Baselining Performance using Liquidware Stratusphere UX

This afternoon I was on an interesting and informative webinar hosted by Liquidware in which they discussed using SpotCheck Inspection of an environment as a means to provide visibility into the user experience. NOTE: Let me make this clear, in this post I'm focus on VDI in regards to a SpotCheck inspection, but Stratusphere's scope is … Continue reading Baselining Performance using Liquidware Stratusphere UX

VDI – Adding Notes to Horizon VMs to ID Citrix App Layering Image Templates

I had a Citrix App Layering (formerly Unidesk) customer ask me recently if there was an easy way to display or determine the OS layer version of a given virtual desktop from within vCenter.  Prior versions of CAL/Unidesk 2.x “built” the virtual desktops itself, meaning it did not rely on Horizon tools like Composer to … Continue reading VDI – Adding Notes to Horizon VMs to ID Citrix App Layering Image Templates

XenDesktop 7.14 – Blank Spaces on Multi-Monitor Displays

If you are configuring multi-monitor end user stations to connect to Citrix XenDesktop virtual desktops, you may find blank/black spaces on the some or all of the monitors...something like this: On the VDI image, I installed the Citrix 7.14 VDA.  Thus, to resolve this issue I did the following: Open the registry (regedit) and navigate … Continue reading XenDesktop 7.14 – Blank Spaces on Multi-Monitor Displays