If this is a terminal server you'll need to create a user based GPO then enable loopback processing so that a user GPO can apply to a computer.

So how we did it the last place I worked. We used a mix of X2Go, X-11 forwarding/MobaXTerm, and RDP. It depended on the user as to how they wanted to do it.

RDP gave them a full desktop since X2Go couldn't any longer on GNOME 3. X2Go gave them just applications from a menu to pick. People who were used to the cli used X-11 forwarding because it's what they were used to.

You might benefit from this
https://www.carlstalhood.com/receiver-for-windows/#registryvalues

@brandon220 said in How to take advantage of virtualization. Major products get updated:

I plan on setting this up in the lab soon. dm-cache also sounds interesting. I've never touched software RAID because 95% of my environment has been MS for a long time. Always have gone the hw raid route.

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/improving-read-performance-dm-cache

Redhat did some testing with an SSD but it looks ugly. 5 passes and no performance improvement using a SSD. I suspect they are hamstrung by the patent minefield that is ARC (IBM of all people has this patent BTW) and the subsidiary cool optimizations that have been made to it (ARC was intended for CPU cache originally, your storage fun fact of the day!). Also I suspect the IO path on this thing isn't the cleanest. Looks like the Linux kernel file cache is going to be faster which if I"m using that I might as well just give memory to the guest and let it sort it out (especially with the lack of dedupe or single instancing of this cache).

If your looking to speed stuff up I say get "the good stuff".

We got some PMEM DIMMS in the lab, and this stuff is face melting fast. You can "bolt" it on with a DAX file system, but the best way to use it is with applications that have been redesigned to support it. We forked REDIS to support this and got latency 12x better than using local NVMe drives, and 2.8x better tha DAX.
Oracle had 57x better operational latency.
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ok, so according to the presentation a netscaler is:

a load balancer a reverse proxy a SSO gateway a (W)AF (web application firewall)

now first two points can be obtained by haproxy/ngnix

point 3 can be obtained -just googled- for web apps by naxsi + nginx or modsec + nginx/apache.

also point 3 for non web apps can maybe obtained via these softwares (wiki)

I miss point 2 an - with a bit of effort - I have my free open netscaler 😛

@scottalanmiller

I didn't even watch that video yet, but just wanted to make a statement about that man's mustache. That alone might persuade me to use that product.

That's new to me. Posting a post about Octoblu itself now.

@sn said in Virtual Data Room recommendations:

@scottalanmiller Technically "virtual data room" is similar to file server and primarily accessed over a browser session. In addition to the standard file server features, it may also include features like-

Bulk watermarking of documents "View only" mode for documents Real time activity logs Remote document shredding Fenced view to protect documents from someone taking a photo of the monitor with document open Q & A section and live discussions etc.

From a usage perspective, our "virtual data room" is shared between a bunch of firms (like insurers, lawyers, auditors, investors, engineering and construction companies etc) with different access levels who are working towards the completion of a specific project which may take 2-5 years to complete (please note, we are into wind/solar farm development). So I surely do not want all these guys on my file server doing crazy things like creating users and modifying originals.

At the moment, I am thinking of evaluating https://www.idealsvdr.com/virtual-data-room-features/ to see if they are worth switching from my current provider.

Interesting. Seems like a mistake in terms. Why does being available over "web" make it "virtual". Seems like a marketing term. I don't see anyone but Citrix using it, and Citrix has a trend of totally making up and misusing terms. Citrix' use of "virtual" is the industry standard for "wrong". I have a feeling that this isn't a legitimate term. Looking at the wikipedia entry for it, it looks very suspect. And the definition doesn't feel right - a specific access technology for something so general wouldn't be appropriate. And the lack of other products or vendors using the term for something so common and normal is suspicious. For example, Sharepoint and Alfresco have been doing this for forever, but never use the term.

@olivier NP... I know it's isn't within your control. 🙂

Ah ha, this is a bit silly. But you need to go into Programs and Features and fine the Citrix VDA client. Select "Change" and then fill in your controller information there. Not intuitive at all.

Seems to be working. At least this step. The applications have populated.

That's the big thing with XenApp, application performance. And integration with XenDesktop for VDI.

@scottalanmiller said:

@iroal said:

Give the link, I live in Spain and can check it.

https://www.citrix.com/welcome.html?resource=%2Faccount

No problem to download from Spain.

I test downloading Xen Server Hotfix.

@johnhooks said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Reuters calls them a cloud computing company? What cloud computing is Citrix even involved in?

It's considered cloud if you can't see the computer right?

At Citrix, it is. Apparently that definition did not win them a lot of business.

NFSv4 is only for security, typically you want to avoid this in a production virtualization environment. You would want to be on NFSv3 for performance reasons.