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Citrix Synergy San Francisco 2012 highlights

Stephane Thirion — Sat, 19 May 2012 15:40:01 +0000

Every year I cross half of the planet to go over the United States in San Francisco to attend Citrix Synergy event. This is every time very exciting, meeting new people, friends, geeks and of course doing some business. This year was different as I didn’t had time to go to all the session I planned to attend due to an heavy but very pleasant schedule with CTPs. I had time to attend the keynotes and see what Citrix was ready to unleash for this major virtualization event, I will sum up everything that I think are the key points for the future of our job.

The main topic of keynote since two years ago is the Cloud, Personal, Private or Public, the Cloud is everywhere; look I even put an upper case when I write Cloud

GoTo products :

GoToAssist have reach 50M sessions, translated to 15 languages with a fastest time to service. GoToAssist for iPad and now for Android are available for free. You can download the Android app here : [here]

The mobile workstyle with GoToMeeting to work with anyone anywhere across any device gets HD faces available on iPad today.

Wyse :

After Wyse Xenith (zero client ) Wyse announced Xentih 2 [link] which is (supposed) to be 40% faster, more secure, true 720P with multi-monitor support.

Of course no one missed the fact Wyse has been acquired by Dell [link]

HP :

HP announce one of the coolest hardware during this Synergy, the HP t410 All-in-one, System on a chip, HDX ready and PoE (Power over Ethernet) consuming only 13watt, this is cool for a 18,5 inch screen. If you don’t use PoE, you can still use a regular power cord. This is not a revolution but an evolution, this zero client screen have a price, 429$

Specifications : [link]

Citrix VDI-in-a-Box

Now with a full HDX experience, and scale like lego block. What’s really new is you can upgrade from VDI-in-a-Box to XenDesktop licenses.

Citrix VDI-in-a-Box won the best of Interrop Award 2012 in cloud computing and virtualization category [link]

Dell DVS simplified powered by VDI-in-a-Box appear to be a good solution for SMB who need fast deployment [link]

AppDNA

AppDNA introduce new features / module like physical to virtual transition, Windows OS and browser upgrades with a new version released v6.1 [link]

Citrix XenClient, acquisition of Virtual Computer

Virtual Computer will bring to Citrix a powerful backend to manage XenClient computer and provide simple enterprise wide deployment , advanced policy and security control and automated backup and recovery.

This new product is due to be launch for 175$ per user in Q2 2012 and that will the chosen name is XenClient Enterprise Edition, the big news, this will be free for existing XenDesktop Enterprise customers.

Microsoft

Microsoft System center 2012 tight integration across Citrix portfolio, we could feel Citrix pushing to use Microsoft production to centralize the management of their product (Do they count on Microsoft to bring us the holy and only one console to manage most of the Citrix products ?) And of course Citrix did insist on the importance of XenDesktop with Windows 8.

Citrix acquire Podio

Podio is team collaboration with all the power of social networks, you can add workspaces for employees, customers and partners. In Podio there are already 100s of pre build workflow applications, you can also customize and build new application. Podio look like Microsoft Sharepoint with a Facebook look and feel. Of course since Citrix acquired Podio [link] there is an integration with Sharefile, GoToMeetings and soon Receiver Integration with HTML 5 client (use of Google chrome)

Citrix ShareFile with StorageZone

ShareFile Storage Zones allows customers to run the storage systems on-premise. This lets business users store and send files in-house on their own private cloud, or on Amazon S3, or on both, It’s for companies that want to host the files themselves.

Citrix Receiver

The new Citrix Receiver release is plan for July, Receiver Chromebook, Citrix Receiver with follow me data and Receiver with ShareFile integration.

Citrix Cloud Gateway 2

This new release add mobile and data controllers :

Including this two new controller will leverage file sharing and apps / mobility. This is the unified storefront for mobile, web saas and windows apps. A native HTML5 client should be included for iOS and Android.

Here are some features I wrote down during the keynote :

Set data access policies centrally
Single sign on for apps and data
Wipe apps and data remotly
Support 2B + PCs mac …..

For iOS :

Native app install through receiver for iOS !

Citrix XenDesktop

Citrix introduced a new Flexcast model = remote PC (what people were already doing, but this is a way to license it)

Deep compression codec HDX3D Pro
System Center Configuration Manager again
Windows 8 will be fully support

Citrix CloudBridge 2

Citrix CloudBridge 2 has been announced, it will allow to connect to even more remote Cloud, public and/or private, it will be available in June.

Citrix CloudStack

Citrix moved CloudStack to the Apache software foundation to make CloudStack more powerful, the new name of the product is Apache CloudStack. Now Citrix CloudStack is no more (it’s Apache CloudStack) a new Citrix product comes in and it’s Citrix CloudPlatform powered by Apache CloudStack… You followed ? It’s available today here : [link]

Citrix -Apache CloudStack announcement : [link]

Citrix Netscaler

Netscaler 10 have been released few weeks ago with TriScale technology :

Scale Upelasticity with 5x faster performance on-demand with the simple NetScaler Pay-As-You-Grow software-based licensing model. This eliminates costly over provisioning, avoids regular ‘forklift’ appliance upgrades, and obviates the need to buy expensive chassis-based systems just to reserve empty slots in anticipation of future growth.
Scale Inconsolidation with the multi-function NetScaler SDX platform to simplify datacenter networks, eliminate appliance sprawl and streamline operational management by consolidating up to 40 independently managed devices into a single, easy-to-manage appliance. Unlike alternative solutions, the new NetScaler TriScale technology consolidates multiple appliances with no loss of functionality, and no performance compromises.
Scale Out to expand capacity up to 32x by seamlessly adding appliances to existing NetScaler deployments in a “plug-and-play” fashion with TriScale clustering, without the need to stand up redundant high-availability pairs. For the first time, datacenter managers can build a highly efficient infrastructure that meets current application demand, and then scale incrementally as traffic increases, with the capability to reach unprecedented performance levels exceeding 1 terabit/sec (Tbps).

Sources :
GoToAssist Android App : [link]
Wyse Xenith 2 : [link]
Dell acquire Wyse : [link]
VIAB Best of Interop Award : [link]
Dell DVS powered by VDI-in-a-Box : [link]
HP t410 AiO : [link]
Citrix AppDNA 6.1 : [link]
Citrix Acquired Podio : [link]
Citrix CloudPlatform download : [link]
Citrix -Apache CloudStack announcement : [link]

Citrix TV – Synergy San Francisco 2012

Stephane Thirion — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:32:42 +0000

That was a very nice and very busy event, and I’m very happy to have this chance to meet so many nice people from all around the world. It was very nice to speak and exchange with absolutly all of you. Once again I learned so many things my brain is still smoking from last week.

With my fellow friends and CTP Chris Rogers et Joseph Melika we made a short appearance on Citrix TV :

A soon coming blog will present you the Synergy focus point I did to try to make things clear a get the head of this event with the main and most important information.

Citrix Synergy San Francisco 2012

Stephane Thirion — Wed, 02 May 2012 11:49:32 +0000

Here we are, already in May and time for another Citrix Synergy in San Francisco. This year won’t be the same as it’s the first time I will attend this event as a CTP. I won’t attend as much session as I’m used to because there is a lot of CTP things goings around but I will focus on most important point for me. Like every Synergy, I share here my planned schedule (subject to change) and I will be very glad to meet all of you and share like we do every time.

Monday, May 7
7:00 am- 9:00 am	Continental Breakfast – Moscone West and Hilton
11:45 am- 1:30 pm	Lunch – Level 3, Moscone West
4:00 pm- 6:00 pm	SUM001 – Summit Welcome Address – Level 3, Moscone West Moscone West Level 3
7:00 pm-10:00 pm	Partner Appreciation Party

Tuesday, May 8
7:00 am- 9:00 am	Continental Breakfast – Moscone West and Hilton
11:45 am- 1:30 pm	Lunch – Level 3, Moscone West
4:30 pm- 6:30 pm	SYN501 – Geek Speak Tonight! (GSL!) Moscone West 2007
7:00 pm-10:00 pm	Synergy Welcome Reception – Level 1, Solutions Expo, Moscone West

Wednesday, May 9
7:00 am- 9:00 am	Continental Breakfast – Moscone West and Hilton
8:00 am- 8:45 am	SYN502 – Sizing your next XenApp farm is not a black art (GSL!) Moscone West 2002
9:00 am- 9:45 am	SYN119 – Deep dive on XenDesktop personal vDisk Moscone West 2007
10:30 am-12:30 pm	SYN001 – Synergy Opening Keynote Moscone West Level 3
12:30 pm- 2:30 pm	Lunch – Level 1, Solutions Expo, Moscone West
2:30 pm- 3:15 pm	SYN504 – Desktop virtualization smackdown 2012 (GSL!) Moscone West 2002
3:30 pm- 4:15 pm	SYN205 – Deep dive on CloudGateway Moscone West 2007
4:30 pm- 5:15 pm	SYN506 – Finally, let’s talk about real-world Citrix XenApp experiences (GSL!) Moscone West 2002

