Archive for the ‘xenserver’ Category
Sunday, June 20th, 2010
People new to the virtualization space could get very frustrated when they find out that their Hypervisor of choice preforms much worse than a bare-metal installation. Haven't the vendors and independent analysis like Project Virtual Reality Check stated that there is no longer any excuses for not running Citrix XenApp ...
Posted in provisioning services, xenapp, xendesktop, xenserver | 9 Comments »
Monday, March 29th, 2010
The Citrix XenServer 5.6 Beta is out and I would like to update one of my most popular blog posts. Here is instructions and also a YouTube video on how to install Citrix XenServer 5.6 to an external USB drive.
Mistyping is very common and I would recommend using the <TAB> ...
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Saturday, March 20th, 2010
The new CCEE and CCIA for Virtualization exams are starting to pop up. I have already signed up for the beta exam and I do have all the necessary hands-on experience on the different products. To learn the theoretical part I prepare by reading the Admin and Exam Preparation Guides.
I've ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
The new version of Citrix Merchandising Server 1.2 (CMS) was released last week and the most important feature is Receiver for Macintosh, Download All feature, Receiver News and Receiver Forum links, Task-based video instruction, Enhanced browser support, Active Directory Server Backup and Receiver for Windows support for new languages. The ...
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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 ...
Posted in xenserver | 13 Comments »
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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