Disk Write Cache doesn’t work in Windows Server 2012?

When i install Provisioning Server to provisioning my first Windows Server 2012, everything worked fine, i mean, the disk conversion finish successfully and the server boot completely, but the Write Cache on my disk did not work. After spend some minutes investigating i found the solution on the citrix forum. My write cache disk was […]

Microsoft Security Patch Validation Report

Hi Folks. This are a very important information when you planning to install a Microsoft hotfix in your Citrix environment, (you should apply hotfixes monthly by the away). The description says “Microsoft’s December 2014 security updates have passed Citrix testing (the updates are listed below). The testing is not all-inclusive; all tests are executed against English […]

Citrix Virtual Desktop Handbook 7.x UPDATED

Citrix publish an update for Citrix Virtual Desktop Handbook 7.x at Nov/10/2014, with some additional information on Operation and Monitorint     Citrix Virtual Desktop Handbook 7.x

QFARM is missing ? don’t worry, powershell to that.

Since XenDesktop 7 with new FMA protocol there is no Qfarm command. Well, now is called Load Index and are two ways (that i use) how you can view this information. One is using the Citrix Powershell and other is in Studio console.  By Studio console In the search menu > Server OS Machines > […]

XenApp 7.6 Connection Leasing

The Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7 or above is completely dependent and require connection with database all the time. This was one of the most important change in XenApp/XenDesktop 7 version. The new FMA protocol used in the XenApp 7 or above does not have a Local Host Cache (LHC) used on IMA protocol in XenApp 6.5 […]

Turbo Write Cache on Provisioning Server

Today i will talk about the new write cache method included in Provisioning Server 7.1 or above called cache in device RAM with overflow to hard disk. It’s incredible the performance that you get with this method. Well, i already talked about provisioning server boot options, you can read on this link. So now i […]

XenApp/XenDesktop 7.6 The old is New

I mean, Citrix is a great company and XenApp is a beatiful product, but why release a new version every semester?   Product Version Release Date Month between version XenApp for Windows Server 2008 R2 6 24-Mar-10 XenApp for Windows Server 2008 R2 6.5 24-Aug-11 17 months XenDesktop 7 7 26-Jun-13 17 months XenDesktop 7.1 […]

Citrix 1Y0-300 Passed.

Today i passed in Citrix exam 1Y0-300 Deploying Citrix Desktop 7 Solutions and earned the title  Citrix Certified Professional – Virtualization.

Verifying vShield component on VMWare Tools

Checking if vshield component was installed: Method 1 On the Windows registry, go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Features\ You must find the installation features key of VMware tools in this registry path. (my case is 9859B621815EE6C42AAAD96C84CF9AAA) and search for the component that you want. (VShield) The difference between a installed component and not installed component is the symbol […]

The simple ways to add or remove VMWare Tools components.

We are in this project to install VMware vShield with Deep Security in all virtual servers and then one question came on top.  “it´s possible to install a vmware tool component without reboot the server, or without reinstall all of vmware tools?”. The answer is YES. So if some reason, you need to add or […]