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This is the second time I have this issue, when clicking on a publish application on the Citrix WebInterface I get this weir message : ERROR: The MetaFrame servers reported that the alternate address cannot be found. I mean weird because I’m on a LAN and I don’t cross any subnet or different VLAN and there is no alernate address configured on these servers.

Error Message at the bottom of my WI :
 

It looks like the LHC (Local Host Cache) doesn’t contain valid informations. And the only way to be sure about that one is to simply recreate the Local Host Cache.

So login on the computer and do as follow :

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Here it is ! Use your MyCitrix account to download this self service application store front (http://tinyurl.com/mbeuod) This is only 3Mb msi and I think this is not the same version we saw at Synergy 2009 but here it is.

Some setup screenshots :

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Now the final release of XenServer 5.5 is available for download ( https://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/results.asp?productID=683148 with you MyCitrix account ) I had to upgrade my XenServer 5.5 beta 1 to this new release.

My first step was to download all iso files and XenCenter 5.5, the I began with and upgrade of XenCenter, and the problem I had once everything was install, that didn’t work… The XenCenter console disn’t show up, the I choose to uninstall everything and delete the folder in “c:\program files\Citrix\XenCenter” and proceed the setup again. It did the trick.

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Here we go, Green Computing is coming ! Now Citrix give us the ability to switch off XenApp servers and switch it on only when the load on the power on server reach a limit. This is very very smart and I think this Power and Capacity Management for XenApp will be a success.

You can watch bellow the video filmed during the Synergy 2009 in Las Vegas :

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To day I read a very interresting blog, and I want to share it because now the service pack 2 for Windows Vista and 2008 is out, we have to know what’s inside !

And Aaron Parker did the work and just blog all the terminal server related fix include in the SP2 :

As you’re most likely aware, Microsoft has recently made available Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2. If you would like to know the details of every single fix and feature in the service pack, download this spreadsheet: Hotfix and Security Update List: Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Vista SP2.

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Today I had to add two 500Gb SATAu hard drive to my XenServer. Plug this two hot plug drive in this Dell 2950 III was the easy part, configure the new RAID1 in the Perc 6i controller wasn’t so easy… This bios is very annoying and after 2 hours we found the good menu and where to create the new volume…

Once this step done, and after 16Gb of memory more, XenServer started without any problem, the drive wasn’t available through the XenCenter so I though I had to mount it or something like that.

So here comes the few steps to add a local storage to your XenServer 5.5 :

Type : fdisk -l

you’ll see the list of all volumes and hard drives, then :

Type : pvcreate /dev/sdb

sdb is my new volume

and then to configure it as a local storage :

Type : xe sr-create type=lvm content-type=user device-config:device=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3320620AS_5QF7QZZL name-label=”LOCAL SR”

scsi-SATA_ST3320620AS_5QF7QZZL is the name of my volume, you’ll have to change this value with your own, and name-label is the name you want to give to your local storage.

and this is it !

I had a new toy and I’m typing this news with it, this is my new Asus eeepc 1000 he. This is really cool, very small and quite powerfull, I have choose to deploy Windows 7 on it and I’m very surprise it works perfectly. This is very very cool with Citrix Receiver I can connect from everywhere at work, when I’m in the train, at a customer office etc etc.

So just to say this new toy took me some time and now I’m late on eveything The XenDesktop installation and setup with PVS is almost complete, I just have to type some word and upload the video, it’s very simple and will allow you to setup you own XenDesktop. I have also setup a XenServer 5.5 beta 1 and a Merchandising Server, I would have like to setup a Dazzle server but the beta is not available yet… Everything should popup very soon in here so stay tune !

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Here it is ! Full of promizes, and full of new options we are all waiting for. Let me tell you first, this is BETA release from Citrix, so don’t complain to me or to Citrix if you crash your production servers, you have to run test and wait for the final new release.

You can access the whole stuff from your MyCitrix account in Tech/Beta preview of XenServer. You have to download the two isos files, the proper license file and XenCenter (there is a new 5.5 version).

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Citrix deliver us a new way to connect to Citrix infrastructure, a new approach to access the application delivery architecture. Exit the classic ICA Client formely know as Client Citrix ICA and on the late XenApp Plugin.

The installation is very basic, you have to install Citrix Receiver to be able to deploy plugin after. Plugins are listed as follow :

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Vmware workstation 6.5.1 build-156735 can be installed on Microsoft Windows 7 RC Build 7100 without any problem. I was able to open all my VM but I had an issue with the network nat translation. All my VM didn’t had internet access through the host nat (Windows 7). Since the Windows 7 Beta Build 7057 a new network address has been used to establish communication between VMWare Workstation and Microsoft Windows 7 (192.168.137.0/24)

Here come a short article to help you to go through :

1. Run the Virtual Network Editor as Administrator (Use RunAS or right click and Run as Administrator on vmnetcfg.exe)
2. Goto Host Virtual Adapters and remove all VMNet instances (VMNet1 and VMNet8 typically).
3. Click Apply.
4. Add New and Assign it the new adapter to VMnet1.
5. Click Apply.
6. Select the Host Virtual Networking tab.
7. Click the > next to VMnet1 and change the address and subnet to the ICS network (192.168.137.0 / 255.255.255.0)
8. Click Apply.

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