In Short … HELL YES, see this PDF from Citrix with the large list of the improvements in XenServer 6.5 The new console is sleek and quick and a hell of an improvement over the previous with a number of bug fixes (notably for vGPU / VDI settings). It has a couple of new views (similar […]
When installing the PVS target agent the PVS Target fails to Copy. PVS is unable to work with the reserved windows partition. Follow this fantastic guide to move the boot files, set the C: drive active, reboot (sometimes twice) then delete the reserved partition and then start the PVS target again. http://danielruiz.net/category/citrix/pvs/page/2/
Situation: We had a number of production VMs running a Citrix desktop workload on Citrix Xenapp 6.5 via Citrix PVS 7.1 (SP3) with cache to RAM with overflow to hard drive, set at 2048Mb. VMware Hypervisor 5.5 and Appv 5 SP2 with HRP4 running in full infrastructure mode (no Microsoft SCCM) and 30GB of packages running […]
Introduction This article was created as a very quick reference between the Amazon’s AWS EC2 and Microsoft’s Azure. There was little in the way of scientific tests carried out, it is purely a list of observations during the testing so these results below are personal opinion / experience only. You should carry out your own […]
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Here is a non exhaustive list of things recently discovered during a PoC of Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 with Nvidia GPU Passthrough from XenServer 6.2 SP1 (i.e Citrix HDX 3D Pro) for the Oil and Gas Industry The alternative (rather long) heading for this article should probably be “how to deliver 3d graphic intensive Oil and […]
Ive seen this error a number of times: Misconfiguration of storefront server itself The server has just rebooted and IIS is still starting up A firewall preventing the storefront server(s) getting back to the SNIP of the Netscaler(s) and now today… Today I added a new Delivery controller in Storefront 2.5 so I could publish […]
Problem: Was trying to upload a custom wordpress theme from themeforest.net and during the upload the theme uploader was crashing out prompting with ‘Are you sure you wan to do this? Please try again.’ Solution: Easy one really, ensure you are uploading the WordPress theme only and no other (the zip file will typically be […]
Problem: We wanted to Autoformat Citrix PVS Write Cache Drive of the PVS D drive (writecache) for things like Citrix logs, edgesight database. Otherwise the servers boot up first time and complain they cant create or access the pagefile. Want the D Drive labelled with Server name so if ever they are moved or detached – […]
I wanted to document the AppV5 File Type Associations and how they work when published down to an end user device or server. If publishing globally the FTAs will apply to every user of the machine If publishing to a group of users (and not globally) the FTA’s will only work for those group members. […]