I was trying to install the Citrix PVS Target Device unattended. I made a job in RES Automation Manager with a Unattended Installation Package:
PVS_Device_x64.exe /S /v /qn
Tag Archive for XenDesktop
Citrix: Unattended install of PVS Target Device resulting in vDisk is not available
Category: Citrix, XenApp, XenDesktop |
Tags: Citrix, Provisioning Server, Provisioning Services, Unattended, XenApp, XenDesktop
Citrix: XenClient, my findings so far..
To test XenClient on functionality I got a test laptop from my employer. It’s a Lenovo T520 with an i5, a 256Gb SSD disk and 16Gb ram. Enough power to have a good test! When I got this laptop I wanted to install the software but it’s only provided as ISO (DVD image) so I had to burn a DVD to install XenClient 2.0. I would like to have an ISO which can be extracted to USB storage so I wouldn’t have to burn a DVD anymore, although I know there are solutions to do this yourself I like it if a vendor delivers this for you.
Category: Citrix, XenDesktop |
Tags: Citrix, Findings, Syncronizer, XenClient, XenDesktop, XenServer
Citrix MCS, Citrix’s best kept secret for server virt guys?
The last couple of days I had some great discussions with co-workers and some (VMware minded) guys on Twitter. The subject? The complexity of setting up Citrix XenDesktop, most of them refer to some demo they saw or things they’ve read on blogs/twitter etc while they know View is pretty easy to configure. But the thing is that those demo’s are mostly from a VMware View point of view and in the comparissons I’ve seen, Citrix PVS is used instead of Citrix MCS.
Citrix: XenDesktop and vSphere Reference Architecture
Citrix releaed a new whitepaper yesterday containing the XenDesktop and vSphere Reference Architecture Overview, you can find the article here
Citrix: Storage Best Practices and Planning Guide
Today Citrix published CTX130632 containing XenDesktop Planning Guide – Storage Best Practices. This document describes a list of best practices, recommendations and performance related tips that cover the most critical areas of storage integration with Citrix XenDesktop. This Best Practices will be added to the XenDesktop Design Handbook that can be found here.
Citrix: Images in Citrix PVS or MCS and some tips and tricks
In this blogpost I will gather some tips and tricks on creating images in Citrix PVS and/or MCS but they will be applicable on VMware View implementations to because most of them are OS related. The first couple of tips I got from this document which is written for View but like I already said you can use this for XenDesktop.
Windows OS Optimizations
• Install Windows Patches, then turn OFF Automatic Update
• Disable Serial and Parallel ports in Device Manager (if they exist)
• Set Screensaver to “None” or “Blank”
• Disable System Sounds (Set Sound scheme to “None”)
• (Windows 7) Uninstall Tablet PC Component
• Disable Windows Error Reporting
• Remove unnecessary boot applications (Quicktime, Real, Adobe Acrobat Updater, etc.
• Remove unneeded Windows components (Outlook Express,Messenger, Games, etc.)
• Disable unnecessary services
Wireless Zero Configuration Security Center Help and support Telephony Shell hardware detection Indexing Service SSDP Discovery Service Task scheduler Machine Debug Manager Remote Registry Themes Network Location Awareness
