One of our favorite blog authors William Lam has posted some interesting news regarding vShere Web Client. He did some experience regarding Google Crome. Here is his article, or simply scroll down for his latest blog. On Saturday, I started to notice that logins to the vSphere Web (Flex) Client stopped working with Google Chrome. Upon a successful […]
Detect and avoid VDI performance problems
Building an integrated testing scenario to detect and avoid VDI performance problems The company Login VSI sells a complete software solution to help digital workspace managers to optimize and safeguard the performance and availability of their virtual desktop production environments. Performance and availability are key dimensions of a good end-user experience and therefore very important […]
Kevin and Kevin at Microsoft Ignite 2017 Video
Kevin Kaminski interviews Kevin Goodman at Microsoft Ignite 2017 to discuss FSLogix including the challenges that companies face when migrating to Office 365. “Today’s episode features Kevin Goodman who has been a long time fixture in the server-based computing, later known as virtual desktop infrastructure, world. Kevin founded RTO Software and had been involved with […]
Advanced Backup Job Scheduling with Calendar Dashboard
Backing up virtual machines, especially in large virtual environments with hundreds or even thousands of VMs, is a time-consuming process that imposes extra load on your VMware, Hyper-V, or AWS infrastructure and its critical components, such as network, hypervisor hosts, and, of course, datastores. If multiple VM backup jobs coincide in time, this can result […]
Black Holes – Casting shadows on SQL Server Parallelism
October 31, 2017 DataCore 0 For any of you who’ve struggled trying to tweak degrees of parallelism (DoP) and affinity masks in multi-core SQL Servers to chop down query times, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news first: your well-intentioned attempts are being defeated by an insidious collection of choke […]
How to configure a Bring-your-Own NetScaler VPX in Azure for XenDesktop Essentials and XenApp and XenDesktop Service from the Citrix Cloud
In addition to my latest blog article – How to configure the Citrix Cloud XenApp and XenDesktop Service using Azure Managed Disks and Citrix Optimizer – I’m now sharing my insights on how to use an own NetScaler VPX and StoreFront server inside Azure IaaS (Infrastructure-As-a-Service) to provide access to your Citrix Cloud Digital Workspace […]
The complexity of password complexity
Deploying password quality checking on your Debian-base Linux servers can help to ensure that your users assign reasonable passwords on their accounts, but the settings themselves can be a bit misleading. For example, setting a minimum password length of 12 characters does not mean that your users’ passwords will all have twelve or more characters. […]
Book Review: Practical Packet Analysis: Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network Problems
The overall equation is pretty simple: If you want to understand network traffic, you really should install Wireshark. And, if you really want to use Wireshark effectively, you should consider this book. Already in its third edition, Practical Packet Analysis both explains how Wireshark works and provides expert guidance on how you can use the […]