Dude, Where’s My VM? I have no Idea. :(
Recently got an email from a friend who had (not by his doing) stepped into an environment where Virtual Machines had literally sprung up across various WorkStation installations. …
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Best Practices
Best Practice : Start your Citrix STA ID names with STA. :)
Sam Jacobs sent over a quick best practice note reminding us verify that our STA IDs begin with the letters ‘STA’ for XenApp Plug-in Version 12.0 compatibility. The…
Best Practices for Upgrading XenDesktop 4 Virtual Desktop Agent.
Citrix has released a new whitepaper detailing some best practices when upgrading the Virtual Desktop Agent (VDA). Nothing too earth shattering in this paper though. Take good backups,…
Speed up those Citrix XenApp Servers!
Aaron Silber came across an interesting KB article that had some very impressive stats hidden in it! This particular KB article reinforces a pretty standard Microsoft Windows practice…
VMware View: Direct Connections or Funneled through the Broker?
When using the Broker in View, you basically have 2 options for connecting to your desktops : Direct Connections or Tunneled SLL through the Broker itself. You can…
Separate Virtual Disks for each volume in Virtual Machines.
It’s a pretty solid best practice to create a separate virtual disk or VMDK/VHD for each volume in a virtual machine. The alternative is to create 1 vDisk…
VCB and PowerPath compatibility Matrix
Recently a customer asked if VMware Consolidated Backup worked with PowerPath. After Googling around a bit, I came across this VMware KB article.https://kb.vmware.com/kb/1007479It has a great matrix of…
Issues with Citrix’s ICA Client 11.2
Sam Jacobs dropped this quick note on me this week. “I have been noticing an increasing number of posts on the Citrix forums concerning issues with the 11.2…
Slow VMs using Citrix Provisioning Services using VMXNet3 NIC driver
Chris Hahn made some interesting networking observations recently at a client : I was testing provisioned XP desktops at [CENSORED] today, and I noticed that the provisioned XP…