Thursday, May 10
7:00 am- 9:00 am	Continental Breakfast – Moscone West and Hilton
8:30 am-10:30 am	SYN002 – Day Two General Session Moscone West Level 3
12:15 pm- 2:00 pm	Lunch – Level 1, Solutions Expo, Moscone West and Golden Gate & Continental Foyers, Hilton
2:00 pm- 2:45 pm	SYN199 – Gaze into the Citrix CTO crystal ball Moscone West 2007
3:00 pm- 3:45 pm	SYN509 – Virtual reality check: an insider’s guide to virtualization (GSL!) Moscone West 2002
4:00 pm- 4:45 pm	SYN510 – Can the CTPs stump the Citrix architects? (GSL!) Moscone West 2002
5:00 pm- 5:45 pm	SYN511 – Life in the virtual trenches: a guide to guerilla troubleshooting (GSL!) Moscone West 2002
7:00 pm-11:00 pm	Synergy Party – Level 3, Moscone West

Friday, May 11
7:00 am- 9:00 am	Continental Breakfast – Moscone West and Hilton
9:00 am- 9:45 am	SYN512 – Remoting multimedia and interactive graphics applications: HDX vs. the rest of the world (GSL!) Moscone West 2002
10:00 am-10:45 am	SYN219 – Introducing the ShareFile on-premises tech preview Moscone West 2007
11:00 am-11:45 am	SYN514 – User environment smackdown 2012 (GSL!) Moscone West 2002
11:45 am- 1:00 pm	Lunch – Level 3, Moscone West and Lobby Level, Golden Gate Foyer & Continental Foyer, Hilton
1:00 pm- 1:45 pm	SYN515 – 10 ways Active Directory can hurt XenDesktop or XenApp and how to fix them (GSL!) Moscone West 2002
2:00 pm- 2:45 pm	SYN516 – Hypervisor showdown: what solution is best and does it really matter? (GSL!) Moscone West 2002

If you want to meet me, you can reach me either by email / Twitter / Linkedin / Facebook / Phone, you will find how to reach me by hitting the contact menu on the top of this website.

I’m ready to rock #CitrixSynergy #GeekSpeak

Receiver Storefront – adding a server to a server group

Stephane Thirion — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:46:38 +0000

As I’m going through high availability architecture design for some customer with CloudGateway features, Receiver Storefront, I wanted to try in my XenServer @ home lab the “Join existing server group” option build in Receiver Storefront when you launch it for the first time.

My first server already setup is SUOMIWEB02 and I want to install Receiver Storefront on the server SUOMIWEB01 which actually host my WebInterface 5.4. Since Receiver Storefront 1.1 you can install it on the same server as the WebInterface (for migration purpose). You can find bellow a brief description about what’s new in the 1.1 version.

What’s New in Receiver Storefront 1.1

Pass-through authentication to AppController. Once logged on to Citrix Receiver or Access Gateway, users can access Web and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications through AppController without needing to authenticate again. For more information, see Planning Your Receiver Storefront Deployment.

Default support for legacy clients. When you create a new store, access for older clients that support Web Interface XenApp Services sites is enabled by default. For more information, see Configuring Stores.

Installation alongside Web Interface. Receiver Storefront can be hosted on the same Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) instance as Web Interface. For more information, see Installing and Setting Up Receiver Storefront.

Other Features

High availability. You can group your Receiver Storefront servers for increased scalability and fault tolerance. For more information, see Planning Your Receiver Storefront Deployment.

Application synchronization. Subscribed desktops and applications follow users from device to device so that they do not need to subscribe to the same resources each time they use a different device. For more information, see Planning Your Receiver Storefront Deployment.

Automatically provisioned applications. You can automatically subscribe all users to a core set of applications. For more information, see Integrating Receiver Storefront into Your Environment.

One-click client configuration. You can configure Citrix Receiver for your users by making provisioning files available. For more information, see Configuring Stores.

I won’t explain the installation process again, it’s very simple and you can still check it here if you need it : http://www.archy.net/2011/12/31/web-interface-moving-forward-to-receiver-strorefront/

Let’s focus on the server I want to add to my existing setup, 1 server hosting Storefront Receiver with an external SQL database.

This is the step by step how to you need to follow to do so :

On the new Receiver Strorefront (SUOMIWEB01) server :

On the existing Receiver Strorefront (SUOMIWEB02) server :

On the new Receiver Strorefront (SUOMIWEB01) server :

On the existing Receiver Strorefront (SUOMIWEB02) server

The two servers are now part of the same Receiver Storefront group, now you need to synchronize them, to do so, you need to follow the next step on the NEW Receiver Storefront server :

Now everything is ready. you need to think how to load balance them, Microsoft NLB or another load balancer appliance (NetScaler for example)

Of course I had some issue during this simple process because I used my “old” WebInterface 5.4 server to host the new Receiver Storefront server… The synchronization was failing…

and I had 3 error messages in the event log of the new server I was trying to add to the Receiver Storefront group :

Code block

Log Name:      Citrix Delivery Services
Source:        Citrix Configuration Replication Service
Date:          4/21/2012 10:17:31 PM
Event ID:      1
Task Category: (2850)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      SUOMIWEB01.SUOMI.INC
Description:
 
Citrix.DeliveryServices.PowerShell.Command.Runner.Exceptions.PowerShellExecutionException, Citrix.DeliveryServices.PowerShell.Command.Runner, Version=2.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=e8b77d454fa2a856
An error occured running the command: 'Add-DSFeatureInstances'
 
System.Management.Automation.ActionPreferenceStopException, System.Management.Automation, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35
Command execution stopped because the preference variable "ErrorActionPreference" or common parameter is set to Stop: Exception of type 'Citrix.DeliveryServices.Framework.Web.Deployment.Exceptions.WebApplicationAlreadyExists' was thrown.
   at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.SynchronousExecuteEnumerate(Object input, Hashtable errorResults, Boolean enumerate)
   at System.Management.Automation.PipelineNode.Execute(Array input, Pipe outputPipe, ArrayList& resultList, ExecutionContext context)
   at System.Management.Automation.StatementListNode.ExecuteStatement(ParseTreeNode statement, Array input, Pipe outputPipe, ArrayList& resultList, ExecutionContext context)
 
Event Xml:

  
    
    1
    2
    2850
    0x80000000000000
    
    85
    Citrix Delivery Services
    SUOMIWEB01.SUOMI.INC
    
  
  
    
Citrix.DeliveryServices.PowerShell.Command.Runner.Exceptions.PowerShellExecutionException, Citrix.DeliveryServices.PowerShell.Command.Runner, Version=2.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=e8b77d454fa2a856
An error occured running the command: 'Add-DSFeatureInstances'
 
System.Management.Automation.ActionPreferenceStopException, System.Management.Automation, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35
Command execution stopped because the preference variable "ErrorActionPreference" or common parameter is set to Stop: Exception of type 'Citrix.DeliveryServices.Framework.Web.Deployment.Exceptions.WebApplicationAlreadyExists' was thrown.
   at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.SynchronousExecuteEnumerate(Object input, Hashtable errorResults, Boolean enumerate)
   at System.Management.Automation.PipelineNode.Execute(Array input, Pipe outputPipe, ArrayList& resultList, ExecutionContext context)
   at System.Management.Automation.StatementListNode.ExecuteStatement(ParseTreeNode statement, Array input, Pipe outputPipe, ArrayList& resultList, ExecutionContext context)

Code block

Log Name:      Citrix Delivery Services
Source:        Citrix Configuration Replication Service
Date:          4/21/2012 10:17:31 PM
Event ID:      12
Task Category: (2801)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      SUOMIWEB01.SUOMI.INC
Description:
Failure to notify of configuration update.
Citrix.DeliveryServices.PowerShell.Command.Runner.Exceptions.PowerShellExecutionException, Citrix.DeliveryServices.PowerShell.Command.Runner, Version=2.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=e8b77d454fa2a856
An error occured running the command: 'Add-DSFeatureInstances'
   at Citrix.DeliveryServices.PowerShell.Command.Runner.PowerShellCommandRunner.RunCommand(IPowerShellCommand command)
   at Citrix.DeliveryServices.ConfigurationReplication.PowerShell.ConfigurationWriterBL.AddFeatureInstances(List`1 instancesToCreate, List`1 featureClasses)
   at Citrix.DeliveryServices.ConfigurationReplication.BL.Synchronisation.ConfigurationSync.SynchroniseInstances(FeatureInstancesInfo instances)
   at Citrix.DeliveryServices.ConfigurationReplication.BL.Synchronisation.ConfigurationSyncController.Update(Guid primarySynchronisationLevel)
   at Citrix.DeliveryServices.ConfigurationReplication.BL.Synchronisation.ConfigurationSyncController.UpdateHostConfiguration(Guid synchronisationLevel, IConfigurationSync sync, IConfigurationReplication proxy, IPersistServiceState store)
   at Citrix.DeliveryServices.ConfigurationReplication.BL.Synchronisation.ConfigurationSyncController.UpdateHostConfiguration(Guid synchronisationLevel, String proxyEndpoint)
   at Citrix.DeliveryServices.ConfigurationReplication.WCF.ConfigurationReplication.<>c__DisplayClass3.b__1(Object asr)
 
System.Management.Automation.ActionPreferenceStopException, System.Management.Automation, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35
Command execution stopped because the preference variable "ErrorActionPreference" or common parameter is set to Stop: Exception of type 'Citrix.DeliveryServices.Framework.Web.Deployment.Exceptions.WebApplicationAlreadyExists' was thrown.
   at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.SynchronousExecuteEnumerate(Object input, Hashtable errorResults, Boolean enumerate)
   at System.Management.Automation.PipelineNode.Execute(Array input, Pipe outputPipe, ArrayList& resultList, ExecutionContext context)
   at System.Management.Automation.StatementListNode.ExecuteStatement(ParseTreeNode statement, Array input, Pipe outputPipe, ArrayList& resultList, ExecutionContext context)
 
