Aug
24
Citrix Open vSwitch Appears Online
Filed Under Open vSwitch | 1 Comment
I received a tweet today from Scott Lowe making a mention of the new vSwitch that Citrix is introducing. Several comments followed on twitter from other VMware employees regarding the Open vSwitch versus the Nexus 1000V.
The vSwitch is still in beta. It does appear to be a good addition/capability for XenServer.
Read more here and here on the new Open vSwitch from Citrix.
Aug
19
Since Provisioning Server is such a key component to a XenDesktop implementation, I started gathering key sources of information on Provisioning Server implementation, configuration, and availability best practices. After playing around in the lab with Provisioning Server I felt that there was some additional considerations lacking. Thus, my search for further information. Read more
Aug
2
The Thrilla In California: Debating Hypervisor Performance
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This is a very interesting video on VMware (Scott Drummonds – Technical Marketing Manager of VMware Performance Group) and Citrix ( Simon Crosby – Citrix CTO) debating hypervisor performance at the Burton Group Catalyst Conference last week.
Here is a little more description on the debate from the Burton Group:
For the past 2 years, Citrix and VMware have used the blogosphere as their virtual sparring ground for a debate on hypervisor performance. While each vendor has contributed a wealth of information on virtual infrastructure performance to the online community, both continue to passionately disagree on how their respective hypervisors stand up to enterprise-class production workloads, as well as how best to measure performance in virtual environments. In this debate, VMware and Citrix have offered their most knowledgeable and passionate voices in the realm of virtual infrastructure performance: Simon Crosby (CTO – Citrix) and Scott Drummonds (Manager, Technical Marketing VMware).
