Goodbye Secure Gateway, Hello Access Gateway VPX
Filed under: Access Gateway, Secure Gateway | Tags: Access Gateway, Access Gateway Platform License, Access Gateway VPX, Secure Gateway
Comments (6) When Citrix started selling the Access Gateway product line, Secure Gateway became an endangered species. The only question was how would you take a free product like Secure Gateway and transition customers to a paid product like the Access Gateway product line? Well Citrix has done it by releasing the Access Gateway VPX that includes an Access Gateway Platform License that provides Secure Gateway functionality without requiring Access Gateway Universal licenses. In this blog post I am going to go over the Access Gateway Platform License and Access Gateway VPX.
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XenServer “Midnight Ride” Features and Thoughts
Citrix has announced some of the new features in XenServer “Midnight Ride”. This will most be likely be XenServer 6.0. The public beta of XenServer “Midnight Ride” is targeted for mid March. In this blog post I am going to go over some of the new features in XenServer “Midnight Ride” and my thoughts on those announced new features.
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Using XenDesktop with Hyper-V
Filed under: Hyper-V, Provisioning Services, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, XenDesktop | Tags: Hyper-V, Provisioning Server, Provisioning Services, SCVMM, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, XenDesktop
Leave a Comment Recently I have worked with Hyper-V and SCVMM in my lab to get more hands on with Hyper-V R2. I also recently started working with XenDesktop and Hyper-V using the lab manuals I received when I attended Citrix and Microsoft VDI Training back in November. Using XenDesktop with Hyper-V is a pretty straight forward process. In this blog post I am going to go over the process of using XenDesktop with Hyper-V.
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Updating Provisioned XenApp vDisks: To XenAppPrep or not to XenAppPrep?
Filed under: Provisioning Services, XenApp | Tags: Provisioning Server, Provisioning Services, XenApp, XenAppPrep
Comments (4) Over a month ago I was in some conversations with some fellow Citrix consultants on Twitter about how they use XenAppPrep when updating provisioned XenApp servers. There has also been some forum postings on this subject as well. This is also a topic of conversation with customers who are testing Provisioning Services with XenApp. In this blog post I am going to go over some XenAppPrep options when updating provisioned XenApp server images.
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Upgrading Provisioning Services vDisks Target Device Software, Virtual Machine Tools, and Network Drivers
Filed under: Provisioning Services | Tags: Provisioning Server, Provisioning Services, Target Device Software, vDisk
Comments (12) With each release of a Provisioning Services Target Device update, hypervisor virtual machines tools update, or network drivers update we are tasked with upgrading the Provisioning Services vDisk and what method to use to complete the upgrade. In this blog post I am going to go over the options for upgrading Provisioning Services vDisk Target Device software, Virtual Machine Tools, and Network Drivers.
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Choosing a NetScaler: Hardware Appliance or Virtual Appliance
With the release of the NetScaler VPX virtual appliance for Citrix XenServer and VMware ESX I can see there may be some questions on when to use a NetScaler hardware appliance and when to use a NetScaler VPX virtual appliance. In this blog post I am going to go over when to go with a NetScaler hardware appliance and when to go with a NetScaler VPX virtual appliance.
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Citrix Products 2010: A Wish List (continued) +1
Filed under: Access Gateway Enterprise, Citrix Receiver, Merchandising Server, Provisioning Services, XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer | Tags: Application Streaming, Citrix Receiver, Merchandising Server, NetScaler, NetScaler VPX, Power and Capacity Management, Provisioning Server, Provisioning Services, VM Hosted Apps, XenApp, XenDesktop, XenServer
Comments (10) This week Helge Klein started a Citrix products 2010 wish list. Tim Arenz expanded on Helge’s wish list on his blog earlier today. I want to expand on both Helge’s and Tim’s additions with my own wishes as well. I’m sure they both don’t mind since Tim encourages other bloggers to continue adding to this list. Like Tim, I encourage other bloggers to keep this wish list going. Helge’s are in black and Tim’s are in red. So here on are my additions in orange.
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Merchandising Server 1.1 and XenServer Tools Update
Filed under: Citrix Receiver, Merchandising Server, XenServer | Tags: Citrix Receiver, Merchandising Server, XenServer
Comments (4) Citrix has recently released Merchandising Server 1.1. Merchandising Server is a XenServer virtual appliance that allows you to centrally manage the setup of the Citrix Receiver, enables Citrix plug-ins and updates, enables access to web-based user support services, and has management reporting features. I recently downloaded and installed the Merchandising Server virtual appliance in my XenServer lab. The Merchandising Server virtual appliance comes packaged with XenServer tools 5.0. In this blog post I am going to go over installing the Merchandising Server virtual appliance and updating the XenServer tools.
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NetScaler VPX Express is a must for all VMware Environments
Filed under: Access Gateway Enterprise, NetScaler, VMware | Tags: ESX, ESXi, NetScaler, NetScaler VPX, VMware
Comments (6) Citrix has recently released a NetScaler VPX tech preview for VMware. NetScaler VPX is the VMware ESX virtual appliance version of a NetScaler hardware appliance that is installed on the VMware ESX platform. With the release of this VMware ESX virtual appliance, NetScaler VPX Express is must for all VMware environments whether you are using other Citrix products or not in your environment. In a previous post, NetScaler VPX Express is a must of all XenServer Environments, I went over NetScaler VPX and why the Express edition is a must for all XenServer environments. Now NetScaler VPX Express is a must for VMware environments.
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Provisioning Services Database Redundancy – Mirroring or Replication?
Filed under: Provisioning Services | Tags: Provisioning Server, Provisioning Services
Comments (2) Awhile back I wrote the blog post Provisioning Services 5.1 Specifiy Database Mirror Failover Partner…Huh? and got some good feedback from Pete Downing the Principal Product Manager for Provisioning Services. In his comments on my blog post he mentioned that he would like to discuss my views on SQL Server database mirroring versus replication of the Provisioning Services database. In this blog post I am going go over my views on database Mirroring versus Replication of the Provisioning Services database.
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