Event Xml:

  
    
    12
    2
    2801
    0x80000000000000
    
    86
    Citrix Delivery Services
    SUOMIWEB01.SUOMI.INC
    
  
  
    Failure to notify of configuration update.
Citrix.DeliveryServices.PowerShell.Command.Runner.Exceptions.PowerShellExecutionException, Citrix.DeliveryServices.PowerShell.Command.Runner, Version=2.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=e8b77d454fa2a856
An error occured running the command: 'Add-DSFeatureInstances'
   at Citrix.DeliveryServices.PowerShell.Command.Runner.PowerShellCommandRunner.RunCommand(IPowerShellCommand command)
   at Citrix.DeliveryServices.ConfigurationReplication.PowerShell.ConfigurationWriterBL.AddFeatureInstances(List`1 instancesToCreate, List`1 featureClasses)
   at Citrix.DeliveryServices.ConfigurationReplication.BL.Synchronisation.ConfigurationSync.SynchroniseInstances(FeatureInstancesInfo instances)
   at Citrix.DeliveryServices.ConfigurationReplication.BL.Synchronisation.ConfigurationSyncController.Update(Guid primarySynchronisationLevel)
   at Citrix.DeliveryServices.ConfigurationReplication.BL.Synchronisation.ConfigurationSyncController.UpdateHostConfiguration(Guid synchronisationLevel, IConfigurationSync sync, IConfigurationReplication proxy, IPersistServiceState store)
   at Citrix.DeliveryServices.ConfigurationReplication.BL.Synchronisation.ConfigurationSyncController.UpdateHostConfiguration(Guid synchronisationLevel, String proxyEndpoint)
   at Citrix.DeliveryServices.ConfigurationReplication.WCF.ConfigurationReplication.<>c__DisplayClass3.<BeginUpdateConfiguration>b__1(Object asr)
 
System.Management.Automation.ActionPreferenceStopException, System.Management.Automation, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35
Command execution stopped because the preference variable "ErrorActionPreference" or common parameter is set to Stop: Exception of type 'Citrix.DeliveryServices.Framework.Web.Deployment.Exceptions.WebApplicationAlreadyExists' was thrown.
   at System.Management.Automation.Internal.PipelineProcessor.SynchronousExecuteEnumerate(Object input, Hashtable errorResults, Boolean enumerate)
   at System.Management.Automation.PipelineNode.Execute(Array input, Pipe outputPipe, ArrayList& resultList, ExecutionContext context)
   at System.Management.Automation.StatementListNode.ExecuteStatement(ParseTreeNode statement, Array input, Pipe outputPipe, ArrayList& resultList, ExecutionContext context)

Code block

Log Name:      Citrix Delivery Services
Source:        Citrix Configuration Replication Service
Date:          4/21/2012 10:17:31 PM
Event ID:      19
Task Category: (2801)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      SUOMIWEB01.SUOMI.INC
Description:
Failed to get the end status of the sever configuration update.
System.ServiceModel.FaultException, System.ServiceModel, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
An error occured running the command: 'Add-DSFeatureInstances'
   at Citrix.DeliveryServices.ConfigurationReplication.WCF.ConfigurationReplication.EndUpdateConfiguration(IAsyncResult asyncResult)
 
Event Xml:

  
    
    19
    2
    2801
    0x80000000000000
    
    88
    Citrix Delivery Services
    SUOMIWEB01.SUOMI.INC
    
  
  
    Failed to get the end status of the sever configuration update.
System.ServiceModel.FaultException, System.ServiceModel, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089
An error occured running the command: 'Add-DSFeatureInstances'
   at Citrix.DeliveryServices.ConfigurationReplication.WCF.ConfigurationReplication.EndUpdateConfiguration(IAsyncResult asyncResult)

If you read carefully, an existing webapplication was existing causing an issue, and when I checked my existing and the new server C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Citrix and I had the PNAgent directory on both side. So I just wen to disable the PNAgent legacy feature on the existing Receiver Storefront server and the synchronization went fine. If I need to enable the PNAgent legacy feature again, I will need to change the directory of the PNAgent service site on the “old” WebInterface 5.4. If you add a brand new server to an existing configuration you want have this issue.

Resources :
Receiver Storefront 1.1 eDocs : [link]
Receiver Storefront 1.1 download : [link]

Citrix License Server 11.10 installation hang

Stephane Thirion — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:48:26 +0000

I had to update a Windows 2003 – Citrix License Server at one customer place and I wasn’t ready for that… For the first time of my Citrix life I had to troubleshoot an upgrade process….

I have try to uninstall / install, update nothing allowed me to complete the installation of the Citrix License Server 11.10 on a Windows 2003 server… The installation was just stuck and never ended the installation process.

So I had to understand why this installation was stuck, in the event log I had this message :

“A provider, Citrix_GTLicensingProv, has been registered in the WMI namespace, Root\CitrixLicensing, to use the LocalSystem account. This account is privileged and the provider may cause a security violation if it doe not correctly impersonate user requests.”

Weird message and I’m not sure it’s related to the installation issue I have so I chose to use the good old msiexec command line to enable verbose logfile of the installation process :

Code block

msiexec.exe /i CTX_Licensing.msi /lv* c:\temp\CTX_Licensing.log /qb+

And surprisingly I got useful information !

Msiexec Log for Citrix Licence Server

Fin de l'action 15:16:58 : RemoveExistingProducts. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:58 : ProcessComponents.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : ProcessComponents. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : MsiUnpublishAssemblies.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : MsiUnpublishAssemblies. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : UnpublishFeatures.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : UnpublishFeatures. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : StopServices.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : StopServices. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : DeleteServices.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : DeleteServices. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : UnregisterTypeLibraries.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : UnregisterTypeLibraries. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : UninstallPerfCounterData.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : UninstallPerfCounterData. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : RemoveRegistryValues.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : RemoveRegistryValues. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : UnregisterClassInfo.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : UnregisterClassInfo. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : UnregisterExtensionInfo.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : UnregisterExtensionInfo. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : UnregisterProgIdInfo.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : UnregisterProgIdInfo. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : SetCitrixShortCutFolder.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : SetCitrixShortCutFolder. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : SetLACShortCutFolder.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : SetLACShortCutFolder. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : RemoveFiles.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : RemoveFiles. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : RemoveFolders.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : RemoveFolders. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : SetACLProps.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : SetACLProps. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : CreateFolders.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : CreateFolders. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : InstallFiles.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : InstallFiles. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : RegisterClassInfo.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : RegisterClassInfo. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : RegisterExtensionInfo.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : RegisterExtensionInfo. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : RegisterProgIdInfo.
Fin de l'action 15:16:59 : RegisterProgIdInfo. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:16:59 : WriteRegistryValues.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : WriteRegistryValues. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : InstallPerfCounterData.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : RegisterPerfCounterData.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : RegisterPerfCounterData. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : RollbackRegisterPerfCounterData.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : RollbackRegisterPerfCounterData. Valeur de retour 1.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : InstallPerfCounterData. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : RegisterTypeLibraries.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : RegisterTypeLibraries. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : CompileLicWMIMofFile.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : CompileLicWMIMofFile. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : InstallServices.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : InstallServices. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : CTX_LS_PerServiceSID.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : CTX_LS_PerServiceSID. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : SetAccountAclProps.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : SetAccountAclProps. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : CTX_SetupACLs.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : CTX_SetupACLs. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : SetInstallAcls.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : SetInstallAcls. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : CTX_InstallACLs.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : CTX_InstallACLs. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : CA_AddServiceSid.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : CA_AddServiceSid. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : CustomAction_SetCustomActionData_CopyConfigTemplate.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : CustomAction_SetCustomActionData_CopyConfigTemplate. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : CustomAction_CopyConfigTemplate.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : CustomAction_CopyConfigTemplate. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : StartServices.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : StartServices. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : RegisterUser.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : RegisterUser. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : RegisterProduct.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : RegisterProduct. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : MsiPublishAssemblies.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : MsiPublishAssemblies. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : PublishFeatures.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : PublishFeatures. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : PublishProduct.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : PublishProduct. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : LaunchReserveURL_CmdLine.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : LaunchReserveURL_CmdLine. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : LaunchReserveURL_CmdLine_Property.
Fin de l'action 15:17:00 : LaunchReserveURL_CmdLine_Property. Valeur de retour 1.
Début de l'action 15:17:00 : InstallFinalize.
CAQuietExec:
CAQuietExec:  ERROR:  Unrecognized command
CAQuietExec:
CAQuietExec:  DESCRIPTION:
CAQuietExec:          SC is a command line program used for communicating with the
CAQuietExec:          Service Control Manager and services.
CAQuietExec:  USAGE:
CAQuietExec:          sc     ...
CAQuietExec:
CAQuietExec:
CAQuietExec:          The option  has the form "\\ServerName"
CAQuietExec:          Further help on commands can be obtained by typing: "sc "
CAQuietExec:          Commands:
CAQuietExec:            query-----------Queries the status for a service, or
CAQuietExec:                            enumerates the status for types of services.
CAQuietExec:            queryex---------Queries the extended status for a service, or
CAQuietExec:                            enumerates the status for types of services.
CAQuietExec:            start-----------Starts a service.
CAQuietExec:            pause-----------Sends a PAUSE control request to a service.
CAQuietExec:            interrogate-----Sends an INTERROGATE control request to a service.
CAQuietExec:            continue--------Sends a CONTINUE control request to a service.
CAQuietExec:            stop------------Sends a STOP request to a service.
CAQuietExec:            config----------Changes the configuration of a service (persistent).
CAQuietExec:            description-----Changes the description of a service.
CAQuietExec:            failure---------Changes the actions taken by a service upon failure.
CAQuietExec:            qc--------------Queries the configuration information for a service.
CAQuietExec:            qdescription----Queries the description for a service.
CAQuietExec:            qfailure--------Queries the actions taken by a service upon failure.
CAQuietExec:            delete----------Deletes a service (from the registry).
CAQuietExec:            create----------Creates a service. (adds it to the registry).
CAQuietExec:            control---------Sends a control to a service.
CAQuietExec:            sdshow----------Displays a service's security descriptor.
CAQuietExec:            sdset-----------Sets a service's security descriptor.
CAQuietExec:            GetDisplayName--Gets the DisplayName for a service.
CAQuietExec:            GetKeyName------Gets the ServiceKeyName for a service.
CAQuietExec:            EnumDepend------Enumerates Service Dependencies.
CAQuietExec:
CAQuietExec:          The following commands don't require a service name:
CAQuietExec:          sc

