In an STP enabled LAN, a switch is designated as the root bridge. The root bridge serves as an admin point for all spanning-tree calculations to determine which redundant links are blocked. An election process takes place, determining which switch becomes the root bridge. Each switch has a Bridge ID (BID) that is made up of: priority value extended system… Read More »
Citrix announced a limited technology preview of virtualized Linux apps and desktops, that integrates with XenApp and XenDesktop and extends the FlexCast Management Architecture (FMA) to enable additional use cases in industries such as automotive, manufacturing, oil and gas and financial services. When used with Citrix HDX, the company’s market-leading user experience technology, customers will get unmatched… Read More »
So,you either just setup iSCSI or are having performance issues with your current iSCSI device. Here are some pointers to ensure “networking” is not the issue: 1. MTU Settings Always check in XenCenter that your NICS responsible for storage are pointing to the correct target IPS. If they are, ensure you can ping these targets… Read More »
Recently I was at a security conference for Palo Alto networks in Vegas, Since I was in security mode, I was sniffing around the wi-fi and hotel network. What I discovered was shocking , quite simple actually if you think about it. But i guess that sometimes we are too trusting.
Security risks ipv6 will bring along
Citrix have finally released project Tampa from beta to Xenserver 6.1 hypervisor, finally introducing features like Vmware’s storage Vmotion, in this case called Storage XenMotion. Citrix have also committed to start releasing 2 updates per year for XenServer. The following features have been added. Storage XenMotion:
I tried upgrading Vsphere from Version 5.0 Update 1 to 5.1, however when booting from the CD or Trying update manager i kept on getting the following error: From CD err no 39 directory not empty From Update Manager The update was failing after a short period.
Logon as the local Administrator Try to run the discovery process If it fails (as it did for me) open a command console
When you are running a user / device license each user that logs on, is assigned a license. This license is automatically revoked after that user has not logged on into the system. However sometimes you may manually need to revoke a license if you run out. running this command from your license server will… Read More »
I have been having issues connecting redirected drives into my Xenapp Server. It seems there is a problem with the new Citrix Receiver where this has been disable for some reason. So you can not open any documents published through XenApp from Xendesktop from any local or networked drives for your Xendesktop image. The following… Read More »