In this tutorial will speak about how to deploy an ELM applance , from the citrix website in the download section take source that suits your need . I followed of course the Citrix recommendations from here, but at the end i tuned as i need it. For my example i choose the vmware one.
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Jan 29
OS layer creation
I’ll present below how to create a new OS layer from scratch. Log on into the ELM web console and navigate to layers OS layers In the right pane there is create OS layer, click on it
Jan 29
ELM appliance update
I will present now how update and ELM appliance . For the begining a snapshot of the ELM machine is good to take into account, with the machine off, I advice. Another backup solution is to export all layers. Choose the one that suits you the more I followed the citrix documentation https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-app-layering/4/upgrade.html I got …
Jan 08
Creating a MCS catalog and machines
To create a MCS Catalog for the Xendesktop use the Studio console and launch the wizard, but prior to that is necessary to have a windows client installed domain joined and with VDA 7.15 inside. My choice was a windows 10 1709 release
Dec 06
Offline vdisk creation
There are some situations when the PVS server can’t be reach from various reasons. In this case there is a workaround to create a vdisk from scratch and import to PVS server latter on. In my scenario I will have a vmware infra there I will have the base image and i will attach another …
Jun 01
Skype and XenDesktop
On this article I try to tackle a little the topic of using the Skype for Business in the VDI environment. Citrix developed a new plugin for HDX RealTime Media Engine 2.0.100 designed for this special special task to help the implementation of Skype in VDI.
Feb 01
Upgrade License server to 11.13.1
The upgrade of the License server is quite simple as the wizard will upgrade it automatically. The only thing that is important to do prior to license server upgrade is to backup the lic file, just in case as a best practice. So the 1st step is to launch the installer
Oct 08
HDX Framehawk Virtual Channel
Has anybody tried the new Framehawk ICA virtual channel? If yes maybe you can tell us how it works and what was your testing platform? We where asked to do a short POC for this in order to see the differences and improvements it can bring with high packet loss or congestion. When we finish we …
Oct 08
Rules for the PVD disk (Personal Vdisk)
I will post a short description for the new way that the PVD can split the application and user part. By default this is a 50/50 split, and recently we had to modify this for one of our clients. In the new version of PVD that comes with XD 7.6 the “default” behavior has changed …
May 26
XenDesktop Setup Wizard 7.6- new “feature”
When using the Xendesktop Setup Wizard on version7.6, I encountered the follow problem, the wizard is not keeping my HDD attached to the virtual machine template at the value defined by me, it recreated a new HDD of 6GB default value on SCSI at the 0:1 instead the original one at 0:0 ….