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How to Automate Enabling PVS-Accelerator on Citrix Provisioning Target Devices
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
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10 Building Webster’s Lab – Citrix XenServer Host and Pool Configuration
September 20, 2019
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
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09 Building Webster’s Lab – Install Citrix XenServer 8.0
September 19, 2019
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
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02 Building Webster’s Lab – Configuring a Synology 1817+ NAS for NFS, ESXi 6.7, and XenServer 8.0
September 10, 2019
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
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01 Building Webster’s Lab – Introduction
September 9, 2019
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
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A Look Inside Webster’s Lab – August 2017
August 7, 2017
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
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Citrix XenApp 7.6, Provisioning Services 7.6 and the XenDesktop Setup Wizard with Boot Device Manager
April 13, 2016
I have written several articles about using the Provisioning Services (PVS) XenDesktop Setup Wizard with XenDesktop. Now I wanted to find out if the Wizard would also work with XenApp 7.6. Another ite
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XenServer Ghost Devices Woes
February 1, 2016
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
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XenServer and HP Firmware Woes
December 23, 2015
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
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Citrix XenDesktop 7.6, Provisioning Services 7.6 and the XenDesktop Setup Wizard with Boot Device Manager, Write Cache and Personal vDisk Drives
December 30, 2014
Ever since the first article in this series came out in January 2014, I have been asked by numerous people to add an article that includes Boot Device Manager (BDM). Since I am here but to serve, I
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Removing Machines from a Personal vDisk Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Machine Catalog
December 29, 2014
I wrote an article about Adding Machines to a Personal vDisk Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Machine Catalog and received an email asking what is the process to completely undo everything done by the PVS XenDe
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Adding Machines to a Personal vDisk Citrix XenDesktop 7.x Machine Catalog
December 24, 2014
This year I have written three articles on using Citrix XenDesktop 7.x, Provisioning Services (PVS) 7.x and the XenDesktop Setup Wizard with Write Cache and Personal vDisk (PvD) Drives. In those art
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Citrix XenDesktop 7.6, Provisioning Services 7.6 and the XenDesktop Setup Wizard with Write Cache and Personal vDisk Drives
December 24, 2014
The original articles I wrote for XenDesktop 7.1 and PVS 7.1 and XenDesktop 7.5 and PVS 7.1 have proven to be extremely popular. This article will show the same process as the original articles but
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Citrix XenDesktop 7.5, Provisioning Services 7.1 and the XenDesktop Setup Wizard with Write Cache and Personal vDisk Drives
July 14, 2014
The original article I wrote for XenDesktop 7.1 and PVS 7.1 has proven to be extremely popular. Several people have asked for an article that uses XenDesktop 7.5. This article will show the same p
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Citrix XenDesktop 7.1, Provisioning Services 7.1 and the XenDesktop Setup Wizard with Write Cache and Personal vDisk Drives
January 28, 2014
Recently I worked on a project where the customer required the use of a Write Cache drive and a Personal vDisk (PvD) drive with XenDesktop 7.1 using Provisioning Services (PVS) 7.1. Getting informat
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A Look Inside Webster’s Lab Phase 2
July 26, 2013
I am in the process of rebuilding my lab with Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V 3 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM). This rebuilding project has become quite a learning experien
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Adding an SSD Storage Device to Citrix XenServer
June 18, 2011
[Update 26Mar2019. See Updated section below.] In the process of creating Virtual Machines (VMs) for labs for a customer, I needed to have 10VMs running at the same time. My XenServer host uses a 1.
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What is “Citrix”?
November 17, 2008
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).
December 10, 2020
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