Management of user profiles in VDI environments

Management of user profiles in VDI environments

A few weeks ago we talked about Hace unas semanas tratamos en nuestro blog la issues in the management of user profiles in VDI environments. Today we are going to discuss the most appropiate solutions.

One solution is the use of mobile profiles. These profiles are defined through the Active Directory group policy, storing the user data in a shared resource. The mobile profile will allow the user data to become available from any Windows device: a physical desktop, virtual desktop or a Terminal Services user session. This data is loaded at the start of a session and the changes made to the profile during the session are saved upon closing it. In the case of non-persistent desktops, the use of mobile profiles is clear, since the user is assigned a new desktop in the infrastructure with each session start-up, loading the mobile profile stored in a network resource during the start-up process.

How to avoid the 8 most common errors in VDI

How to avoid the 8 most common errors in VDI

A recent report from IDC says that a 300% ROI can be achieved with desktop virtualization. But in order to get such positive results, it is necessary to plan carefully all the steps to be followed.

Below we summarize the eight most common errors when deploying a VDI project:

VDI architecture, XenServer & VMI

VDI architecture, XenServer & VMI

The VDI architecture used by the University of Sevilla, the improvements in Citrix XenServer Workload Balancing an the new mobile virtual infrastruture have been the top 3 topics in our blog during the last two weeks.

Find below the links to these posts and have a look at them to find out why our followers have found them so interesting:

VDI architecture with oVirt, KVM & UDS Enterprise

Analysis: improvements in Citrix XenServer Workload Balancing

After VDI there comes VMI, the virtual mobile infrastructure

UDS Enterprise in The Linux Foundation’s Guide to the Open Cloud

UDS Enterprise in The Linux Foundation’s Guide to the Open Cloud

The Linux Foundation has released this week its second annual Guide to the Open Cloud, with a compillation of Open Source projects used by organizations to build from scratch its open clouds.

The report includes 18 new projects that are becoming increasingly important within the sector. Among them, we find oVirt virtualization platform and UDS Enterprise appears highlighted in this part of the guide (page 15) as one of the projects that actively supports this initiative endorsed by Red Hat. UDS Enterprise is compatible with oVirt and the use of both solutions, together with KVM hypervisor, enables you to deploy Open Source virtual desktops.

Hyper-V enhancements for Linux Virtual Machines

Hyper-V enhancements for Linux Virtual Machines

The initial version of Hyper-V only supported one minimal feature for Linux virtual machines (VM) through the installation of an additional component called Linux Integration Services (LIS). But recently, Microsoft has been working with providers to add new features without having to install SIL in newer Linux distributions.

One of the most awaited is the Dynamic Memory. The addition and removal of memory are now fully compatible with virtual machines running on a Windows Server Linux 2012 R2 Hyper-V host. It is important to note that this function is only available for 64-bit Linux distros and in some of them it is necessary to enable support, for example in CentOS and Red Hat Linux distributions.

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