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Discussions about VDI Solutions VMware Horizon and Citrix XenDesktop on Nutanix

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ryanogburnVoyager
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OS Gold Image Best Practices | NTFS Allocation Unit Size

I've been doing some research on best practices when creating a gold OS image for VDI. Some vendors (e.g., EMC) recommend using 8k vs the default 4k with Windows 7. Obviously this has a lot to do with vendor based storage and overall design. Is there a specific OS NTFS allocation unit size Nutanix recommends when staging a gold image based on Nutanix storage technology? Any thoughts would be appreciated. References: http://blog.millennia.it/2011/01/11/making-a-leaner-fitter-windows-7-virtual-desk/http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/white-papers/h8043-windows-virtual-desktop-view-wp.pdfhttp://www.amazon.com/Implementing-VMware-Horizon-View-5-2/dp/184968796X

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Jon
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BG_selfcloudAdventurer
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Convert Windows Development Image to Acropolis

Anybody figured out how to convert or modify a Windows Developer image (these ones: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines) to run on Acropolis? Looking to allow these builds to simplify some Developer testing being as they're updated about monthly by Microsoft and include the tools necessary to work within them. The flavors are Hyper-V, VMware, Parallels and VirtualBox. I quickly attempted uploaded the vmdk from the VMware version, but of course get bitten by the virtIO driver necessity with Windows. Trying to review options to copy the drivers into the disk or something, just starting to research. Point being, building from scratch isn't what I'm interested in, I want to be able to simply pull down this image (OVA, OVF, VHD, VMDK) and convert it to KVM/Acropolis...if possible.

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Jon
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Maikel_Gaedker
Maikel_GaedkerAdventurer
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Solved: OSD via SCCM problem

Hello, i ran into an error with my OS-Deployment via SCCM on my AHV cluster. I apply the Nutanix related drivers in the Tasksequence with following query: Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem Where Model LIKE "KVM" This worked for me all the time. After i migrated the cluster to AOS5.0 this step is skipped in the tasksequence with a message that says that this condition is FALSE. Could it be, that a newly created vm an a AOS5.0 based cluster displays another Model?My running vms on this cluster still show KVM as modul, so i'm a little bit confused.

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saranrajappaAdventurer
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iSCSI container and Controller Avg I/O Latency

We have iSCSI container of 14TB created and presented to MSFT FS cluster using EXTERNAL DATA SERVICES IP ADDRESS. Network - 10Gbps, VMs are in same Nutanix Cluster and ESXi 6.0 is the Hypervisor. 39 node cluster I am seeing Controller Avg I/O Latency of 100+ms. Is this normal!?

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lucagiugnoAdventurer
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Adding automatically static Horizon desktop to protection domain

Hello, i've realized a project with two nutanix cluster and Horizon VDI with static desktop.Desktop are replicated with protection domain between two sites. Someone know if in Nutanix there is a method to add automatically desktops to a protection domain? Thank you and best regards Luca

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vcdxnz001
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vcdxnz001Nutanix Employee
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20K to 200K+ VDI Desktops on Nutanix

Subsequent to the recent VDI Assurance program announcement I published a blog article about what an infrastructure to support 20K to 200K+ Power User desktops might look like on Nutanix. I thought this might be of interest. Not only is this solution incredibly space efficient, what you see is the complete server, storage and network required, but it's also incredibly power efficient. With the new Nutanix VDI Assurance Program it makes any scale VDI even more accessible and beneficial to everyone.

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PhilomenaWayfarer
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VDI Licenses model

My one of the client would like to use the Nutanix setup from the existing environment but we have purchased 300 licenses for VDI. If we migrated into the nutanix setup whether we can use that existing VDI licenses.

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dready
dreadyAdventurer
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XenDesktop 7.11 on AHV (Plug-in compatability)

The Nutanix MCS Plug-in seems not to workwith latest VDA release of XenDesktop 7.11. Can you confirm this incompatability? Is there a newer Version of the Plug-in that works with XenDesktop 7.11?

