Category Archives: Hardware

Encountering Thin Clients & Citrix XenApp in the Wild

Posted on March 1, 2012 by

So my wife and I got to spend several unplanned days in the hospital this week when our baby decided he didn’t want to wait any longer to enter the world.  The awesome news is Spencer Alexander was born healthy, … Continue reading →

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On the road – NetScaler training

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

A coworker and I are spending the week out of town attending a NetScaler administration class.  We typically try to stagger training like this, but NetScaler classes seem to pop up with much less frequency than XenDesktop or XenApp classes, … Continue reading →

Posted in Hardware, Training/Education | 3 Comments

Storage – Who knew it could be so cool?

Posted on October 28, 2011 by

I’m the first one to admit that when I first began investigating the possibility of deploying a large Citrix XenDesktop / virtual desktop environment, I knew very little about storage, and especially SAN storage.  My experience was limited to configuring … Continue reading →

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Samsung Chromebook Round 2

Posted on July 29, 2011 by

After using the Samsung Chromebook for about a week, I have determined that standard users will be alright with the browser-only computing experience; however power users and system administrators like us would only be hindered. First thing I wanted to … Continue reading →

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A Little UCS Geekery

Posted on June 27, 2011 by

Here are two quick pics of the innards, or at least the motherboard, of a UCS B230 M1 blade.  One of the B230s in our FlexPod had some kind of issue and was swapped soon after arrival at our data … Continue reading →

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FlexPods have landed

Posted on June 22, 2011 by

Update: Forgot to include the specs on our FlexPods.  Have included those at the bottom of the post. Something awesome happened this week – the hardware on which we’ll be running my virtual desktop project and more has arrived!  Here … Continue reading →

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