The installer wasn’t able to process the creation of a service (sc.exe command) and I found this Microsoft Security Bulletin : MS09-012 The I downloaded the KB956572 and installed it on the License Server.

Then the installation went fine… I lost half of a day trying to understand what was wrong…

Resources :
MS09-012 – Vulnerabilities in Windows Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (959454)
Security Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB956572)
Citrix License Server 11.10 download

Vulnerabilities in Windows Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (959454)

What’s new in XenDesktop 5.6 – PvD

Stephane Thirion — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 19:51:00 +0000

Now XenDesktop 5.6 is out, let go for a blog about what’s new and interesting in this release. It begins with official documentation, RTFM rules apply. Quick note, PvD technology is the integration of the RingCube technology bough by Citrix last year.

What’s New in XenDesktop 5.6

XenDesktop 5.6 includes the following new features and enhancements:

Personal vDisk – This feature is a personalization solution for virtual desktops. Two new types of catalog allow you to preserve the assignment of users to desktops even when the disk is cleaned at restart; the same user is assigned the same desktop for later sessions. The new catalogs are pooled with personal vDisk (for pooled-static virtual desktops) that you manage with Desktop Studio and streamed with personal vDisk that you manage with Provisioning Services. In addition, a dedicated storage disk is created, before logon, so users can store their data on the desktop, including any applications they install. For background information on this feature, see About Personal vDisks.New commands have also been added to the XenDesktop Software Development Kit (SDK) to support this feature.
System Center support – XenDesktop now supports Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager and Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager.
Virtual Desktop Agent – A new version of the Virtual Desktop Agent fixes issues in the version included with XenDesktop 5.5.
Citrix Licensing – Citrix Licensing 11.10 lets you assign access to the License Administration Console using Active Directory Users and Groups.
Desktop Director – Desktop Director 2.1 supports personal vDisks and contains fixes since the last release. For more information, see the Desktop Director documentation.
Fixed issues – For information on the issues that have been fixed in this release, see CTX124164.

It looks great but how does Personal vDisk works ? I got it up and running very easily in my lab but now I would like to understand a bit more. I found a cool video on Citrix TV - XenDesktop 5.6 Personal vDisk feature overview :

How does PvD works ?

if you compare XenDesktop “classic” mode with PvD enable, you will notice very fast your virtual desktop model will change. You will move from assigned / pool desktops to a pooled desktop with PvD only model. Which means, one user will have one VM, the VM is assigned on first login.

PvD allows us to deliver a desktop where the Operating System / the Common Base Image / and the user’s Workspace will be separated to allow Operating System or Base Image maintenance without affecting the User Workspace (profile, user installed apps etc)

Architecture details :

What about Profile Management ?

PvD can be use as a simple profile management solution if your user are using only one desktop, in most of the case you won’t have to bring another piece of software to manage user profile. As PvD is moving on the P: drive user’s profiles and as the VM will always remain the same for every user, you might leave PvD acting as a simple user profile management solution.

If you chose to use Citrix Profile Management, it works as well, just as usual. You can combine profile management with PvD features. Citrix Profile Management will detect the presence of PvD and adjust its configuration automatically (UPM 4.1).

How does it look like ?

Here are some screenshots creating a new catalog Pooled with Personal vDisk (with MCS) in Desktop Studio 2.1:

Now creating Streamed VMs with Personal vDisk through XenDesktop Setup Wizard in PVS 6.1 console :

And what you can observe in Provisioning Services 6.1 console :

From Desktop Studio 2.1 console

In a next blog I will dive further in detail of PvD,under the hood, debugging, issues, use case etc..

Resources :
Citrix eDocs – release notes : [link]
Citrix eDocs – about Personal vDisk : [link]
Citrix TV – XenDesktop 5.6 Personal vDisk overview : [link]
Citrix eDocs – What’s new in User Profile Management 4.1 : [link]

CTP – Citrix Technology Professional

Stephane Thirion — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:41:53 +0000

Official announcement : Citrix CTP appointment (English)

Annonce Officielle : Nomination Citrix CTP (Français)

I feel very proud and I’m very honored being selected to receive a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP) award. I’ve always looked all the former CTPs thinking they were great and at the same time thinking I will maybe be among them one day. This is the result of hard work and a lot of shared knowledge. Everything became possible because my company (Activlan) is the greatest one to work in and allow me such freedom to do what I love in my work. Activlan always supported me in all the action and makes me travel all around the world to meet all of you and share information and knowledge.

Citrix gave me the opportunity to work several time with them at different level and I deeply appreciate that as well, Education, Consulting, Speaking engagement, I’m very proud to have this bond between our two companies and the trust which is going on.

Thanks to Laura Whalen, Serge Rajevic and all people who always push me to go forward in life.

Official announcement : http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/03/23/meet-our-newest-citrix-technology-professionals-ctps-3/

XenDesktop 5.6 – Citrix Personal vDisk failed to start

Stephane Thirion — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:02:55 +0000

I updated last week my lab at home :

XenServer 6.0 to XenServer 6.0.2
Provisioning Services 6.0 to Provisioning Services 6.1
and XenDesktop 5.5 to XenDesktop 5.6

Everything went well for XenDesktop, update was smooth and VDA update was successful and simple as well. I did the setup of Personal vDisk successfully and it worked without doing anything specific. Then I wanted to built a new Windows 7 golden image to take a fresh start and install the less application possible, this is when I began to have an issue with Personal vDisk :

Startup failed

Personal vDisk failed to start because the snapshot inventory has not been updated. Update the inventory then try again.

Status code: 15

Error code: 0×0

Alright, I had a freshWindows 7 VM updated to the last Microsoft patches with Acrobat Reader installed, PVS Target Device, Citrix Profile Management, EdgeSight and XenTools… Every time I was creating a new vDisk using Imaging Wizard, the operation was successful but all the VMs I tried to launch after had this issue… I got the log files to try to understand what was wrong by clicking on the collect logs button : I got a zip file containing PvDSvc.log.txt, PvDWMI.log.txt and SysVol-lvmSupervisor.log, I will just past an excerpt here :