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steve57Adventurer
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Write latency in a VDI POC

We are performing a POC at a customer site using a 3 node DELL XC720xd cluster. The statistics taken from Vcenter show an average read letency around 1 ms and a write latency aroud 5-6 ms. The write latency seems way too high since it should just make 2 writes (base and replica) on SSD. I wonder if the CVM has a timer before it flushes the pending writes to the oplog. This could help generally speaking to reduce the number of I/O and increase the size which is good for SSD. Unfortunatey in our POC we are fighting against the current configuration of server with Fusion-IO PCI cards and this approach could be a disadvantage. Another important parameter is the logon time which average at 35-40 sec on the current system and goes up to 75 sec with Nutanix. Any suggestion to speed up the Nutanix Cluster may be modifying some parameter?

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akasitplusVoyager
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Xendesktop7.9 with Hypervisor Acropolis

if I want to select a connection type for connect to Hypervisor Acropolis and Provisioning desktop via using PVS, how i will be to choose the connection type?

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Maikel_Gaedker
Maikel_GaedkerAdventurer
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Choosing the right XenDesktop Version

Hello there, i'll do my first project on a Nutanix platform and need a little hint. We normaly run XD7.6 LTSR for our sites but i'm not sure about Nutanix MCS integration on this on so far. With 7.9 there is an integration for Desktop Studio after installing the Nutanix plugin. Any possibility to get such an integration for XD7.6? If not. Do you think 7.9 will be the better way? I guess it will be.

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RamyVoyager
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Citrix XenDesktop 7.9 integration with Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor

Step By Step: Citrix XenDesktop 7.9 integration with Nutanix AHV http://nutanixpedia.com/p/xendesktop-integration-with-nutanix.html

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BobJamesAdventurer
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Nutanix SRA

Where can I download Nutanix SRA for use with SRM?

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chhedaNutanix Employee
posted in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
XenDesktop on Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor: 8 Steps

has written a great blog on how to deploy and deliver virtual desktops through XenDesktop running on Acropolis Hypervisor using 8 simple steps in a short crisp blog -- http://blog.myvirtualvision.com/2015/12/03/nutanix-acropolis-xendesktop-8-simple-steps/. Worth a read!

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kparkinVoyager
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Best Practices for Horizen View

I see that the Best practices for Horizon View (V2.7.2 August 2014) was written for Horizon View 5.3, on page 19, it is suggested to use "KB2914680 - I/O delays in windows 7 SP1 or Wndows Server 2008 R2 SP1" if creating user profile or user data on a file server. My question is does this still apply if we are running Horizon View 6.1.0? I'm having persona isues and was wondering if this KB2914680 still applies to my version.

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sidPathfinder
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Does anyone have info how Nutanix is diferent to Atlantis UCX SDS solution pls?

Does anyone have info how Nutanix is difrerent to Atlantis UCX SDS solution pls?

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virtualcreolPathfinder
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deduplication for Persitent Desktop for developer machine, would you recommend? some feedback please

I have a 5 nodes cluster with 6TB of Data, I'm in the process of migrating Persitent Desktops from NetApp to Nutanix Storage, I have a group of Developers that requesting 300 GB drive space each for their session, we are talking about 10 +, 3.5 TB . Now I have other users on that same cluster as well. Thus far performace is good with the migrated users, I just don't want to add the additional workload in the environment, over allocate my storage, pretty much rely on the deduplication Questions? would you recommend deduplication for Developpers VDI sessions? let's say we have a hickup on the storage side, and we need to power on all the machines? What is recommended best practices to enable deduplication, do we have a best practices guide?

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cbrown
Nutanix Employee
vcdxnz001
Nutanix Employee
vcdxnz001Nutanix Employee
posted in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Rapid Provisioning of Linux VDI Desktops with Horizon View on Nutanix

Hi All, I thought you might be interested in the blog article I posted on rapid provisioning of Linux VDI desktops with Horizon View on Nutanix. I have included all the scripts I used to make this work. Hope you like it. http://longwhiteclouds.com/2015/08/06/rapid-provisioning-linux-vdi-desktops-with-horizon-view/ Kind regards, Michael

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aluciani
alucianiChevalier
posted in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Andrew Mills Talks Citrix + Nutanix at Citrix Synergy 2015

Greg Fox, Director of Alliance Marketing at Citrix speaks with Andrew Mills, Senior Manager of VDI Alliances at Nutanix, to discuss the Citrix/Nutanix partnership.

