Sometimes you need to export a virtual machine, if this machine has been used extensively it tends to be larger than the actual free space on the machine, in order for you to remove this delete space from being exported run the following commands dd if=/dev/zero of=zerofill bs=1M The command above will zerofill all free… Read More »
Has anyone been successful in adding an Intel s3610 SSD as a datastore on VSphere 6.0? I have tried several times without success. The process starts and shows in the recent tasks as “Create VMFS datastore”, but keeps running and never completes. I have successfully added other non-SSD drives without any issues. I tried reinstalling a clean copy… Read More »
INSTALLING THE NVIDIA VIRTUAL GPU MANAGER FOR VSPHERE The NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager runs on ESXi host. It is provided as a VIB file, which must be copied to the ESXi host and then installed. Package installation To install the vGPU Manager VIB you need to access the ESXi host via the ESXi Shell or… Read More »
NVIDIA GRID vGPU NVIDIA GRID vGPU enables multiple Virtual Machines (VM) to have simultaneous, direct access to a single physical GPU, using the same NVIDIA graphics drivers that are deployed on non-virtualized Operating Systems. Under the control of NVIDIA’s GRID Virtual GPU Manger, which runs in the XenServer Control Domain (dom0), GRID physical GPUs are… Read More »
Nvidia’s GRID vGPU technology is natively supported in XenDesktop, so let me show you how this feature works and some tips that go along with it. Citrix XenDesktop’s support for GPU virtualization allows virtual desktop users to run graphics-heavy applications with fantastic performance, gone are the days when your vdi is limited to mediocre graphics. Citrix added the capability for… 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 »
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.
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 »