PvDSvc.log.txt

[...]
[ERROR][03-18-2012 17:34:11]WSFileSystem.cpp        [2773] GetNamedSecurityInfo failed for \\?\C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP,Error2
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:16]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\inf\setupapi.app.log of size 174.339 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:18]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\inf\setupapi.dev.log of size 2.997 MB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:21]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\DefaultWsdlHelpGenerator.aspx of size 68.801 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:21]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config of size 25.435 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:21]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config.comments of size 41.868 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:21]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\machine.config.default of size 19.601 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:21]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\web.config of size 29.356 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:21]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\web.config.comments of size 56.394 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:21]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\web.config.default of size 29.327 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:21]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\web_hightrust.config of size 8.500 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:21]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\web_hightrust.config.default of size 12.249 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:21]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\web_lowtrust.config of size 7.1008 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:21]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\web_lowtrust.config.default of size 7.1008 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:21]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\web_mediumtrust.config of size 8.68 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:21]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\web_mediumtrust.config.default of size 11.54 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:21]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\web_minimaltrust.config of size 6.978 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:21]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\CONFIG\web_minimaltrust.config.default of size 6.978 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:22]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Config\machine.config of size 35.115 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:22]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Config\machine.config.comments of size 87.446 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:22]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Config\machine.config.default of size 35.115 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:22]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\Registration\R000000000001.clb of size 21.40 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:41]WSFileSystem.cpp        [2126] Compression Enabled on V:\Windows\System32\DRVSTORE
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:43]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\System32\Microsoft\Protect\S-1-5-18\1fc7d60d-e494-4187-907a-dd8400a01342 of size 468 Bytes got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:43]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\System32\Microsoft\Protect\S-1-5-18\fb0c4ef9-9ed2-478f-b1b0-b5ec3eb54a38 of size 468 Bytes got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:43]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\System32\Microsoft\Protect\S-1-5-18\Preferred of size 24 Bytes got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:43]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\System32\Microsoft\Protect\S-1-5-18\User\04ece708-132d-4bf0-a647-e3329269a012 of size 468 Bytes got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:43]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\System32\Microsoft\Protect\S-1-5-18\User\a0023eb6-1b09-4216-bfea-a0dace62be44 of size 468 Bytes got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:43]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\System32\Microsoft\Protect\S-1-5-18\User\a4989c32-bd96-4df1-b609-db2d3cb6b6d8 of size 468 Bytes got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:43]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\System32\Microsoft\Protect\S-1-5-18\User\Preferred of size 24 Bytes got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:45]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\System32\wbem\Repository\INDEX.BTR of size 3.936 MB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:45]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\System32\wbem\Repository\MAPPING1.MAP of size 48.740 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:45]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\System32\wbem\Repository\MAPPING2.MAP of size 48.736 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:45]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\System32\wbem\Repository\MAPPING3.MAP of size 48.736 KB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:34:46]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3011] File \Windows\System32\wbem\Repository\OBJECTS.DATA of size 14.96 MB got relocated to the guest volume
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:35:29]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3033] Number of files relocated 35, Total size of all files relocated 21.872 MB
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:35:29]ImageUpdateVDeskNativeOP.cpp[3055] END CREATE-VDESKNATIVE-FILESYSTEM, STATUS 0
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:35:29]ImageUpdateOP.cpp       [0081] RingCube::ImageUpdate::IUVDESKNATIVE_OP::BuildVDeskFileSystem took 86 secs
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:35:30]ImageUpdateOP.cpp       [0081] RingCube::ImageUpdate::IUVDESKNATIVE_OP::CreateVDeskFileSystemAndCatalogStageFinal took 86 secs
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:35:30]ImageUpdateOP.cpp       [0081] RingCube::ImageUpdate::IUVDESKNATIVE_OP::CreateVDeskFileSystemAndCatalog took 93 secs
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:35:31]VDeskNativeActivation.cpp[0650] Template VHD C:\ProgramData\Citrix\personal vDisk\UserData.VDESK.TEMPLATE successfully created
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:35:31]VDeskNativeSvcUtil.cpp  [1812] Service start type IvmVhd ==> 0
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:35:31]VDeskNativeSvcUtil.cpp  [1812] Service start type Ivm ==> 0
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:35:31]VDeskNativeSvcUtil.cpp  [1812] Service start type IvmBoot ==> 1
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:35:31]VDeskNativeSvcUtil.cpp  [1812] Service start type WorkstationAgent ==> 3
[WARN ][03-18-2012 17:37:30]VDeskNativeVDIConfig.cpp[0205] RegQueryValueEx failed size retrieval for Userinit, Error:2
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:37:30]VDeskNativeSvc.cpp      [1224] Exiting from vDesk Native service!!!
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:40:23]VDeskNativeSvcUtil.cpp  [1812] Service start type IvmVhd ==> 3
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:40:24]VDeskNativeSvcUtil.cpp  [1812] Service start type Ivm ==> 3
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:40:24]VDeskNativeSvcUtil.cpp  [1812] Service start type IvmBoot ==> 3
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:40:24]VDeskNativeSvcUtil.cpp  [1812] Service start type WorkstationAgent ==> 2
[WARN ][03-18-2012 17:42:46]VDeskNativeVDIConfig.cpp[0205] RegQueryValueEx failed size retrieval for Userinit, Error:2
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:42:46]VDeskNativeSvc.cpp      [1224] Exiting from vDesk Native service!!!
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:44:10]VDeskNativeSvcUtil.cpp  [1812] Service start type IvmVhd ==> 3
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:44:10]VDeskNativeSvcUtil.cpp  [1812] Service start type Ivm ==> 3
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:44:10]VDeskNativeSvcUtil.cpp  [1812] Service start type IvmBoot ==> 3
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:44:10]VDeskNativeSvcUtil.cpp  [1812] Service start type WorkstationAgent ==> 2
[INFO ][03-18-2012 20:11:50]VDeskNativeUtil.cpp     [1361] IVM Service start type 3
[WARN ][03-18-2012 20:11:50]VDeskNativeSvc.cpp      [0882] PvD is not enabled
[INFO ][03-18-2012 20:12:00]PvDWmiClient.cpp        [0130] Admin assigned drive letter : P

PvDWMI.log.txt

[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:45:18]VDeskNativeUtil.cpp     [1361] IVM Service start type 3
[INFO ][03-18-2012 17:45:18]VDeskNativeUtil.cpp     [1361] IVM Service start type 3
[WARN ][03-18-2012 17:45:49]WmiClass.cpp            [0047] Unknown interface.
[WARN ][03-18-2012 20:12:12]WmiClass.cpp            [0047] Unknown interface.
[WARN ][03-18-2012 20:12:12]WmiClass.cpp            [0047] Unknown interface.
[WARN ][03-18-2012 20:12:12]WmiClass.cpp            [0047] Unknown interface.
[WARN ][03-18-2012 20:12:12]WmiClass.cpp            [0047] Unknown interface.
[WARN ][03-18-2012 20:12:12]WmiClass.cpp            [0047] Unknown interface.
[WARN ][03-18-2012 20:12:12]WmiClass.cpp            [0047] Unknown interface.
[WARN ][03-18-2012 20:12:12]WmiClass.cpp            [0047] Unknown interface.
[WARN ][03-18-2012 20:12:12]WmiClass.cpp            [0047] Unknown interface.
[WARN ][03-18-2012 20:12:12]WmiClass.cpp            [0047] Unknown interface.
[INFO ][03-18-2012 20:12:13]VDeskNativeUtil.cpp     [1361] IVM Service start type 3
[INFO ][03-18-2012 20:12:13]VDeskNativeUtil.cpp     [1361] IVM Service start type 3
[WARN ][03-18-2012 20:13:22]WmiClass.cpp            [0047] Unknown interface.

