Martijn Bosschaart just posted CTX128909 on twitter, this article contains the following information on XenDesktop 5 Logon Process and Communication Flow:
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Microsoft and VDI; “Why Hyper-V for VDI whitepaper” and “Jump Start: Microsoft Virtualization & Hyper-V”
Microsoft is publishing a lot of information about Hyper-V and VDI, last week they did a three day “Jump Start: Microsoft Virtualization & Hyper-V” online event. There was a lot of information about the hypervisor, vm’s, user density, manageability and of course VDI.
The description from the Borntolearn page:
Corey Hynes and Symon Perriman are in the middle of a great day one to this Microsoft Virtualization for VMware Professional Jump Start event. After providing a short Virtualization Overview and spending some time differentiating between Microsoft and VMware terminology, they started a great session on Hyper-V. After lunch, they’ll spend another hour on this topic then finish the day with almost two full hours on High-Availability & Clustering. The afternoon and the next two days will be packed with real-world scenarios and tons of demos
For the people who didn’t sit the whole session out, the content is published online here.
As addition Microsoft also released a white paper “Why Hyper-V for VDI”, the description for this whitepaper is stated as following:
Choosing a hypervisor for deploying a VDI solution involves a number of important considerations, each of which can be fulfilled by using Microsoft’s Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 hypervisor-based virtualization technology. When implemented together with the Microsoft System Center family of products and desktop virtualization technologies from partners like Citrix, organizations can build integrated VDI solutions that can meet the needs of your business while keeping costs under control.Based on the results obtained from internal testing and because VM density has a significant influence on datacenter cost structures; an integrated Citrix/Microsoft VDI solution that includes Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 R2 SP1 and System Center delivers unique end-to-end business value for organizations planning on implementing VDI.
The white paper can be found here.
Both sources contain great information about hypervisors (in general but of course about Hyper-V), manageability and VDI. The documents also contain more information about scaling and user density which still is difficult ground to cover so these are useful documents.
Update:
Microsoft just posted the video’s online: http://bit.ly/MSVirt-JUMP
Citrix: Citrix PVS and BSOD when booting target VM from vDisk
Yesterday I spend the day setting up a PoC for Citrix Provisioning Services (5.6.1 SP1) with XenDesktop, XenApp 6 and XenApp 5. But we discovered that all of the target VM’s would give a BSOD (0x0000007b meaning: inaccessible boot device) when booting from the vDisk while the master didn’t have any problems.
image source: Lako-Home
After investigating this we cloned the master and removed the hard drive. After creating the device in the Citrix PVS console we where able to boot successfully from this vDisk. So the VM was created manually and somewhere along the road there was a misconfiguration. We took the clone and converted it to a template. After this we installed CTX128726 for PVS so we can use the wizard to create XenApp VM’s with this vDisk from the PVS console
Citrix: Collection of XenDesktop 5 Documents, KB Articles, Whitepapers etc
Ronald Grass just posted a really good collection of reference material for XenDesktop:
I don’t know how you feel about all the different sources of information around XenDesktop 5. To me it’s confusing where all the XenDesktop infos are stored and what are the keywords to find the right content. So I decided to create a collection of links to all the stuff I know of, may it be eDocs, Citrix Kits, HowTos, Whitepapers, KB Articles, Videos, etc.
