In response to a blog on the Citrix website giving an overview of storage requirements for XenDesktop.
A useful overview of storage requirements, but I'm surprised you didn't take the opportunity to emphasise the fact that Provisioning Server is brilliant(!), and because of this you can cancel your SAN order, as you don't need any storage!!
As the article says your image will be about 10-20GB, so it will fit perfectly on local storage, even if you have a number of images.
You're probably thinking I need shared storage for XenDesktop Pools, but do you? If you don't have shared storage available, all you need to do is install a Linux server and create a NFS share for the Desktops and away you go. Obviously the Linux Server can be virtualised (using XenServer!) making the cost minimal.
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Hi Gordon,
Thanks for responding, thought I'd share my experiences. I understand your initial thoughts, as I remember sitting in the initial Citrix NDA Brieifings hearing about how this is a great tool for LAN based environments, whilst I was thinking this is great tool for Mobile environments!
I've since had the privelege of meeting the XenDesktop team in the UK and I think they were also surprised (and pleased!) at what I was trying to achieve. The project I'm involved in is now well under way, and working well.
Also, thanks for checking out XenPro, I aim to share most of my XenDesktop experiences on there and hopefully it will become a useful resource for other XenDesktop users.
Thanks for your support,
James