SysVol-lvmSupervisor.log

20120318 09:35:03.524 00000001 1 07 0 0 00 0004 0008: IvmLog initialization complete
20120318 09:35:03.524 00000002 1 07 0 0 00 0004 0008: Ivm REL built at Fri Nov  4 00:36:44 2011. (Note that is different from last modified time)
20120318 09:35:03.524 00000003 1 07 0 0 00 0004 00E0: Timer manager started with 32 timers
20120318 09:35:03.524 00000004 1 05 0 0 00 0004 0008: Registry filtering initialized
20120318 09:35:03.524 00000005 1 02 0 0 00 0004 0008: Hooking SSDT start.
20120318 09:35:03.524 00000006 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function started, waiting for boot driver to start...
20120318 09:35:03.524 00000007 1 02 0 0 00 0004 0008: Hooking SSDT done, 0 intercepts installed.
20120318 09:35:03.524 00000008 1 23 0 0 00 0004 0008: IVM operation mode: NativeMode
20120318 09:35:03.524 00000009 1 23 0 0 00 0004 0008: IvmNativeStart: started the thread to wait for the VHD and start the session
20120318 09:35:03.540 0000000A 2 02 0 0 00 0004 0008: IvmStateChange: current driver state StateRunning, status 0x0
20120318 09:35:03.540 0000000B 2 02 0 0 00 0004 0008: DriverEntry: driver load successful, status 0x0
20120318 09:35:03.680 0000000C 1 02 1 0 00 0004 0034: PNP notification for volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000000100000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 09:35:03.727 0000000D 1 02 1 0 00 0004 0034: PNP notification for volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000006500000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 09:35:04.601 0000000E 1 03 1 0 00 0004 0008: attached to volume [\Ntfs][\Device\HarddiskVolume2] on C:
20120318 09:35:07.112 0000000F 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function now processing notifications...
20120318 09:35:07.112 00000010 1 23 0 0 00 0004 00EC: IvmpNativeSessionCreationFunction: IvmBoot got loaded and signaled, waiting for the volume to show up
20120318 09:35:07.112 00000011 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function dequeued volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000006500000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 09:35:07.112 00000012 1 07 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmLogSwitchToFile: relocating log to file \??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000006500000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}\IvmSupervisor.log, see you there!
20120318 09:35:07.112 00000013 1 07 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmLogSwitchToFile: after switching the log file...
20120318 09:35:07.112 00000014 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: moved log file to BOOT volume...
20120318 09:35:07.112 00000015 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function checking volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000006500000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 09:35:07.112 00000016 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:allocated all the strings
20120318 09:35:09.187 00000017 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:failed to open the volume guard file (C0000034), volume won't grow but we should try to start the session anyway.
20120318 09:35:09.187 00000018 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:couldn't open the recomposition guard file
20120318 09:35:09.187 00000019 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm failed with C0000034
20120318 09:35:09.187 0000001A 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function dequeued volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000000100000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 09:35:09.203 0000001B 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function checking volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000000100000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 09:35:09.203 0000001C 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:allocated all the strings
20120318 09:35:09.499 0000001D 1 03 1 0 00 0004 00E8: attached to volume [\Ntfs][\Device\HarddiskVolume1] on \\?\Volume{a56ceda3-6a8a-11e1-965c-806e6f6e6963}
20120318 09:35:09.499 0000001E 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:failed to open the volume guard file (C0000034), volume won't grow but we should try to start the session anyway.
20120318 09:35:09.499 0000001F 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:couldn't open the recomposition guard file
20120318 09:35:09.499 00000020 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm failed with C0000034
20120318 09:35:37.127 00000021 1 23 0 0 00 0004 00EC: IvmpNativeSessionCreationFunction: timed out waiting for the volume, check if we found a VHD at all
20120318 09:35:37.127 00000022 1 23 0 1 01 0004 00EC: IvmpNativeSessionCreationFunction: no vhd, signal that session creation was aborted
20120318 09:35:37.127 00000023 0 23 0 0 00 0004 00EC: IvmpNativeSessionCreationFunction: failed to find IVM volume in time (status:00000102)... abort session creation
20120318 09:35:37.127 00000024 0 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpVolumeProcessingWIFunction: IVM session was created or aborted... stop processing volumes
20120318 09:35:37.127 00000025 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpVolumeProcessingWIFunction: unregistering volume notification...
20120318 09:55:55.147 00000026 1 03 1 0 00 0004 0034: attached to volume [\Ntfs][\Device\IvmVhdDisk00000001] on V:
20120318 09:57:33.084 00000027 1 03 0 0 00 0004 002C: IvmFileSystemVolumeInstanceTeardownCallback: instance teardown for volume [\Device\IvmVhdDisk00000001], reason 8
20120318 09:57:33.084 00000028 1 03 0 0 00 0004 002C: detached from volume [\Device\IvmVhdDisk00000001]
20120318 10:00:58.478 00000001 1 07 0 0 00 0004 0008: IvmLog initialization complete
20120318 10:00:58.478 00000002 1 07 0 0 00 0004 0008: Ivm REL built at Fri Nov  4 00:36:44 2011. (Note that is different from last modified time)
20120318 10:00:58.478 00000003 1 07 0 0 00 0004 00E0: Timer manager started with 32 timers
20120318 10:00:58.478 00000004 1 05 0 0 00 0004 0008: Registry filtering initialized
20120318 10:00:58.478 00000005 1 02 0 0 00 0004 0008: Hooking SSDT start.
20120318 10:00:58.478 00000006 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function started, waiting for boot driver to start...
20120318 10:00:58.478 00000007 1 02 0 0 00 0004 0008: Hooking SSDT done, 0 intercepts installed.
20120318 10:00:58.478 00000008 1 23 0 0 00 0004 0008: IVM operation mode: NativeMode
20120318 10:00:58.478 00000009 1 23 0 0 00 0004 0008: IvmNativeStart: started the thread to wait for the VHD and start the session
20120318 10:00:58.478 0000000A 2 02 0 0 00 0004 0008: IvmStateChange: current driver state StateRunning, status 0x0
20120318 10:00:58.478 0000000B 2 02 0 0 00 0004 0008: DriverEntry: driver load successful, status 0x0
20120318 10:00:58.649 0000000C 1 02 1 0 00 0004 0034: PNP notification for volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000000100000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 10:00:58.680 0000000D 1 02 1 0 00 0004 0034: PNP notification for volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000006500000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 10:00:59.772 0000000E 1 03 1 0 00 0004 0008: attached to volume [\Ntfs][\Device\HarddiskVolume2] on C:
20120318 10:01:02.378 0000000F 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function now processing notifications...
20120318 10:01:02.378 00000010 1 23 0 0 00 0004 00EC: IvmpNativeSessionCreationFunction: IvmBoot got loaded and signaled, waiting for the volume to show up
20120318 10:01:02.378 00000011 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function dequeued volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000006500000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 10:01:02.378 00000012 1 07 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmLogSwitchToFile: relocating log to file \??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000006500000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}\IvmSupervisor.log, see you there!
20120318 10:01:02.378 00000013 1 07 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmLogSwitchToFile: after switching the log file...
20120318 10:01:02.378 00000014 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: moved log file to BOOT volume...
20120318 10:01:02.378 00000015 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function checking volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000006500000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 10:01:02.378 00000016 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:allocated all the strings
20120318 10:01:02.378 00000017 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:failed to open the volume guard file (C0000034), volume won't grow but we should try to start the session anyway.
20120318 10:01:02.378 00000018 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:couldn't open the recomposition guard file
20120318 10:01:02.378 00000019 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm failed with C0000034
20120318 10:01:02.378 0000001A 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function dequeued volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000000100000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 10:01:02.378 0000001B 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function checking volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000000100000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 10:01:02.378 0000001C 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:allocated all the strings
20120318 10:01:03.033 0000001D 1 03 1 0 00 0004 00E8: attached to volume [\Ntfs][\Device\HarddiskVolume1] on \\?\Volume{a56ceda3-6a8a-11e1-965c-806e6f6e6963}
20120318 10:01:03.033 0000001E 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:failed to open the volume guard file (C0000034), volume won't grow but we should try to start the session anyway.
20120318 10:01:03.033 0000001F 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:couldn't open the recomposition guard file
20120318 10:01:03.033 00000020 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm failed with C0000034
20120318 10:01:32.392 00000021 1 23 0 0 00 0004 00EC: IvmpNativeSessionCreationFunction: timed out waiting for the volume, check if we found a VHD at all
20120318 10:01:32.392 00000022 1 23 0 1 01 0004 00EC: IvmpNativeSessionCreationFunction: no vhd, signal that session creation was aborted
20120318 10:01:32.392 00000023 0 23 0 0 00 0004 00EC: IvmpNativeSessionCreationFunction: failed to find IVM volume in time (status:00000102)... abort session creation
20120318 10:01:32.392 00000024 0 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpVolumeProcessingWIFunction: IVM session was created or aborted... stop processing volumes
20120318 10:01:32.392 00000025 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpVolumeProcessingWIFunction: unregistering volume notification...
20120318 10:14:44.195 00000026 1 03 1 0 00 0004 0038: attached to volume [\Ntfs][\Device\IvmVhdDisk00000001] on V:
20120318 10:16:19.183 00000027 1 03 0 0 00 0004 0030: IvmFileSystemVolumeInstanceTeardownCallback: instance teardown for volume [\Device\IvmVhdDisk00000001], reason 8
20120318 10:16:19.183 00000028 1 03 0 0 00 0004 0030: detached from volume [\Device\IvmVhdDisk00000001]
20120318 10:28:44.540 00000001 1 07 0 0 00 0004 0008: IvmLog initialization complete
20120318 10:28:44.540 00000002 1 07 0 0 00 0004 0008: Ivm REL built at Fri Nov  4 00:36:44 2011. (Note that is different from last modified time)
20120318 10:28:44.540 00000003 1 07 0 0 00 0004 00E0: Timer manager started with 32 timers
20120318 10:28:44.540 00000004 1 05 0 0 00 0004 0008: Registry filtering initialized
20120318 10:28:44.540 00000005 1 02 0 0 00 0004 0008: Hooking SSDT start.
20120318 10:28:44.540 00000006 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function started, waiting for boot driver to start...
20120318 10:28:44.540 00000007 1 02 0 0 00 0004 0008: Hooking SSDT done, 0 intercepts installed.
20120318 10:28:44.540 00000008 1 23 0 0 00 0004 0008: IVM operation mode: NativeMode
20120318 10:28:44.540 00000009 1 23 0 0 00 0004 0008: IvmNativeStart: started the thread to wait for the VHD and start the session
20120318 10:28:44.540 0000000A 2 02 0 0 00 0004 0008: IvmStateChange: current driver state StateRunning, status 0x0
20120318 10:28:44.540 0000000B 2 02 0 0 00 0004 0008: DriverEntry: driver load successful, status 0x0
20120318 10:28:44.712 0000000C 1 02 1 0 00 0004 0034: PNP notification for volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000000100000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 10:28:44.758 0000000D 1 02 1 0 00 0004 0034: PNP notification for volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000006500000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 10:28:47.676 0000000E 1 03 1 0 00 0004 0008: attached to volume [\Ntfs][\Device\HarddiskVolume2] on C:
20120318 10:28:48.112 0000000F 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function now processing notifications...
20120318 10:28:48.112 00000010 1 23 0 0 00 0004 00EC: IvmpNativeSessionCreationFunction: IvmBoot got loaded and signaled, waiting for the volume to show up
20120318 10:28:48.112 00000011 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function dequeued volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000006500000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 10:28:48.112 00000012 1 07 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmLogSwitchToFile: relocating log to file \??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000006500000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}\IvmSupervisor.log, see you there!
20120318 10:28:48.112 00000013 1 07 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmLogSwitchToFile: after switching the log file...
