Citrix on NetApp Best Practices in Table Form!

Hi Everyone,

It's been a really busy week and I've only be able to do a little work on Part II, so I'm posting some best practices in easy to follow table form!  Part II and Part III are coming soon!  What we have here are different Citrix VDI components and best practices on how they interact with NetApp.

XenDesktop on vSphere

	Storage Protocol	Backup Method	Compression / Thin Provision / Deduplication
Write Cache	NFS	N/A	Thin Provision
vDisk	CIFS	NetApp Snapshot	Thin Provision / Deduplication
Personal vDisk	NFS	VSC for vSphere	Thin Provision / Deduplication
User Data	CIFS	NetApp Snapshot	Thin Provision / Deduplication / Compression

XenDesktop on XenServer

	Storage Protocol	Backup Method	Compression / Thin Provision / Deduplication
Write Cache	NFS	N/A	Thin Provision
vDisk	CIFS	NetApp Snapshot	Thin Provision / Deduplication
Personal vDisk	NFS	Snap Creator for Xen	Thin Provision / Deduplication
User Data	CIFS	NetApp Snapshot	Thin Provision / Deduplication / Compression