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Using Ardence Disk Streaming with Citrix Servers

Thursday, 23 March 2006 by Michel Roth

Brian Madden has written an article about Ardence Disk Streaming, how it works and how you can benefit from it when you use it in a Citrix environment.

"This paper covers a technology called disk streaming (sometimes referred to as “software streaming,” “network boot” or “diskless boot”) from a company called Ardence, and how you can use it in your Citrix environments to give you much better flexibility and simpler server provisioning and management. In a nutshell, Ardence has technology that lets your Citrix servers boot from centralized disk image files stored on a file server instead of each server having its own drive. This means that you can add new servers and re-provision existing ones simply by pointing them to a new disk file on the network. It also means that you can reboot Citrix servers at anytime to “reset” them to their gold server image.

At first this sounds really scary, but the technology is pretty amazing and works well. The performance is great too.

In this paper, I intend to take a deep look at how exactly this technology works and how you can apply it to your Citrix or Terminal Server server-based computing environment"

Read more here.