20120318 10:28:48.112 00000014 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: moved log file to BOOT volume...
20120318 10:28:48.112 00000015 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function checking volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000006500000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 10:28:48.112 00000016 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:allocated all the strings
20120318 10:28:48.112 00000017 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:failed to open the volume guard file (C0000034), volume won't grow but we should try to start the session anyway.
20120318 10:28:48.112 00000018 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:couldn't open the recomposition guard file
20120318 10:28:48.112 00000019 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm failed with C0000034
20120318 10:28:48.112 0000001A 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function dequeued volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000000100000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 10:28:48.112 0000001B 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function checking volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000000100000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 10:28:48.112 0000001C 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:allocated all the strings
20120318 10:28:48.362 0000001D 1 03 1 0 00 0004 00E8: attached to volume [\Ntfs][\Device\HarddiskVolume1] on \\?\Volume{a56ceda3-6a8a-11e1-965c-806e6f6e6963}
20120318 10:28:48.362 0000001E 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:failed to open the volume guard file (C0000034), volume won't grow but we should try to start the session anyway.
20120318 10:28:48.362 0000001F 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:couldn't open the recomposition guard file
20120318 10:28:48.362 00000020 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm failed with C0000034
20120318 10:29:18.127 00000021 1 23 0 0 00 0004 00EC: IvmpNativeSessionCreationFunction: timed out waiting for the volume, check if we found a VHD at all
20120318 10:29:18.127 00000022 1 23 0 1 01 0004 00EC: IvmpNativeSessionCreationFunction: no vhd, signal that session creation was aborted
20120318 10:29:18.127 00000023 0 23 0 0 00 0004 00EC: IvmpNativeSessionCreationFunction: failed to find IVM volume in time (status:00000102)... abort session creation
20120318 10:29:18.127 00000024 0 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpVolumeProcessingWIFunction: IVM session was created or aborted... stop processing volumes
20120318 10:29:18.127 00000025 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpVolumeProcessingWIFunction: unregistering volume notification...
20120318 10:33:51.448 00000026 1 03 1 0 00 0004 003C: attached to volume [\Ntfs][\Device\IvmVhdDisk00000001] on V:
20120318 10:35:32.599 00000027 1 03 0 0 00 0004 0040: IvmFileSystemVolumeInstanceTeardownCallback: instance teardown for volume [\Device\IvmVhdDisk00000001], reason 8
20120318 10:35:32.599 00000028 1 03 0 0 00 0004 0040: detached from volume [\Device\IvmVhdDisk00000001]
20120318 10:40:43.400 00000001 1 07 0 0 00 0004 0008: IvmLog initialization complete
20120318 10:40:43.400 00000002 1 07 0 0 00 0004 0008: Ivm REL built at Fri Nov  4 00:36:44 2011. (Note that is different from last modified time)
20120318 10:40:43.400 00000003 1 07 0 0 00 0004 00E0: Timer manager started with 32 timers
20120318 10:40:43.400 00000004 1 05 0 0 00 0004 0008: Registry filtering initialized
20120318 10:40:43.400 00000005 1 02 0 0 00 0004 0008: Hooking SSDT start.
20120318 10:40:43.400 00000006 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function started, waiting for boot driver to start...
20120318 10:40:43.400 00000007 1 02 0 0 00 0004 0008: Hooking SSDT done, 0 intercepts installed.
20120318 10:40:43.400 00000008 1 23 0 0 00 0004 0008: IVM operation mode: NativeMode
20120318 10:40:43.400 00000009 1 23 0 0 00 0004 0008: IvmNativeStart: started the thread to wait for the VHD and start the session
20120318 10:40:43.400 0000000A 2 02 0 0 00 0004 0008: IvmStateChange: current driver state StateRunning, status 0x0
20120318 10:40:43.400 0000000B 2 02 0 0 00 0004 0008: DriverEntry: driver load successful, status 0x0
20120318 10:41:16.300 0000000C 1 02 1 0 00 0004 0040: PNP notification for volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000000100000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 10:41:16.331 0000000D 1 02 1 0 00 0004 0040: PNP notification for volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000006500000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 10:41:16.690 0000000E 1 03 1 0 00 0004 0008: attached to volume [\Ntfs][\Device\HarddiskVolume2] on C:
20120318 10:41:17.345 0000000F 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function now processing notifications...
20120318 10:41:17.345 00000010 1 23 0 0 00 0004 00EC: IvmpNativeSessionCreationFunction: IvmBoot got loaded and signaled, waiting for the volume to show up
20120318 10:41:17.345 00000011 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function dequeued volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000006500000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 10:41:17.345 00000012 1 07 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmLogSwitchToFile: relocating log to file \??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000006500000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}\IvmSupervisor.log, see you there!
20120318 10:41:17.345 00000013 1 07 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmLogSwitchToFile: after switching the log file...
20120318 10:41:17.345 00000014 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: moved log file to BOOT volume...
20120318 10:41:17.345 00000015 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function checking volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000006500000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 10:41:17.345 00000016 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:allocated all the strings
20120318 10:41:17.345 00000017 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:failed to open the volume guard file (C0000034), volume won't grow but we should try to start the session anyway.
20120318 10:41:17.345 00000018 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:couldn't open the recomposition guard file
20120318 10:41:17.345 00000019 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm failed with C0000034
20120318 10:41:17.345 0000001A 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function dequeued volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000000100000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 10:41:17.345 0000001B 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function checking volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000000100000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 10:41:17.361 0000001C 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:allocated all the strings
20120318 10:41:17.564 0000001D 1 03 1 0 00 0004 00E8: attached to volume [\Ntfs][\Device\HarddiskVolume1] on \\?\Volume{a56ceda3-6a8a-11e1-965c-806e6f6e6963}
20120318 10:41:17.564 0000001E 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:failed to open the volume guard file (C0000034), volume won't grow but we should try to start the session anyway.
20120318 10:41:17.564 0000001F 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:couldn't open the recomposition guard file
20120318 10:41:17.564 00000020 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm failed with C0000034
20120318 10:41:47.360 00000021 1 23 0 0 00 0004 00EC: IvmpNativeSessionCreationFunction: timed out waiting for the volume, check if we found a VHD at all
20120318 10:41:47.360 00000022 1 23 0 1 01 0004 00EC: IvmpNativeSessionCreationFunction: no vhd, signal that session creation was aborted
20120318 10:41:47.360 00000023 0 23 0 0 00 0004 00EC: IvmpNativeSessionCreationFunction: failed to find IVM volume in time (status:00000102)... abort session creation
20120318 10:41:47.360 00000024 0 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpVolumeProcessingWIFunction: IVM session was created or aborted... stop processing volumes
20120318 10:41:47.360 00000025 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpVolumeProcessingWIFunction: unregistering volume notification...
20120318 17:39:27.556 00000001 1 07 0 0 00 0004 0008: IvmLog initialization complete
20120318 17:39:27.556 00000002 1 07 0 0 00 0004 0008: Ivm REL built at Fri Nov  4 00:36:44 2011. (Note that is different from last modified time)
20120318 17:39:27.556 00000003 1 07 0 0 00 0004 00E0: Timer manager started with 32 timers
20120318 17:39:27.556 00000004 1 05 0 0 00 0004 0008: Registry filtering initialized
20120318 17:39:27.556 00000005 1 02 0 0 00 0004 0008: Hooking SSDT start.
20120318 17:39:27.556 00000006 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function started, waiting for boot driver to start...
20120318 17:39:27.556 00000007 1 02 0 0 00 0004 0008: Hooking SSDT done, 0 intercepts installed.
20120318 17:39:27.571 00000008 1 23 0 0 00 0004 0008: IVM operation mode: NativeMode
20120318 17:39:27.571 00000009 1 23 0 0 00 0004 0008: IvmNativeStart: started the thread to wait for the VHD and start the session
20120318 17:39:27.571 0000000A 2 02 0 0 00 0004 0008: IvmStateChange: current driver state StateRunning, status 0x0
20120318 17:39:27.571 0000000B 2 02 0 0 00 0004 0008: DriverEntry: driver load successful, status 0x0
20120318 17:39:27.743 0000000C 1 02 1 0 00 0004 0040: PNP notification for volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000000100000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 17:39:27.774 0000000D 1 02 1 0 00 0004 0040: PNP notification for volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000006500000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 17:39:28.133 0000000E 1 03 1 0 00 0004 0008: attached to volume [\Ntfs][\Device\HarddiskVolume2] on C:
20120318 17:39:28.866 0000000F 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function now processing notifications...
20120318 17:39:28.866 00000010 1 23 0 0 00 0004 00EC: IvmpNativeSessionCreationFunction: IvmBoot got loaded and signaled, waiting for the volume to show up
20120318 17:39:28.866 00000011 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function dequeued volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000006500000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 17:39:28.866 00000012 1 07 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmLogSwitchToFile: relocating log to file \??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000006500000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}\IvmSupervisor.log, see you there!
20120318 17:39:28.866 00000013 1 07 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmLogSwitchToFile: after switching the log file...
20120318 17:39:28.866 00000014 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: moved log file to BOOT volume...
20120318 17:39:28.866 00000015 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function checking volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000006500000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 17:39:28.866 00000016 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:allocated all the strings
20120318 17:39:28.866 00000017 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:failed to open the volume guard file (C0000034), volume won't grow but we should try to start the session anyway.
20120318 17:39:28.866 00000018 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:couldn't open the recomposition guard file
20120318 17:39:28.866 00000019 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm failed with C0000034
20120318 17:39:28.866 0000001A 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function dequeued volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000000100000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 17:39:28.866 0000001B 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: volume processing WI function checking volume [\??\STORAGE#Volume#{837b9062-7085-11e1-9215-806e6f6e6963}#0000000000100000#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}]
20120318 17:39:28.866 0000001C 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:allocated all the strings
20120318 17:39:29.084 0000001D 1 03 1 0 00 0004 00E8: attached to volume [\Ntfs][\Device\HarddiskVolume1] on \\?\Volume{a56ceda3-6a8a-11e1-965c-806e6f6e6963}
20120318 17:39:29.084 0000001E 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:failed to open the volume guard file (C0000034), volume won't grow but we should try to start the session anyway.
20120318 17:39:29.084 0000001F 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm:couldn't open the recomposition guard file
20120318 17:39:29.084 00000020 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpCheckAndStartIvm failed with C0000034
20120318 17:39:58.880 00000021 1 23 0 0 00 0004 00EC: IvmpNativeSessionCreationFunction: timed out waiting for the volume, check if we found a VHD at all
20120318 17:39:58.880 00000022 1 23 0 1 01 0004 00EC: IvmpNativeSessionCreationFunction: no vhd, signal that session creation was aborted
20120318 17:39:58.880 00000023 0 23 0 0 00 0004 00EC: IvmpNativeSessionCreationFunction: failed to find IVM volume in time (status:00000102)... abort session creation
20120318 17:39:58.880 00000024 0 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpVolumeProcessingWIFunction: IVM session was created or aborted... stop processing volumes
20120318 17:39:58.880 00000025 1 02 0 0 00 0004 00E8: IvmBootpVolumeProcessingWIFunction: unregistering volume notification...

