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Tag: provisioning-server
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“If you’ve ever had a major outage, you can’t afford to miss this session!
SYN404: Introducing the Citrix Diagnostics Toolkit When problems occur, data points, debug tracing, and context information are things that support engineers will collect to help determine root cause and later use to affect product change if applicable. Preparation and organization of commonly used tools has always been a time consuming challenge especially during outages. We have all experienced this at least once in our careers but ...
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Impacts of PVS implementation in large enterprise companies
In general, when we discuss PVS implementation during a XenDesktop or XenApp design, the focus is always on technical aspects of the PVS, e.g. PVS must be virtual or physical, one or two servers, NIC type, etc. Additional questions/answers, however, may be needed in order for a successful implementation to take place. PVS implementation is not only a technical challenge. In dealing with large enterprise ...
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Deploy XenApp 6.5 using PVS 6.1 – Part 2
In the previous blog post we covered the steps to prepare a XenApp Master Image server for provisioning. We installed the software necessary for communicating with PVS services, performed a PXE boot and readied a blank vDisk to store the server image. We are now ready to continue on and capture the XenApp Master Image to a PVS vDisk. From the XenApp Master Image server launch ...
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Deploy XenApp 6.5 using PVS 6.1 – Part 1
One of the keys to a successful XenApp implementation is ensuring consistency across servers within the farm. Even a slight server misconfiguration can affect performance, functionality, and even stability. Troubleshooting these issues can become a time consuming process for Citrix administrators. To minimize the chance of misconfiguration due to human error, Provisioning Services (PVS) is a recommended method for deploying XenApp servers, especially for large ...
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Where’s the beef?
Anyone remember Wendy’s “where’s the beef” commercial back in the 80’s? I bet you do! I still crack up over watching the 3 elderly women lift up the large bun to only find a small hamburger patty that was barely naked to the eye. Not to mention, one of them continuously saying, “where’s the beef?” As part of deploying critical business applications we have to really ...
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Load Balancing TFTP with NetScaler
I published an article called "Load Balancing TFTP - Anything But Trivial" a little over a year ago. And since then, it's received over 10,000 hits and it's been one of the most popular articles I've ever written in terms of comments and offline emails that I receive about the article. If you haven't had a chance to read that article yet (or the comments), ...
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The answer to an age old question
"What provisioning solution should I use for my XenDesktop deployment?" As they say, if I had a dollar for every time I've heard that question. If you have that question then check-out my Synergy session SYN103 Best Practices for Provisioning XenDesktop. If you are already here in San Francisco at Synergy you can come see it live Wednesday the 9th at 8:00 AM or Friday the ...
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XenDesktop and Provisioning Services on vSphere 5
I want to preface this post by saying if you are not interested in any backstory just skip down to the summary section for a wrap up... Coming from a consulting background I learned the hard way that you always have to check the compatibility of all components in a project. Since VMware released vSphere 5 many people found out the hard way that Citrix Provisioning ...
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Combine PVS and Melio to Maximize Investments in XenApp and XenDesktop
Hi all, Always striving to educate the industry on how Sanbolic's distributed data management software, Melio™, is helping organizations around the world realize the greatest return on their XenApp™ and XenDesktop® deployments, we're taking the opportunity once again, this time in the form of a webinar being held tomorrow morning at 11:00AM EST. / 8:00AM PST. The webinar, titled "Citrix PVS 6.0 and Sanbolic Melio 4 – ...
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Looking for an Alternative to Read-only LUNs, Replication and File Shares for PVS HA?
Have you recently upgraded to PVS 6.0? Did you happen to notice the Read-only LUN feature has been removed? Was it a feature you used previously to consolidate your vDisks and make vDisk management and maintenance easier? Other options such as replication and file shares introduce data management overhead, inefficient use of storage and single points of failure, and offer no ability to scale, less-than-stellar performance and various other unfavorable results. If you're ...