Comments for Unitek Citrix Training Blog http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog Train • Certify • Succeed Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:20:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 Comment on Advanced IMA - Compatibility Mode - Part 1 by Unitek Citrix Blog http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog/?p=55&cpage=1#comment-108 Unitek Citrix Blog Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:40:48 +0000 http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog/?p=55#comment-108 Thanks! Thanks!

]]> Comment on Advanced IMA - Compatibility Mode - Part 1 by Christopher Plessinger http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog/?p=55&cpage=1#comment-107 Christopher Plessinger Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:34:16 +0000 http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog/?p=55#comment-107 Awesome article. You did in one page what couldn't be explained by a MAJORITY of citrix manuals. If you write a book, let me know. I'd buy it. Awesome article. You did in one page what couldn’t be explained by a MAJORITY of citrix manuals. If you write a book, let me know. I’d buy it.

]]> Comment on Top 5 Areas For Improvement In Most Citrix Implementations by Shanell Digeorgio http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-90 Shanell Digeorgio Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:53:51 +0000 http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog/?p=3#comment-90 [..] A little unrelated, but I quite simply liked this site post [..] [..] A little unrelated, but I quite simply liked this site post [..]

]]> Comment on Top 5 Areas For Improvement In Most Citrix Implementations by Lorance http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-61 Lorance Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:26:06 +0000 http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog/?p=3#comment-61 Article is short and Informative.. Article is short and Informative..

]]> Comment on Advanced IMA - Compatibility Mode - Part 1 by Azam Ali http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog/?p=55&cpage=1#comment-58 Azam Ali Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:32:26 +0000 http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog/?p=55#comment-58 Great article. Would recommend to anyone administring a Citrix farm. Keep up the good work. Great article. Would recommend to anyone administring a Citrix farm. Keep up the good work.

]]> Comment on Cloning Citrix XenApp 4.5 on VMware ESX 3.5 by Jordan http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog/?p=61&cpage=1#comment-55 Jordan Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:56:44 +0000 http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog/?p=61#comment-55 thank you, finally, found the instructions! thank you, finally, found the instructions!

]]> Comment on Cloning Citrix XenApp 4.5 on VMware ESX 3.5 by June http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog/?p=61&cpage=1#comment-52 June Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:07:06 +0000 http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog/?p=61#comment-52 haha ^^ nice, is there a section to follow the RSS feed haha ^^ nice, is there a section to follow the RSS feed

]]> Comment on Cloning Citrix XenApp 4.5 on VMware ESX 3.5 by Charlie Tea http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog/?p=61&cpage=1#comment-49 Charlie Tea Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:17:13 +0000 http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog/?p=61#comment-49 There is so much wrong with this method, its hard to know where to start. Knowing Mr. C, makes it even harder. While Mr. C is a competant instructor, his real world knowledge of VMware is VERY lacking and Citrix knowledge is basic. Note I said real world. Here are somethings for you to research Mr. C and anyone who actually tries the above method. Do a registry search for your old server name after the clone, you will see several issues right off the bat. What about anti Virus such as mcafee and netbackup? They depend on the server name - see above. DONT use newsid, Mr C most likely got that from a blog, if anything use the sysprep and VMware method. Personally, the whole clone thing is slow and clunky for most real world citrix server configs. Further try doing the above if you already have service packs installed (note - reinstall of citrix breaks citrix best practice of uninstall sp, then repair, reinstall sp + hotfix). When you use the citrix and pro blog method of cloning, you may find that you have WMI errors which creap up, the best part about his article is the resource manager item, the rest STAY away from. Last, how should you consider doing it? I recommend a clone process for 2003 with apps installed (not the ones you will find that use the server name to operate), after the clone, add to domain, add antivirus, backup soft, monitor software and SCRIPT the install of Citrix. Its easy, its FAST and it works. Ill race the above install method any day and will have a installed, operational, supportable server on each clone. No mess, no old stuff. Here is the hint - search Stealthpuppy, he is the man. And btw - want to learn about Citrix, Unitek is where Mr. C works in Fremont. If you have experience avoid, if you need to learn Citrix Mr. C does a good job, just take it with a grain of salt. Also be sure to bring your tea bags to class. There is so much wrong with this method, its hard to know where to start. Knowing Mr. C, makes it even harder. While Mr. C is a competant instructor, his real world knowledge of VMware is VERY lacking and Citrix knowledge is basic. Note I said real world.

Here are somethings for you to research Mr. C and anyone who actually tries the above method.

Do a registry search for your old server name after the clone, you will see several issues right off the bat.

What about anti Virus such as mcafee and netbackup? They depend on the server name - see above.

DONT use newsid, Mr C most likely got that from a blog, if anything use the sysprep and VMware method. Personally, the whole clone thing is slow and clunky for most real world citrix server configs. Further try doing the above if you already have service packs installed (note - reinstall of citrix breaks citrix best practice of uninstall sp, then repair, reinstall sp + hotfix).

When you use the citrix and pro blog method of cloning, you may find that you have WMI errors which creap up, the best part about his article is the resource manager item, the rest STAY away from.

Last, how should you consider doing it? I recommend a clone process for 2003 with apps installed (not the ones you will find that use the server name to operate), after the clone, add to domain, add antivirus, backup soft, monitor software and SCRIPT the install of Citrix. Its easy, its FAST and it works. Ill race the above install method any day and will have a installed, operational, supportable server on each clone. No mess, no old stuff. Here is the hint - search Stealthpuppy, he is the man.

And btw - want to learn about Citrix, Unitek is where Mr. C works in Fremont. If you have experience avoid, if you need to learn Citrix Mr. C does a good job, just take it with a grain of salt. Also be sure to bring your tea bags to class.

]]> Comment on Cloning Citrix XenApp 4.5 on VMware ESX 3.5 by Kevin Bacon http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog/?p=61&cpage=1#comment-48 Kevin Bacon Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:20:02 +0000 http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog/?p=61#comment-48 I'm curious why you say to disable the memory control driver in the VM tools. What problems have you found with that driver and Citrix? I’m curious why you say to disable the memory control driver in the VM tools. What problems have you found with that driver and Citrix?

]]> Comment on Cloning Citrix XenApp 4.5 on VMware ESX 3.5 by Sean Clark http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog/?p=61&cpage=1#comment-30 Sean Clark Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:20:33 +0000 http://www.unitek.com/training/citrix/blog/?p=61#comment-30 Nice post, but that seems harder than it should be. I personally would have used the Guest Customization script capability in VCS to deploy the XenApp guest from template. This will give you options answer all the questions that sysprep needs to do it's thing, but you can also have scripts called after the XenApp guest is deployed that could finish the clean-up. Most importantly, you can save and re-use the guest cust script so that each XenApp server can be deployed with a few clicks. True 1-touch deployment might might be possible if we create a Perl script that triggers the whole process by interacting with VCS SDK, but I digress. Nice post, but that seems harder than it should be. I personally would have used the Guest Customization script capability in VCS to deploy the XenApp guest from template. This will give you options answer all the questions that sysprep needs to do it’s thing, but you can also have scripts called after the XenApp guest is deployed that could finish the clean-up.
Most importantly, you can save and re-use the guest cust script so that each XenApp server can be deployed with a few clicks. True 1-touch deployment might might be possible if we create a Perl script that triggers the whole process by interacting with VCS SDK, but I digress.

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