Yes, you read it right – With Tintri you can reduce the number of Storage Best Practices to be followed for your Applications by 99%. Don’t believe me? Refer our Citrix XenDesktop Best practices documents as an example. There are five papers written by Rob Girard, an ex-Tintri customer who jumped over to Tintri to be a Tintri TME. He knows exactly what it means to be on both sides of the fence (give him a shout on Twitter).

• XenDesktop 7.1 Quick Start Guide – Covers all the perquisite tasks required to get a XenDesktop environment up and running on Tintri storage.
• XenDesktop 7.1 Provisioning Services (PVS) Deep Dive – A continuation in the XenDesktop Deep Dive Series – this paper focuses on PVS for provisioning virtual desktops.
• XenDesktop 7.1 Machine Creation Services (MCS) Deep Dive – A continuation in the XenDesktop Deep Dive Series – this paper focuses on MCS for provisioning virtual desktops
• XenDesktop 7.1 Tintri Native Clones Deep Dive – A continuation in the XenDesktop Deep Dive Series – this paper focuses on using Tintri Native Clones for provisioning virtual desktops.
• XenDesktop 7.1 Provisioning & Machine Creation Deep Dive – The main provisioning deep dive paper and contains information that applies to all XenDesktop provisioning methods, and compares the method discussed in this paper to alternative methods.

Three things that standout in the papers are that –

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