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Last week Magnus Andersson posted a Nutanix AHV VM Reporting script which leverages the internal commandline options to export some basic VM configuration to an excel file. In the same week our team got a question about how to do this based on powershell. When I combined those two I…
This week I got a request via Matthijs van den Berg , one of the Nutanix SEs in EMEA. He was working with a Dutch Service Provider that has standardised its complete infrastructure deployment using PowerShell as the glue between components. This service provider was working with Nutanix AHV and…
After reading this excellent blogpost from Andrew Nelson (Distributed Systems Specialist at Nutanix) on Acropolis Image and Cloning Primer for Automation and combining that with this blogpost from Raghu Nandan (Director of Product Management) on Setting up Citrix XA/XD with an Acropolis…
At one of my current projects we’ve encountered the situation were people had non domain joined machines (corporate owned), those machines were deployed via an external deployment mechanism but we discovered that a lot of the machines had duplicate hostnames. Not a big deal as the machines…
During one of my projects we had to do a print migration of +500 printers and as this could become a repeating task during other migrations we decided to use RES Automation Manager to get this done. Because the old print server was a Windows Server 2003 and the new print server is a Windows Server…
A couple of weeks ago Citrix published the Citrix Policy Reference sheet: Summary The attached spreadsheet documents all the policy settings available with XenApp versions 6 or later, and XenDesktop versions 5 or later. Background Starting with XenApp 6 and XenDesktop 5, policies…