XenDesktop MasterClass Videos available ( hey and don’t forget www.citrix.com/tv )
http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2011/03/25/XenDesktop+Masterclass+Video+Series+Now+AvailableVery good XenDesktop 5 PowerShell Blog posts
http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2011/03/18/XenDesktop+5+PowerShell+SDK+Primer+-+Part+1+-+Getting+Started
http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2011/03/23/XenDesktop+5+PowerShell+SDK+Primer+-+Part+2+-+Creating+Hypervisor+Connections+and+HostsWhitepapers
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX128328XenDesktop5 FAQ *HOT!http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX128013XenDesktop Licensing FAQ
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127594 XenDesktop 5.0 Quick Start Guide
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127587XenDesktop 5 – Reference Architecture
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX128330Planning Guide: XenDesktop 5 Migration
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX128277Logon Optimization Guide
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127939XenDesktop 5 Database Sizing and Mirroring Best Practices
https://community.citrix.com/kits/#/kit/1067009XenDesktop Design-Handbook
HowTos
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127546How to Create a VMWare User Account with Minimum Permission to Manage Machine Creation Services on XenDesktop 5.0
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127301How to Deploy and Configure XenDesktop 5 Virtual Desktop Agents with Active Directory Group Policy
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127429How to Repair a Site and Unlock Active Directory Accounts if Virtual Machine Creation is Interrupted
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127388How to Enable Remote Assistance for Desktop Director
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127492How to Enable Controller Service Logging in XenDesktop 5
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127564How to Implement High Availability Features in XenDesktop 5
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127392How to Create ICA Launch Files for High Availability Mode
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127476How to Enable Persistent CDF Tracing in XenDesktop 5
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127301How to Deploy and Configure XD 5 VDA with AD Group Policy
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127578How to Configure XD 5 with Microsoft Hyper-V and SCVMM
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127945How to Change the XML Port in XenDesktop 5
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX128190How to Change Virtual Channel Priority in XenDesktop 5
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127441How to Manually Install XenDesktop Web Access
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127538How to Reconfigure a XenDesktop Site to Use a Mirrored Database
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127359How to Configure XenDesktop for SQL Database Mirroring
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX128253How to Use a Specific SQL port with XenDesktop 5
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127421How to Redeploy XenDesktop Without Re-Installing
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127842How to configure logoff behavior of a Desktop Group in XenDesktop 5
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127596How to configure XenDesktop 5 VDA for VLAN tagging in Hyper-V
Tools
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX123278XDPing 2.0* NEW
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX128075XDDBDiag for XenDesktop
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127257XenDesktop 5 SQL Profiler Template
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127058Export-XenDesktop5Config
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127070XenDesktop Session State Monitor Tool
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX126699 Citrix XnapShot
additional XD KB Articles
http://support.citrix.com/static/kc/CTX127254Citrix XenDesktop 5 PowerShell online reference *HOT
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX128057 Getting started with PowerShell in XenDesktop 5
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127424Citrix XenDesktop 5 – Issues Fixed in This Release
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127418XenDesktop 5 Services Overview
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127998Database Access and Permission Model for XenDesktop 5
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX126704Registry Entries Used by XenDesktop 5 Broker Service
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX125578 XenDesktop Error: The hosting infrastructure could not be reached at the specified address *READ carefully, MCS needs additional editing of “/” section
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127811Single Sign-On and Xendesktop 5
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127563Disaster Recovery Guide for XenDesktop 5 using NetScaler
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127461Common Issues with Active Directory Policies in XenDesktop 5
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX126916XenDesktop 5 Database Transaction Log Growing Excessively
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX128580 Citrix XenDesktop 5 Support Statement for Microsoft KMS activation with Machine Creation Services (MCS)
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127545XenDesktop 5 Downloads Reference List
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX128726XenDesktop Wizard (now as Hotfix for PVS 5.6 SP1)
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127969Desktop Studio Logging Options for XenDesktop 5
He also posted:
XenDesktop 4 is still very popular out there and there is a Installation Sequence Recommendation for all the hotefixes released yet
Citrix XenDesktop 4 – Installation Sequence Recommendations for XenDesktop 4 Hotfixes
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX128604
But keep my earlier blogpost in mind, there’s no supported configuration possible for XenDesktop 4 with MS SQL.
Citrix: XenDesktop Planning Guide – XenDesktop Scalability
Citrix just released the XenDesktop Planning Guide – XenDesktop Scalability and these are the results (also from the PDF):
Citrix: Logon Optimization
Citrix released another good read on how the logon process and logon optimization in Citrix XenApp and/or XenDesktop works and how to optimize this:
Category: Citrix, EdgeSight, XenApp, XenDesktop |
Tags: Citrix, Logon, Optimization, XenApp, XenDesktop
