{"id":1411,"date":"2013-07-25T06:51:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T06:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atumvirt.com\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2013-07-25T06:51:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T06:51:25","slug":"xendesktop-7-hyper-v-and-windows-server-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/2013\/07\/xendesktop-7-hyper-v-and-windows-server-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"XenDesktop 7, Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we launch into our XenDesktop 5.6 FP1 to XenDesktop 7 upgrade project, a rather precarious situation has arisen. \u00a0The environment is laid out as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 XenDesktop 5.6 FP1 DDC<\/li>\n<li>2 Web Interface<\/li>\n<li>2 Microsoft SQL Servers<\/li>\n<li>2 Provisioning Services 6.1 servers<\/li>\n<li>2 XenApp 6.5 application hosts \u00a0(no desktops)<\/li>\n<li>SCVMM 2012 \u00a0connecting to\u00a0Hyper-V 2008 R2.<\/li>\n<li>All servers mentioned are Windows Server 2008 R2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/support.citrix.com\/article\/CTX136082\">CTX136082 FAQ<\/a>\u00a0it is made quite clear that XenDesktop 5.6 runs only on Server 2008 or Server 2008 R2. \u00a0This means that we can use SCVMM 2012 only (not SP1) since the SCVMM 2012 SP1 won&#8217;t install on 2008 R2. \u00a0One cannot simply install or upgrade to SCVMM 2012 SP1 because that is only supported on server 2012, and XenDesktop 5.6 can&#8217;t connect to it. \u00a0In essence, there is (apparently) no &#8220;clean&#8221; way to do a seamless upgrade without incurring some sort of system downtime. \u00a0Our hope was to be able to accomplish this in a bit of a rolling fashion. \u00a0Since a Hyper-V host can&#8217;t be managed by two SCVMM instances, we can&#8217;t simply install SCVMM 2012 SP1 side-by-side.<\/p>\n<p>Our plan of attack is instead to build a completely separate SCVMM and XenDesktop 7 infrastructure by breaking up our cluster, creating enough VDI to allow our users to connect to a desktop uninterrupted. \u00a0We&#8217;ll switch the users from web interface to storefront (with XD7), then tear down our old infrastructure. \u00a0Luckily for us we had the spare capacity to be able to remove a host from the cluster to facilitate a completely separate environment, but it seems like quite a gap in the upgrade process. \u00a0 More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we launch into our XenDesktop 5.6 FP1 to XenDesktop 7 upgrade project, a rather precarious situation has arisen. \u00a0The environment is laid out as follows: 2 XenDesktop 5.6 FP1 DDC 2 Web Interface 2 Microsoft SQL Servers 2 Provisioning Services 6.1 servers 2 XenApp 6.5 application hosts \u00a0(no desktops) SCVMM 2012 \u00a0connecting to\u00a0Hyper-V 2008 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,82,33,51,62,77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}