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bash-ing XenServer
Recently one of my fellow Consulting colleagues asked around whether anybody knew of a script to export all VM names and the MAC addresses of their virtual interfaces. A list like this could be useful not only for tracking and network management purposes (think of NAC) but also to create DHCP reservations (For Linux geeks, you can probably stop reading here because I don't want ...
How to Doom a Cloud: Forget Networking
The number of clouds being built that are doomed to failure is staggering. Which is a shame because the builders are getting better by the day.Let me explain.At Citrix, we get the benefit of talking to a lot of people that are actively building clouds. They come in and talk to us about a variety of projects they are working on; from networking to VDI ...
NetScaler for the XenDesktop\XenApp Dummy
I have been working with XenApp since the WinFrame and MetaFrame days. Back then we had to create ALTADDR and NAT entries on the firewall to allow connections from the Internet. Later, we moved into CSG (Citrix Secure Gateway) that allowed only 443 and a single IP address to be exposed to the Internet to access the internal Presentation Server farm.Now, the preferred method is Access ...
Citrix App Studio Quick Deployment Guide
This article describes how to install Citrix App Studio using a very simple configuration. It includes an brief overview of Citrix App Studio’s basic deployment architecture followed by a guided walkthrough that shows how to set up the simplest possible configuration so you can get started using Citrix App Studio right away. Basic Deployment Architecture A Citrix App Studio basic deployment consists of an Active Directory domain, ...
Citrix Announces Details of Global SMB Partner Program
Back in May 2011 when Citrix announced the acquisition of Kaviza and its all-in-one VDI-in-a-BoxTM solution to help meet SMB market demand for virtual desktops, we quoted a Gartner study that found “SMB organizations are adopting desktop virtualization at an accelerating rate in order to reduce desktop management costs, improve security and increase business agility. In fact, Gartner research shows that hosted virtual desktops have ...
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Beta 1 on Citrix XenClient – Test Drive It Now!
The first beta release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, codenamed Precise Pangolin, has been released. The final version of Ubuntu 12.04 is expected to be released sometime in April 2012. If you are interested to check it out quickly and without fuss, test it out in a XenClient virtual machine and see what all the excitement is all about. Currently, Ubuntu 12.04 is not officially supported ...
Preventing Brute Force Login Attacks to the Citrix NetScaler Access Gateway or AAA for TM Login Page – Part 1
One of the more common requests I see is how to prevent brute force login attacks to the Citrix Access Gateway or NetScaler AAA for Traffic Management Login pages. Like many other web applications that have a public facing HTML form used for login, this is an assumed risk. Part 1 of this article looks at how you can use the NetScaler HTTP Rate Limiting feature ...
Innovation Award voting is live!
For me, a highlight of Synergy is the Innovation Award... it's impossible to celebrate all of our customers who are changing the way their business and people work but we do have the opportuity to bring six to the fore each year - split between Synergy San Francisco and Barcelona.In Berlin last year, The Co-operative Group was a worthy winner with savings of over £1.5 million thanks ...
App Streaming – CAB file format dissected
In the 6.0 release of Application Streaming, we moved away from storing Application Streaming content in CAB files, changing to an unzipped DIR structure. As noted in this earlier post, this was done to simplify "deploy" in offline scenarios and also to enable movement of the streaming targets into VHD files for layered mounting on pooled XenDesktop. This mounting stuff comes in the "soon" release. ...