http://www.parmiter.com Virtualisation blog and Knowledge Base Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:24:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenserver/2011/01/RP759 http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenserver/2011/01/RP759#comments Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:22:46 +0000 RP http://www.parmiter.com/?p=759 There is a way to move a virtual machine from Hyper-V to XenServer without the need for XenConvert. On Hyper-V do the following: Power off the VM Backup or migrate to a CIFS share The backup or CIFS share will include the VHD files for the hard disks (one VHD per virtual hard disk) On [...]]]> http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenserver/2011/01/RP759/feed 0 http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenapp-citrix/2010/09/RP749 http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenapp-citrix/2010/09/RP749#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:33:58 +0000 RP http://www.parmiter.com/?p=749
Sometimes the Delivery Services Console takes a long time to launch. This is due to a .NET delay in the authenticode signature component as described in Microsoft Article Q936707. The following config file can be added to speed up the lauch of the Delivery Services Console. mmc.exe.config Ensure the contents of the file contain the [...]]]> http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/xenapp-citrix/2010/09/RP749/feed 2 http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/2010/08/RP742 http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/2010/08/RP742#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:51:04 +0000 RP http://www.parmiter.com/?p=742
During the initial instalation of XenDesktop, an Active Directory Controllers group is created and populated with the DDC servers in the farm. This group is named ‘controllers’. For any subsequent installation of XenDesktop a new controllers group is added for each XenDesktop installation with a different name based on controllers – such as ‘ControlA0D3′ If [...]]]> http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/2010/08/RP742/feed 1 http://www.parmiter.com/scripts/2010/07/RP732 http://www.parmiter.com/scripts/2010/07/RP732#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:37:06 +0000 RP http://www.parmiter.com/?p=732
I wanted to stress test a Citrix XenServer 5.6 computer to see how it copes with a number of simultaneou startup and shutdown requests. I also wanted to see the IOPS passed to back end storage where the virtual machine hard drives are stored. Rather than manually selecting the machine in XenCenter and shutting down [...]]]> http://www.parmiter.com/scripts/2010/07/RP732/feed 0 http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/citrix-web-interface/2010/07/RP727 http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/citrix-web-interface/2010/07/RP727#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:18:27 +0000 RP http://www.parmiter.com/?p=727
The defaut page title and fav icon logo appear on the browser tab when connecting to the Citrix Web Interface Site. Shown here: It is possible to replace the logo with your own one and change the text to be more appropriate. Logo The logo is:  ..\inetpub\wwwroot\Citrix\{site name}\media\IcaComboAll.ico replace with your own .ico file but [...]]]> http://www.parmiter.com/citrix/citrix-web-interface/2010/07/RP727/feed 3