We use XenDesktop 7 and Atlantis ILIO Diskless for our VDI environment. ILIO functions as a storage device. The ILIO VM should occasionally be rebooted per the documentation, or the datastore can fill over time. The script below is what we use to reboot our VMs daily, and the ILIO […]
Update 5/16/2017: Thanks to tabularasa for some improvements to this, fixing some missing slashes among other things! In years past, logon scripts were the bane of many logon experiences due to their synchronous nature. Beginning with Windows 7, logon scripts can be processed asynchronously. We glossed over this fact: “Nice […]
Store link or scan the QR code. The Citrix Receiver for Windows 8/RT is 1.4 is now available. The major feature, in my opinion, is Netscaler 10.1 support. Finally we’ll be able to deploy Insight Center to complete the picture with Edgesight for Director. There is, however, a major design flaw […]
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftPowerPowerSettingsabfc2519-3608-4c2a-94ea-171b0ed546ab DWORD: ACSettingIndex Value: 0 (disabled) This change was necessitated when I found a number of virtual desktop brokers were losing connectivity with the Delivery Controller. Upon investigating the ESXi console, I noticed only a black screen, but the VM was marked as “powered on”. The “tasks and events” tab […]
Citrix Director is great for showing you trends for logon performance, but you can’t yet “drill down” to determine which user specifically had the long log on duration. Luckily enough, the SQL database does have this information. The query below will show you all logons from the current day and sort […]
My previous post outlined some of the challenges we faced during our first few weeks on XenDesktop 7 with Atlantis ILIO backing it. We still have challenges to work out (such as how to deliver multiple, simultaneous sessions that do NOT roam from workstation to workstation) but the environment itself […]
After having a rather rough start to a school year (read: ass whooped) it’s time to unleash some hatred that has been building for several years. I’ll try to give a fair shake, but be warned, there are years of bottled up emotions here. Early on, Hyper-V was being touted […]
Add-PSSnapin Citrix* $reg=get-brokerdesktop -MaxRecordCount 9999 -RegistrationState Registered -DesktopGroupName VDIWIN7 -adminaddress citrixdc.contoso.local $results=@(); $reg | %{ $comp=$_.hostedmachinename; $cache=dir “\$compD$.vdiskcache” -force; $results+=”$comp;$($($cache.length)/1GB)”} $path0=”D:WriteCachelatest.txt” $path1=”D:WriteCachewc_$(get-date -format `”yyyy-MM-dd_hh-mm_ss`”).txt” $results | out-file $path0 $results | out-file $path1 Using this script you can go to Excel, Data, Import from Text, select Latest.txt, pivot table. Then all you […]
To say that I’ve been busy the past few weeks is a bit of an understatement. I am relieved and proud to say that as of today we had 193 desktops of 861 in use. We survived a log on / log off of 50 users at once and things […]
The XenDesktop 7 Setup docs clearly specifies that Director and other components can be installed on the same machine, but for redundancy and scaling you can split them up as needed. As our environment has 2 delivery controllers, I wanted to setup a load balancing server, but when I attempted […]
