Archive for the ‘xenserver’ Category
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Most customers have delayed the upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8 as long as possible. The reason is memory / CPU usage especially on Terminal Servers, but this applies to personal computers and VDI as well. Some of the biggest web pages in Norway have been promoting upgrades similar ...
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
Many reports have showed that Citrix XenServer 5.5 scales better and optimizing for Citrix XenApp is done in a second. With VMware it has been, and still are more complex to tuning the guest OS. VMware claims 30% improved performance for Citrix XenApp hosted on vSphere 4. Feedback from customers ...
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
The Citrix Provisioning Services 5.1 Service Pack 2 has been released and the most important fix would be Hotfix-9112: Client hangs when using XenServer 5.0 / XenServer 5.5 running a network intensive application.
Hyper-V Direct VHD Boot is my favorite when it comes to updating Citrix Provisioning Services Target Device Software. ...
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Monday, November 30th, 2009
The Citrix Dazzle Plugin are now available in Citrix Merchandising Server 1.1. If you don't have a Merchandising Server you'll first need to download and configure your Citrix Merchandising Server's IP adresse and then log in with the default credentials : root - C1trix321. This is the "Configure Active Directory ...
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Saturday, October 10th, 2009
This post is a modified version of Chris Wolfs "Installing and Running XenServer 41 on an External USB-Drive" which makes it possible to run Citrix XenServer 5.5 on an external USB drive.
Disconnect or disable all hard drives except the external USB drive
Download and burn a CD with XenServer 5.5
Boot and ...
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
The Provisioning Services 5.1 SP1 is available for download and I would like to share my upgrade experience. If you read the install documentation you will see many upgrade scenarios. I first tried upgrading the Target Device software using Hyper V, but this resulted in blue screen x7B (Works perfect ...
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Saturday, September 12th, 2009
Working on my XenServer lab making a new blog post about Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 my XenServer suddenly stopped function properly. My network interface was showing disconnected, even though I was connected! The biggest problem was that XenCenter reported NaN% of CPU and NaN% of memory making it impossible to ...
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Tuesday, September 8th, 2009
I have to admit that networking is not my strongest side, I relay on the network folks for FW rules, NAT and so on. The reason why I have installed and configured the Vyatta Virtual Router is that I need to have more control and make my own configurations.
My XenServer ...
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
This cheap and cool product let you document your XenServer environment in a couple of minutes. The demo have a lot of sections which are not included. I would rather like a limited numbers of hosts with full details in the demo version. Check it out at Halfmode.com
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
In the beginning I decided not to have a XenServer at Home, simply because I wanted to totally relax after work. But because of ongoing projects and this blog I found it easier to have one at home as well.
I have chosen these components :
ASUS M4A78-EM
AMD Phenom X4
Corsair 8GB (4x2GB)
MiniATX ...
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