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BriForum 2006 To Include Technical Sessions About Mixing Citrix And VMware

Thursday, 09 March 2006 by Michel Roth

Seemingly, of all the great sessions, this session appears to be a reason to devote a press release to:

One of the key topics at this year's conference will cover how people can mix VMware and virtualization into their Citrix and Terminal Server environment. For example, people have always used Citrix and Terminal Server to provide access to business-critical applications. However, in the past few years, VMware has become very popular. While it was previously only used for test labs and experimental purposes, real people are starting to use VMware for production purposes, and this also extends into the server-based computing world.

One member of the BriForum 2006 expert staff is Ron Oglesby, coauthor of several books including "VMware ESX Server: Advanced Technical Design Guide" and "Microsoft Windows 2003 Terminal Services: Advanced Technical Design Guide." Ron will be conducting two sessions about VMware. One session will discuss operationalizing your VMware environments by focusing on what you really need to know to take the leap in getting your VMware servers out of the lab and into production. This is not pie-in-the-sky theory stuff; this is real war stories about real people and real companies.

The popularity of VMware has also caused people to think about how they deploy applications. While a common solution has also been to use Citrix, now people are starting to combine VMware and Citrix in some novel ways. For example, instead of using Citrix to provide remote desktops to users, administrators can build a VMware server that hosts Windows XP Professional workstation virtual machines, and then users can connect in a one-to-one fashion via RDP and remote desktop to their computer. Alternatively, administrators could build a Citrix server and run VMware Workstation or Microsoft's Virtual PC on the Citrix server, making Windows XP Professional virtual machines available to users as published applications.

At BriForum 2006, Brian Madden and Shawn Bass will lead a technical discussion about all of these new virtualization-based application architectures, and Ron Oglesby will present the results of a study he conducted comparing the performance of different architectures (Citrix native applications versus Windows XP on a VMware server versus Windows XP virtual machines on a Citrix server.)

Read the rest of the press release here.