Apart from the best-known advantages brought by desktop virtualization, such as cost savings and the improvement in the management of IT resources, the deployment of virtual desktops also facilitates the work of IT administrators when they have to to give support and install updates.
The effectiveness of the support service directly impacts in the business, since the time that goes by when a PC stops operating until the issue is repaired is an inactive time for the user, so the company’s productivity is automatically affected.
Red Hat and SUSE gave up Ext file system last year and started using Btrfs and XFS. For this reason, many users are wondering whether they should follow the steps of the two main professional Linux distributions in the market and stop using Btrfs on their PC. It’s been verified that Btrfs has really good advanced features which improve storage’s management and security. Thus, it is suitable for system administrators. Meanwhile, XFS seems to be the perfect solution for virtualization, data base, app and cloud environments, where speed and scalability are needed.
We continue our post series about VDI adoption and lifecycle management of virtual desktops. In previous articles we talked about the planning , acquisition and the deployment of the new fleet of desktops. Today this analysis comes to an end talking about operating with virtual desktops.
Operating with virtual desktops has certain significant differences with respect to operating with standard platforms:
The recent release of a new version of XenServer 6.5 and a new version of the XenServer Workload Balancing (WLB) adds more features, a better user interface, more advanced monitoring features and changes in licensing, making this technology really useful for Citrix XenServer, XenDesktop, HDX and XenApp users.
The WLB is made up of 4 layers. The upper layer is the most important, since it allows to automate workload balancing, but the most used and powerful are the 3 underlying layers.
A few weeks ago we told you how the University of Sevilla achieved a significant cost saving migrating from vsphere to oVirt. Today we come back to this topic to describe the VDI architecture used by this organization to make the most out of its resources.
First of all, it is necessary to have a suitable chassis to the virtual infrastructure deployed. The University of Sevilla uses Dell Blade iron they already had and they have been incorporating Blade servers to add new elements to the infrastructure. In this way, the initial investment was not too expensive, and as you can extend it easity, it turns out to be a quite affordable solution and easy to pay off.
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