Suprise! We do talk with Storage Vendors

Surprise! We do talk with storage vendors

Nice blog from Simon Crosby on Desktop Virtualisation Infrastructures and appropriate management of disk writes, intellicache, etc.

http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2011/01/25/Surprise%21+We+do+talk+with+storage+vendors

XenServer SR-IOV Support for Provisioning Services Virtual Machines

As companies virtualize more and more of their server infrastructure they are increasingly interested in virtualizing Provisioning Services hosts. However, the significant level of network IO that occurs on a Provisioning Services host can be challenging for the virtualization platform. This article describes how to virtualize Provisioning Services hosts with maximum performance and scalability by leveraging Single Route I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) capabilities of Intel Niantic Network Interface Cards (NICs) with XenServer (versions 5.6 and later).

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX126624