements for VCB as well as the step by step technical details of using the VCB framework for backing up VMs, restoring VMs, and restoring files.

VCB for DR VMworld 2007 Lab

updated 01.29.08 – You can also download this lab from my Files Page.