I spent 688 hours on the article series and another 50 hours getting this PDF edited and created. Along the way, Grammarly kept finding issues to correct. All the corrections are also in the posted ar

[Updated 29-Aug-2021] The next step is to create a management computer from the Windows 10 template with the additional servers built and configured. We use the VM built in this article for PowerShell

[Updated 29-Aug-2021] With the base of the Vmware infrastructure, Active Directory (AD), Certification Authority (CA), and Group Policy (GPO) built, the next step is to create additional server VMs fr

Before getting to work adding Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) and VMware Horizon to the lab, a few additional items are on the XenCenter to-do list. Update DNS server entries for each XenServ

[Updated 28-Aug-2021] With the Server 2019 template created, the next step is to create VMs from the template. We use the VMs built in this article for the first three Microsoft infrastructure servers

[Updated 28-Aug-2021] With both VMware vSphere and vCenter and Citrix XenServer and XenCenter installed and basic configuration completed, the next step is to create a Windows Server 2019 master image

[Updated 28-Aug-2021] Now that you have installed the XenServer host, the host’s configuration can begin. As stated in the Introduction article, Citrix uses XenCenter to manage one or more XenSe

[Updated 28-Aug-2021] Installing Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer) 8.2 is easy as there are not many options. It is almost a “Next, Next, Install, Finish, Reboot” process. The first thing is t

[Updated 27-Aug-2021] In the “Introduction” article, I made the following statements: I decided to go with Network File System (NFS) instead of Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (

[Updated 27-Aug-2021] On September 9, 2019, I published the Building Webster’s Lab V1 article series that used vSphere/vCenter 6.7 U3 and XenServer 8.0. This is a follow-up series on building th

Recently, in one of the Slack Workspaces I am part of, someone asked how to enable PVS-Accelerator on numerous Citrix Provisioning (PVS) target devices. I wrote this article to explain how I came up w

Now that you have installed the XenServer host, the host’s configuration can begin. As stated in the Introduction article, Citrix uses XenCenter to manage one or more XenServer hosts. The first

Installing Citrix XenServer 8.0 is easy as there are not many options. It is almost a “Next, Next, Install, Finish, Reboot” process. The first thing is to download the latest XenServer 8.0

Updated 21-Dec-2019 In the “Introduction” article, I made the following statements: For storage, I decided to go with Network File System (NFS) instead of Internet Small Computer Systems I

Updated 12-Dec-2019 I started work on rebuilding my lab in June 2018, and then life happened. During the 2019 New Year’s holiday break, I finally got back to working on the lab rebuild, but stil

August 2017 Every now and then, people ask me about the lab environment.  This article will give you an update on what is in my lab since the December 2016 article. I believe everyone should have a

As you may recall from my previous article, XenServer and HP Firmware Woes,  I was involved in a rather large XenServer upgrade project. Anyone that has done some XenServer updates/upgrades surely

It’s a virtual world nowadays. But sometimes, even in a virtual world, physical problems can be a real pain. Recently I was involved in upgrading/migrating an outdated XenServer 6.0 setup, runni

[Update 26Mar2019. See Updated section below.] Note: This still works for XenServer 8.2 In the process of creating Virtual Machines (VMs) for labs for a customer, I needed to have 10VMs running at the

The first question usually asked by the Accidental Citrix Admin is “what is citrix?”. There are two ways the term “citrix” is used: as a specific product or as the name of a company which provides that product. Usually when “citrix” is mentioned, the term is referring to software used to allow multiple user access to one or more applications hosted on another computer (normally a server).