How to troubleshoot XenServer licensing
XenServer has been using the standard Citrix License Server since version 5.6. This can be a problem at times as there is an external license verification instead of the license file being applied to...
View ArticleHow to Migrate to Citrix License Server VPX
Citrix has just released a new version of the Citrix License Server VPX which are a self-contained Linux-based virtual appliance that allows you to easily deploy licensing in your Citrix environment....
View ArticleAdjusting XenServer Dynamic Memory Minimum Limits
If you’ve ever tried to provision a Windows 7 32-bit XenServer Virtual Machine with dynamic memory, you may have experienced a frustration I have with XenCenter only allowing 1024MB for the Win7...
View ArticleUSB over Network with XenServer 6
Notes: The following configuration was employed on XenServer 6 and 6.0.2. I’ve also used previous versions of usb-redirector on instances of XenServer 5.x, but will not cover their installation. The...
View ArticleUpdating Dell firmware from within XenServer Dom0
I’m bringing a new XenServer 6 pool online so having installed XenServer6 it was time to bring the hardware up to the latest patch and firmware levels. Applying XenServer patches are quite simple via...
View ArticlePHD Virtual Backup and Exporter
PHD Virtual Backup is a fantastic piece of software that I highly recommend. I’ve been running this backup solution in my xenapptraining lab since June 2011 and it has saved my ass many times. It also...
View Articlebash-ing XenServer
Presenting a small bash/shell script for XenServer to export MAC addresses into a text file for further processing like DHCP reservation or NAC management.
View ArticleCitrix XenServer Rolling Upgrade
The Citrix XenServer Rolling upgrade feature was introduced in Citrix XenServer 5.6 Feature Pack 1. This is a fantastic wizard that will upgrade all your XenServers automatically to the latest version...
View ArticleXenServer Performance Degradation when creating VMs from Templates
Like many of you, I have often created VMs from a template in XenServer. What I did not know until now is that it actually creates a Fast clone of the disk. So why should we care? In a word, Storage....
View ArticleXenServer Performance and Scalabilitiy Tuning
There have been performance-related issues reported with certain VDI environments where the number of virtual machines running on XenServer was limited to about 60 or 65. Reports of poor performance...
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