INI files and SMB dialect negotiations
Why did an application get 30 times slower start-up time when we moved it from XenApp on 2008R2 to 2012R2? I was aware of the disadvantage of having a file share on a server Continue Reading →
View ArticleGPUPerf 2.0 – Realtime GPU and remote protocol counters
This is an updated version of the GPUPerf tool http://virtexperience.com/2014/05/12/gpuperf-realtime-gpu-and-hdx-info/ What is it? GPUPerf is a small tool that will show you real-time information about...
View ArticleUsing GPUPerf2 and other free tools for XenApp bandwidth scale testing
Do you know how much bandwidth you Citrix solution will consume? How can you predict the bandwidth load on remote locations? In this blogpost I will show you how you Continue Reading →
View ArticleCtxUpdate 2 – A powershell script to download all Citrix updates. Support for...
Finding and downloading citrix updates is a time consuming process. A while ago I created a simple powershell script to download Citrix hotfixes. This is an updated version of that Continue Reading →
View ArticleFixing Citrix Receiver – duplicate icons and stores
When moving from one storefront server to another I’ve experienced that Citrix Receiver gets multiple stores and multiple icons after switching to the new server using the same DNS name. Continue...
View ArticleMythbusting Browser GPU usage on XenApp
We all know that browsers a quite resource intensive both on CPU and Memory. The question is, will a GPU help saving CPU resources in a XenApp or XenDesktop Continue Reading →
View ArticleHow to use Click-to-Photon to measure End to End latency
At NVIDIA GRIDDAYS in March 2016 we were introduced to the concept Click-to-Photon, which is a method that NVIDIA is using for measuring end to end latency in a remote Continue Reading →
View ArticleHow to get awesome video performance with XenApp and Raspberry Pi thin client
There is a lot of excitement these days about the performance of the Raspberry Pi as thin client for XenApp and XenDesktop. I’ve made a video with a side by Continue Reading →
View ArticleHow to restore a corrupt Xenserver database using notepad
I was helping a customer with restoring a large Xenserver farm that had been corrupted after joining a new Xenserver to the farm. XAPI service stopped and would not start Continue Reading →
View ArticleOptimizing Autocad cursor lag on XenDesktop
One of the problems with Autocad on XenDesktop and XenApp is that it has a special cursor (crosshair) that needs to run remote, therefore causes a lag in the user Continue Reading →
View ArticleBetter monitoring for Nvidia GRID vGPU and new tools to leverage it
One of the things that has been lacking with Nvidia Grid vGPU is the ability to monitor vGPU performance. Up until now this could only be done from host level, Continue Reading →
View ArticleWhy Nvidia NVENC Hardware H.264 encoder is important for Citrix XenDesktop...
With Nvidia Grid there is a Hardware H.264 encoder and decoder built into the GPU. With VMware Horizon 7, and Citrix XenDesktop 7.11 you can leverage this to hardware encode Continue Reading →
View ArticleGPUPerf 3.0
GPUPerf 3.0 is now available for download The idea of this tol was actually from another tool called FRAPS, that shows in real-time how many frames per second (FPS) that Continue Reading →
View ArticleGraphics in the cloud – My experience with Azure, Amazon and Softlayer
Lately I’ve been playing with different GPU solutions in the Cloud; Amazon, Azure and Softlayer. Here is some experience and thoughts I have about it. I believe GPU in the Continue Reading →
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