While at Cisco Live I stopped by the VMware booth to check out the proof-of-concept that VMware and Cisco are currently doing involving extended distance VMotion. VMware’s latest information about it is here. The idea behind this is that you can distribute your CPU resources in multiple sites. This should be especially useful for those [...]
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Well, today was my first real day at Cisco Live…or Networkers..or whatever you call it. Let me just say one thing. For a guy used to North Carolina weather in June, it’s cold in San Francisco! I almost needed a jacket tonight. Crazy! Well, it’s time for Cisco Live. I’m sitting in the lobby of the Hilton people watching and finalizing my session schedule for the week. I spent some time this afternoon exploring downtown San Francisco. I’ve been all over southern California, but never San Fran so it’s been fun. OK, so I’ll admit that I have a problem…I’m a VIOPS junky. A few of my previous posts have been based on resources from this great site but hey can you blame me? There is a wealth of good information available on all things VMware and this particular article is no exception. Often times when setting up Citrix environments outside of production, it makes sense to combine multiple pieces onto one server. After recently setting up XenDesktop using an x64 environment, there was an unexpected issue trying to combine the XenDesktop DDC, Web Interface, and the Licensing Management Console. This combination has never been a problem in a 32-bit environment so what could be different in x64? The answer… IIS It was all very confusing at first because the License Server installation happened at the very beginning and worked without a hitch. Licenses were added and then DDS was installed on the same machine. The complete desktop environment was built without encountering any problems until time to configure Web Interface. At that point, no web pages on that machine were accessible, not even the Licensing Management Console which had worked fine previously. After some research, the cause of the problem was found along with the solution midway through the release notes for Presentation Server 4.5 with Feature Pack 1 which can be found here: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX112222 The DDC behaves a lot like XenApp and the same information regarding x64 applies. Quoting from the release notes found above, Citrix points out that “On a 64-bit version of Windows, the Citrix Web Interface installation will enable 32-bit Web extension support in IIS and this will disable 64-bit extension support.” And the solution…. Install Web Interface FIRST. Still quoting from the above article “Due to this requirement, if you are installing the Web Interface on a 64-bit version of the Windows operating system, ensure that you install Web Interface prior to installing any other Citrix software, including Citrix Presentation Server and Citrix License Management Console. This particular order of installation allows the products to adapt to the 32-bit support in IIS. If you install these products in an incorrect order, the Web server may produce errors messages when it is accessed, such as “Service unavailable.” So, uninstall and reinstall making sure to do Web Interface first. This will prep IIS for all the subsequent pieces.  Well, well, well, what do we have here. A new point release from our old pal gill. Looks to be feature rich and full of tasty morsels. You’ve heard it from me before <until I was blue in the face> but again if you aren’t using RecoverPoint for your local and remote replication needs then [...] When it comes to Thin Client computing there are several questions that typically come up. The big one is usually “What about video performance?”. Video performance was typically subpar or “choppy”, how choppy usually depending on what protocol (ICA or RDP) you were using. WYSE responded with it TCX Multimedia Redirection software which significantly improved [...] With the new version of Provisioning Server Citrix changed the management console ports from 8000 and 8001 to 54321 and 54322. The reason for this change is so that PVS can be installed on the XenDesktop Desktop Delivery Controller without port conflicts. When building out your Avamar Server, it’s important to keep in mind the flavors of an Avamar Server. You have the following 2 types of configurations: Continuing on, here is a quick synopsis of the following webcast, http://www.vmware.com/a/webcasts/details/261, title above. So what’s new you ask? Storage efficiency as it relates to the following… New iSCSI software initiator Improved management vCenter storage capabilities vStorage Thin Provisioning Consumes only what [...] Citrix just released an updated build of the XenDesktop VDA. Last week I wrote a bit about vSphere’s Data Recovery feature. There are a lot of good things to talk about in vSphere so this week I thought I’d cover Dynamic Power Management, or DPM. Many users of VI3 are probably familiar with DPM. It was available, but not fully supported since it was marked [...] I have referenced Desmond Chan’s blogs in the past, mainly around the configuration of an SRM demo environment, but here is another valuable resource on how to configure a Data Recovery Dedupe Store in vSphere. A new XenDesktop agent, version 3.1, is due out this week. Listed below are some of the issues resolved with this latest release: Redirected COM ports cannot be accessed outside of a user’s logon session. This enhancement allows you to issue a “net use com4: \clientcom1″ command to add a global device link named “COM4″ to [...] |
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