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aluciani
alucianiChevalier
posted in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Nutanix Achieves Citrix Ready Certification For ShareFile Enterprise

ShareFile gives users true enterprise-class file sync and share data service across all corporate and personal mobile devices, while giving IT all the control it needs. Users can–for easy collaboration and enhanced productivity–access, sync and securely share files from any device with people both inside and outside the organization. With ShareFile, organizations have the flexibility to choose where their data is stored: on premises, in the cloud or a combination of both to meet their specific needs for data sovereignty, compliance, performance and costs. Nutanix, an enterprise virtualization and storage company, simplifies datacenter infrastructure by integrating server and storage resources into a turnkey appliance that is deployed in just 30 to 60 minutes, and runs any application at any scale. Nutanix offers cost-effective, anytime access to enterprise data that has built-in enterprise capabilities. These include de-duplication, compression, snapshot, site-level replication a

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DaemonBehr
DaemonBehrAdventurer
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QoS for voice traffic prioritization in Horizon View

I'm looking at using Cisco IP Communicator on a Horizon View persistant desktop and would like some input on what others suggest for voice traffic prioritization. Some options I see: 1> Saying "It's on 10GB, it's fine" 2> Using a separate network (port group and VLAN) specifically for voice on a VSS with 1GB uplinks 3> Using a separate network (port group and VLAN) specifically for voice on a VDS with 1GB uplinks pinned to the port group 4> Using a separate network (port group and VLAN) specifically for voice on a VDS with 10GB uplinks 5> Using a separate network (port group and VLAN) specifically for voice on a VDS with 10GB uplinks and traffic prioritization on the TOR switches for the voice VLAN using IP Precedence (differentiated services code point [dscp]) audio priority. Any thoughts community?

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aluciani
alucianiChevalier
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Introducing: vGPU on vSphere, installation and troubleshooting tips

At Nutanix the last couple of days I’ve been invGPUvolved in the testing of the new vGPU features from vSphere 6 in combination with the new NVIDIA grid drivers so that vGPU would also be available for desktops delivered via Horizon 6 on vSphere 6. During this initial phase I worked together with Martijn Bosschaart to get this installation covered and after an evening of configuring and troubleshooting I thought it would be a good idea to write a blogpost on this new feature that is coming. What is vGPU and why do I need it? vGPU profiles deliver dedicated graphics memory by leveraging the vGPU Manager to assign the configured memory for each desktop. Each VDI instance will have pre-determined amount of resources based on their needs or better yet based on the needs of their applications. By using the vGPU profiles from the vGPU Manager you can share each physical GPU, for example a NVIDIA GRID K1 card has up to 4 physical GPU’s which can host up to 8 users per physical GPU re

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Chaiyarit_SExplorer
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Feeds Log prism management to siem

I problem feeds log for prism management to siem through syslog on CVM wish nutanix can you do it?

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CampbellDNZWayfarer
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VMware/Unidesk/XenDesktop/Nutanix

Hi Everyone, We currently run our XenDesktop 5.6 Environment with Unidesk 2.1 and have only one main issue that we would like to see resolved. With Unidesk the VMDX disks (which contain the layer information) are classed as non-persistent drives. As a result when re reboot the Virtual Destkop VM the power on process can talk anywhere between 10-15 minutes - if these disks were persistent - power on is considerably quicker. I have read (ut unable to find the link) that this has been accepted as a VMware issues and currently being worked on - Can anyone shead some light on this as to when VMware will be resolving the problem Cheers Damon

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agnewman66Explorer
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Cluster Latency

Is there a threshold where cluster latency would affect VM performance?

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