Comments on: Citrix Provisioning Services 5.6 – What’s New http://www.xenappblog.com/2010/citrix-provisioning-services-5-6-whats-new/ it's all about applications and virtualization Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:25:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Trond Eirik Haavarsteinhttp://www.xenappblog.com/2010/citrix-provisioning-services-5-6-whats-new/#comment-512 Trond Eirik Haavarstein Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:17:55 +0000 http://www.xenappblog.com/?p=1303#comment-512 Hi Fares.Citrix Provisioning Services is an superb product and all our customers are in the process of migrating to PVS. With the brand new PVS 6.0 released last week the management get even easier and you've got an separate image for automatically applying Windows Updates. Regarding your question, we're always caching to local storage on the Blades. This saves traffic and the performance is awesome. For this reason I cannot provide any feedback in terms of cache to RAM. How many VM's are you running per blade, and which OS are your running on? Hi Fares.

Citrix Provisioning Services is an superb product and all our customers are in the process of migrating to PVS. With the brand new PVS 6.0 released last week the management get even easier and you’ve got an separate image for automatically applying Windows Updates. Regarding your question, we’re always caching to local storage on the Blades. This saves traffic and the performance is awesome. For this reason I cannot provide any feedback in terms of cache to RAM. How many VM’s are you running per blade, and which OS are your running on?

]]> By: Fares Amarihttp://www.xenappblog.com/2010/citrix-provisioning-services-5-6-whats-new/#comment-511 Fares Amari Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:04:40 +0000 http://www.xenappblog.com/?p=1303#comment-511 We have just installed this and have it setup for both our production and disaster recovery locations. We have already performed an update to a vDisk and everything is working like it should. This is truly a great product of Citrix Admins and this should def be part of the infrastructure design for anyone working with XenApp.The one thing we are not 100% sure about is the use of caching to RAM. We have 33 blades with 96GB of RAM each, with 200 users connecting to each blade, we don't know what we should set the RAM cache to. Has anyone had experience with that setting? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. We have just installed this and have it setup for both our production and disaster recovery locations. We have already performed an update to a vDisk and everything is working like it should. This is truly a great product of Citrix Admins and this should def be part of the infrastructure design for anyone working with XenApp.

The one thing we are not 100% sure about is the use of caching to RAM. We have 33 blades with 96GB of RAM each, with 200 users connecting to each blade, we don’t know what we should set the RAM cache to. Has anyone had experience with that setting? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

]]> By: Trond Eirik Haavarsteinhttp://www.xenappblog.com/2010/citrix-provisioning-services-5-6-whats-new/#comment-310 Trond Eirik Haavarstein Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:38:12 +0000 http://www.xenappblog.com/?p=1303#comment-310 Hi Robert,What you do is make a copy of the existing vDisk e.g XA5 Rev 1 - new vDisk XA5 Rev 2. Then you attach this image to you lab VM in private mode, install the updates and Windows updates, then shut it down and put it into Shared Mode. When you raise the version number of this vDisk, all your XenApp Servers will pick up this new image at next reboot, you could also drag and drop it to your collection. Good luck. Hi Robert,

What you do is make a copy of the existing vDisk e.g XA5 Rev 1 – new vDisk XA5 Rev 2. Then you attach this image to you lab VM in private mode, install the updates and Windows updates, then shut it down and put it into Shared Mode. When you raise the version number of this vDisk, all your XenApp Servers will pick up this new image at next reboot, you could also drag and drop it to your collection. Good luck.

]]> By: Robert Francishttp://www.xenappblog.com/2010/citrix-provisioning-services-5-6-whats-new/#comment-309 Robert Francis Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:18:40 +0000 http://www.xenappblog.com/?p=1303#comment-309 With Provisioning Server I'm using this at work and have come across a small problem. We are using Provisioning Server to create a new XenApp 5.0 farm with only one vDisk. Due to the Citrix environment having very importnat clinical systems the questions being asked are referring to updates of the applications.At the moment from what I can Provisioning Server only allows to update a vdisk whilst the target device(s) are shut down. Within our environment it is nor acceptable to shut down every system just to update a vdisk. Is there a way to dynamically update the vdisk and just have schedule reboots so that the target device picks up the new vdisk changes? With Provisioning Server I’m using this at work and have come across a small problem. We are using Provisioning Server to create a new XenApp 5.0 farm with only one vDisk. Due to the Citrix environment having very importnat clinical systems the questions being asked are referring to updates of the applications.

At the moment from what I can Provisioning Server only allows to update a vdisk whilst the target device(s) are shut down. Within our environment it is nor acceptable to shut down every system just to update a vdisk. Is there a way to dynamically update the vdisk and just have schedule reboots so that the target device picks up the new vdisk changes?

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