Starting with an innocent conversation a little over 15 months ago, I agreed to co-author a book on Windows PowerShell. I had no idea what I was getting into nor the amount of work it was going to entail. It was a very long and detailed process, but I can finally say it was all [...]
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Recently at work we have been doing some load testing and finally realized that we needed to load balance the AppSense Personalization servers in our environment. Prior to this we have just utilized the standard AppSense failover method. We needed something a little more robust. These were the requirements. Solution must be able to distribute [...]
Starting in Citrix XenServer 5.6 (or earlier) you are no longer able to collect Host and VM performance data via the “legacy” API calls. Fortunate for me, Citrix has allowed users to reenable the legacy API retrieval for metrics.
Date: 09/01/2010 (Wednesday) Time: 11:00AM – 1:30PM EDT Description: The User Group meetings provide members with an opportunity to share and learn about common issues and utilization of Server Based Computing technology. Additional segments include troubleshooting tips, best practices, enterprise solutions, technology trends, vendor presentations and upcoming activities of interest. Agenda: 11:00am: Registration 11:15am: Opening [...]
If you are a XenApp administrator you have no doubt utilized “qfarm.exe /load” to display the load on your Citrix XenApp Servers. These load values can identify issues with your servers in addition to determining which server is the least/most loaded in your farm. The one key component missing in this display is determining the [...]
Today at work it was brought to my attention that XenServer 5.6 dropped support for Windows XP 64 bit. I had only just recently started work with XenServer on a new project. This is a big deal for us because one of our VDI XenDesktop pilots is for a statistical application running on Windows XP [...]
