During Citrix Summit Nutanix released the Nutanix Plugin for XenDesktop, as you can read over here: The Nutanix Plugin for Citrix XenDesktop. This plugin will enable the XenDesktop admins to leverage both Citrix and Nutanix technology to start SLA management from their own known console.
The Nutanix plugin for XenDesktop, under the hood
Introducing: vGPU on vSphere, installation and troubleshooting tips
At Nutanix the last couple of days I’ve been in
volved in the testing of the new vGPU features from vSphere 6 in combination with the new NVIDIA grid drivers so that vGPU would also be available for desktops delivered via Horizon 6 on vSphere 6.
vCenter SSL certificate and XenDesktop (PoSH script)
Rebuilding your XenDesktop lab environment, everybody does it and everybody runs into that issue when you configure the vCenter connection from Citrix Studio with a self-signed certificate.
A new XenDesktop 7.6 installation, ‘Unable to upload disk’
I was setting up a new lab environment based on vSphere 5.5 and XenDesktop 7.6. When I wanted to deploy a new image within XenDesktop I got an error message ‘Unable to upload disk’.
Releasing the Nutanix Documentation Script
One of the things I’ve been working on since I started at Nutanix is the Nutanix documentation script. Luckily there already is an PowerShell framework to document AD, DHCP but also XenApp, XenDesktop and PVS for instance.
2014 recap, here comes 2015!
To quote the famous Andrew Morgan: “Where did 2014 go?”. Another year passed and it feels like it did with the blink of an eye. A lot of things changed so I thought let’s do a recap.
