Lost in the excitement surrounding the announcement of Citrix XenDesktop 7, was the announcement that Citrix VDI-in-a-Box received very well Curacao project will be published in as VDI-in-a -Box 5.3 at the end of June. This latest version sharing some important Citrix XenDesktop technologies to 7. Here is what this means for our partners and customers
VDI-in-a-Box is to stay the course . Interested in a move to Windows 8? VDI-in-a-Box 5.3 now supports Windows 8, like XenDesktop; Personal vDisk is now supported on Windows 8 and Windows 7; and you get to take advantage of DirectX and other video enhancements provided the latest HDX technologies. And it does not matter what hypervisor you want to use, as we support the latest version of XenServer and Hyper-V and vSphere. If you have been considering a move to Server 2012, VDI-in-a-Box 5.3 now supports as virtual desktop with native support of VHD and the new formats of VHDX.
VDI -in-a-Box continues enhancing its integration with other Citrix products: Have you been wondering if SSO is supported Citrix Access Gateway ? Well the answer is "yes." Citrix NetScaler Access Gateway / now enables your users to connect to the Access Gateway, and their credentials are passed directly to VDI-in-a-Box. IT people will appreciate the information enhancements to the image Distributing troubleshooting tool and centralized collection of log files - instead of having to pull them individually from each server in the grid. We also tweaked the internal product quite a bit to make VDI-in-a-Box 5.3 more robust and higher performance.
VDI-in-a-Box 5.3 improves the overall computing experience: There have been a number of improvements focused on making it work is simpler. We created an installation user interface SSL certificate which greatly enhances the experience when dealing with the certificates. With the new Universal Print Server - the same as XenDesktop, you do not need to load multiple network printer drivers on your images. Even the end user license agreement (EULA) acceptance process has been improved (it is now made in the product, consistent with other Citrix products).
For more details, check out David Liu May 22 nd blog ( / blogs / 2013/05/22 / citrix vdi-in-a-box -5-3 / ).
Also check Dell's DVS Simplified Appliance . There is a real hardware device that comes with the hypervisor of choice and factory installed 3 years and VDI-in-a-Box virtual machine Dell ProSupport - all for a price that is less than a refresh PC. Unbox the device and gate it; connect it to your network; start the VDI-in-a-Box vdiManager; and you are ready to import and prep your master image, configure your models and affect your users. That's all there is to go live with the full Windows virtual desktops.
And, once you have completed your test, the transition to a production environment only requires adding servers to support the total number of concurrent users, plus a server to provide more high availability.
Throughout the coming weeks, the team VDI-in-a-Box will be written on some of the new features in more detail. So stay tuned.
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