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	<title>Jason Conger Blog</title>
	<link>http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger</link>
	<description>Welcome to the Blog of Jason Conger. Here, we will focus on Server Based Computing environments including Microsoft Windows Terminal Services and Citrix Presentation Server, Application and Server virtualization, Application streaming and delivery technologies such as Microsoft Softricity, and many other server-centric topics. Also, I will point out tools and tips to help you with your Terminal Services environments.</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Citrix XenDesktop Webinar</title>
		<link>http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/31/citrix-xendesktop-webinar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Conger</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
	<category>Virtualization Tips &#038; Tricks</category>
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VD) is really combination of technologies including, but not limited to, hardware virtualization, application virtualization, presentation virtualization, desktop broker. Citrix has a really nice solution to VDI called XenDesktop. XenDesktop is one of the more complete solution out there since Citrix owns technology for each required piece. But, what is interesting about XenDesktop is that you do not have to use all Citrix components. <a href="http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/31/citrix-xendesktop-webinar/">more...</a>]]></description>

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		<title>Podcast with VMWare about Thinstall/ThinApp</title>
		<link>http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/30/podcast-with-vmware-about-thinstallthinapp/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/30/podcast-with-vmware-about-thinstallthinapp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Conger</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
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Brian Madden recently sat down with some of VMWare's staff to discuss various technologies within the company. One of those sit-downs turned into a really interesting podcast about VMWare ThinApp. ThinApp is a technology VMWare acquired earlier this year (although at the time the technology/company was called Thinstall). ThinApp is an application virtualization technology that has some similarities to Microsoft App-V (there are quite a bit of differences too). <a href="http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/30/podcast-with-vmware-about-thinstallthinapp/">more...</a>]]></description>

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		<title>Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Storage Options</title>
		<link>http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/30/microsoft-windows-server-2008-hyper-v-storage-options/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/30/microsoft-windows-server-2008-hyper-v-storage-options/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Conger</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
	<category>Virtualization Tips &#038; Tricks</category>
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There are many storage scenarios with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Since you are dealing with host and guest Operating Systems, it is important to know the storage combinations for Hyper-V. The host OS can support directly-attached storage (SATA, SAS) or SAN storage (Fiber Channel, iSCSI). Once storage is attached to the host, it can be exposed to the guest in a number of ways. <a href="http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/30/microsoft-windows-server-2008-hyper-v-storage-options/">more...</a>]]></description>

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		<title>Introduction to PC-over-IP</title>
		<link>http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/28/introduction-to-pc-over-ip/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/28/introduction-to-pc-over-ip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Conger</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
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   		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever heard of PC-over-IP (PCoIP)? PCoIP is a presentation protocol (much like RDP or ICA) introduced by Teradici. The difference in PC-over-IP is that it utilizes hardware chipsets on the server and client. This technology enables centralized desktops and supports high definition audio and video, transparent USB support, web cams, Bluetooth, VoIP, scanners, printers (including multi-function), etc. <a href="http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/28/introduction-to-pc-over-ip/">more...</a>]]></description>

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		<title>Microsoft is Relaxing License Restrictions for Easier Virtualization Environments</title>
		<link>http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/27/microsoft-is-relaxing-license-restrictions-for-easier-virtualization-environments/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/27/microsoft-is-relaxing-license-restrictions-for-easier-virtualization-environments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Conger</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
	<category>Virtualization Tips &#038; Tricks</category>
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Microsoft recently announced that starting September 1, 2008 "...customers will be able to move any of 41 Microsoft server applications between servers within a server farm as often as necessary without paying additional licensing fees, and they can take advantage of expanded specialized technical support." This licensing change makes it possible to reassign licenses from one server to another within a server farm as frequently as needed. <a href="http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/27/microsoft-is-relaxing-license-restrictions-for-easier-virtualization-environments/">more...</a>]]></description>

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		<title>Virtual Server and Backup Solutions</title>
		<link>http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/27/virtual-server-and-backup-solutions/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/27/virtual-server-and-backup-solutions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Conger</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
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So, how do you backup virtual servers? Traditionally, there have been two main schools of thought on this. One is to think of the virtual machine as a physical machine and install a backup agent on the VM. Then, just select what you need backed up just as you would a physical machine. <a href="http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/27/virtual-server-and-backup-solutions/">more...</a>]]></description>

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		<title>Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with a TS Broker</title>
		<link>http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/26/virtual-desktop-infrastructure-with-a-ts-broker/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/26/virtual-desktop-infrastructure-with-a-ts-broker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Conger</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
	<category>Virtualization Tips &#038; Tricks</category>
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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is not really a technology in and of itself. Really, VDI is a combination of technologies. You need hardware virtualization (like VMWare ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V, or Citrix XenServer to name a few). You need some sort of application and/or presentation virtualization (like Citrix XenApp, Microsoft Terminal Services, Provision, etc.) to execute applications on the virtual desktops. You also need a remoting protocol such as RDP, ICA, or SPICE. <a href="http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/26/virtual-desktop-infrastructure-with-a-ts-broker/">more...</a>]]></description>

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		<title>Performance Tuning for Microsoft Hyper-V VMs</title>
		<link>http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/25/performance-tuning-for-microsoft-hyper-v-vms/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/25/performance-tuning-for-microsoft-hyper-v-vms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Conger</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
	<category>Virtualization Tips &#038; Tricks</category>
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If you are running Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V in your environment (or even if you are thinking about running Hyper-V in your environment), then you should definitely take a look at this white paper published by Microsoft titled "Performance Tuning Guidelines for Windows Server 2008". This white paper "...describes important tuning parameters and settings that can result in improved performance for the Windows Server® 2008 operating system. <a href="http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/25/performance-tuning-for-microsoft-hyper-v-vms/">more...</a>]]></description>

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		<title>Xen Enterprise 4.1 versus ESX 3.5</title>
		<link>http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/20/xen-enterprise-41-versus-esx-35/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/20/xen-enterprise-41-versus-esx-35/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Conger</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Virtualization Tips &#038; Tricks</category>
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During this year's BriForum, Ron Oglesby did an independent performance comparison between the Xen hypervisor and VMWare ESX 3.5. Keep in mind that Ron does not work for either VMWare or Citrix (and, oh yeah, Ron wrote the book on virtualization). I must admit that the results were somewhat surprising. In almost every performance test Xen was comparable and even faster than ESX. But, you don't have to take my work for it. <a href="http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/20/xen-enterprise-41-versus-esx-35/">more...</a>]]></description>

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		<title>VMWare Update 2 Timebomb and Risk Mitigation</title>
		<link>http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/15/vmware-update-2-timebomb-and-risk-mitigation/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/15/vmware-update-2-timebomb-and-risk-mitigation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Conger</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
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I am sure you have heard about the VMWare Update 2 fiasco by now. So, VMWare has fixed the issue with an express update, but are there things you can do in your own data center ti mitigate this kind of risk? Gabe Knuth has written an article on BrianMadden.com addressing this specific question. <a href="http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/conger/2008/08/15/vmware-update-2-timebomb-and-risk-mitigation/">more...</a>]]></description>

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