Clearly with the SysVol-lvmSupervisor.log file, something was wrong… It took me some time to figure out what could be wrong. I just noticed every time I wanted to use Imaging Wizard, when the VM needed to reboot to load the vDisk and boot, before restarting the Personal vDisk inventory manager was launch and requested to be updated… So I did the update but at every reboot the same pop-up came again and again…

I went to read the “manual” :

To update master images that use personal vDisks

You enable the personal vDisk feature for use with a master image when you install the Virtual Desktop Agent. During the installation procedure and after any update to the image after installation, it is important that the disk’s inventory is refreshed and a new snapshot is created. This procedure describes the required steps.

Because administrators, not users, manage master images, if you install an application that places binary files in the administrator’s user profile, the application is not available to users of shared virtual desktops (including those based on pooled catalogs and pooled with personal vDisk catalogs). Users must install such applications themselves.

It is best practice to take a snapshot of the image after each step in this procedure.

Update the master image by installing any applications or operating system updates, and performing any system configuration on the machine.For master images based on Windows XP that you plan to deploy with personal vDisks, check that no dialog boxes are open (for example, messages confirming software installations or prompts to use unsigned drivers). Open dialog boxes on master images in this environment prevent the Virtual Desktop Agent from registering with the controller. You can prevent prompts for unsigned drivers using the Control Panel. For example, on Windows XP click System > Hardware > Driver Signing, and select the option to ignore warnings.

Shut down the machine. For Windows 7 machines, click Cancel when Citrix personal vDisk blocks the shutdown.

In the Citrix personal vDisk dialog box, click Update Inventory. This step may take several minutes to complete.
Important: If you interrupt the following shutdown (even to make a minor update to the image), the personal vDisk’s inventory no longer matches the master image. This causes the personal vDisk feature to stop working. If you interrupt the shutdown, you must restart the machine, shut it down, and when prompted click Update Inventory again.

When the inventory operation shuts down the machine, take a snapshot of the master image.

In fact what I didn’t read on the Citrix eDoc are the step to create the golden image and how to use Personal vDisk Inventory Update tool :

Build you Microsoft Windows golden image.
Install apps and everything you need.
Use Imaging Wizard to export your VMs on a vDisk to a PVS store.
(This is what I didn’t read in the manual) Switch the boot of the VM you used (in PVS) to boot from vDisk instead of Hard Drive (Keep the vDisk in private mode)
Boot the VM and then run the Personal vDisk Inventory Update (just Shutdown the VM and click Cancel when Citrix personal vDisk blocks the shutdown.
Shutdown the VM.
Change the vDisk mode to standard and create new VMs through the XenDesktop Wizard as follow :

And boot up you new VMs, everything should work like a charm with Personal vDisk enable

To sum up this blog, you need to boot your vDisk at least one time in private mode to run the Personal vDisk Inventory Update before changing the vDisk mode to standard and boot all your VMs.

Resources :
About Personal vDisk, Citrix eDocs : [link]
XenDesktop 5.6 Citrix eDocs : [link]

PVS 6.1 Unable to initialize the network stack socket interface

Stephane Thirion — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:29:11 +0000

My XenServer lab has been updated / upgraded, XenDesktop is now 5.6, XenServer 6.0.2 and Provisioning Services is 6.1 now. I had one issue with this last one, I wasn’t able to create a new golden image for my brand new XenDesktop 5.6 setup…

I was able to create the new VHD through the PVS Wizard but once the VM rebooted the connection to the VHD wasn’t initialized… I knew it was a network issue but I had to remember a very old issue I had with PVS 4 or early 5…

First you need to uninstall XenTools and the PVS Target Device agent. Reboot and install XenTools.

After you have installed the XenTools and rebooted your Windows VM you need to do the following:

Type in a command prompt

Code block

set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1

Then type Start DEVMGMT.MSC, click in the View menu, and then chose Show Hidden Devices. Expand the Network Adapters tree and right-click the dimmed network adapter, to uninstall it

PHD Virtual Backup for XenServer

Stephane Thirion — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:49:14 +0000

I’ve been contacted by this software vendor to try out their product and make a review, I’ve been interested because I’m always looking for new software, tools to bring to our customer’s offer and complete the option available to backup virtual infrastructures. I know PHD Virtual systems company and what they do but I never had a chance and time to check out their stuff.

In an upcoming blog I will try their Citrix XenDesktop monitoring solution and check what this product can bring to a XenDesktop infrastructure.

For this backup software I won’t be able to go very deep and test everything I would like because my lab is not that big and I don’t have access right now to a biggest environment but as soon as it’s possible I will deep dive into this backup solution. Few month ago I wrote a blog about backing up your VMs using OpenFiler and I will do the same kind of blog to check if using PHD Virtual Backup for Citrix XenServer is a good solution if you have XenServer platinum licenses or if you don’t.

FIrst let’s check what you got with different XenServer editions :

You can click on the image to make it bigger (in fact you can click on any pic on www.archy.net to make it bigger ) and as you can see, the “Automated VM protection and recovery” is now available from the Enterprise edition (needed to be platinum with XenServer 5.6) And Citrix mention that bellow this edition frame : [1] Automated VM protection and recovery is only available for the Advanced and Enterprise editions in the 6.0 release and later.

You can check the XenServer edition page at Citrix website here : link

What is Automated VM Protection and Recovery ?

Utilizing an easy set-up wizard, administrators can create snapshot and archival policies. Regularly scheduled snapshots help to protect against data loss in case of a VM failure. The policies established are based on snapshot type, frequency, amount of historical data that is retained, and an archive location. Recovering a VM is completed by simply choosing the last good known archive.

This is very easy to use and does it’s job integrated in XenCenter administration console. I use this feature to backup all my VMs on my lab but I must admit this is a very basic solution for a basic need and it takes a lot of time.

XenServer’s VM Protection and Recovery (VMPR) feature provides a simple backup and restore utility for your critical service VMs. Regular scheduled snapshots are taken automatically and can be used to restore VMs in case of disaster. Scheduled snapshots can also be automatically archived to a remote CIFS or NFS share, providing an additional level of security.

VM Protection and Recovery works by having pool-wide VM protection policies that define snapshot schedules for selected VMs in the pool. When a policy is enabled, snapshots are taken of the specified VMs at the scheduled time each hour, day or week, and, if configured, the snapshots can also be archived automatically. Several policies may be enabled in a pool, covering different VMs and with different schedules.

Of course there is no compression, every time this is a full snapshot which is copied but the option exist and it can be very helpful.

Now the core of this blog to “compete” with the built-in feature included in XenServer, PHD Virtual Backup for XenServer.

How does it work ?

I won’t invent anything, everything is well explain in their User guide : link I will just extract the essential :

When a backup is run, the PHD VBA (PHD Virtual Backup Appliance) first reads the target VM metadata and creates a snapshot.

Next, the virtual disks created with the snapshot are attached to the PHD VBA as new virtual disks and the snapshot is removed.

The data is then deduplicated, verified, and compressed and sent to the defined backup storage location.

Finally, the virtual disks are detached from the PHD VBA and removed.

The PHD VBA is cool I mean I don’t know anything in backup software, I left it behind a long time ago with ArcServe 6.5 with tape DAT / LTO etc… Now today we have customer that want to virtualize everything but almost every time think at the end (often too late) that they might need a backup solution for their virtual environment because all their virtual stuff sits on physical servers and fire can still burn everything to the ground ! And water can still be very wet !

Let’s go through the installation of PHD Virtual Backup for XenServer.

Every time I write or say “Let’s go” Dora the Explorer picture popup in my mind because my daughter like her a lot

PHD Virtual give in the file you can download from their website a XenServer appliance. Which means there is zero installation to do. Just import the PHD Virtual Backup appliance to your XenServer host and start it. I really like it, this is simple, it’s up an running in less than 1 minute, it needs to be setup still but you don’t have to worry about database or some other prerequisite to have your backup solution online.

The XenServer Virtual Appliance (xva) file size to import is 1.66GB, it takes 1 vCpu and 1Gb of memory.

Once this appliance is started, you just need to configure it and again, my geek (dark) side always take over and make me do things and clicking everywhere before reading the F manual (RTFM philosophy) but everything went well because that was very simple to set everything up. My ArcServe nightmares faded away instantly !

The PHD VBA is running and if you open your XenCenter to check the console you’ll see that :

There is red, I don’t like it but it means it’s not configure yet. So I checked the IP address of the new appliance and went to browse with my favorite internet browser on the PHD VBA IP address on the 443 port (https). You can download and install the “client” to connect this appliance and begin the setup.

https://appliance_ip

This is a Windows client (msi file) and once installed the configuration begin, let’s go (Dora the Explorer again) though the configuration:

XenServer IP adress and credentials to enter

The console is opening and two options appears in red and need to be configured

By just following the tab, one by one let's configure everything

The backup storage tab is where you chose you remote backup location (NFS, CIFS or attached virtual disk)

In the network tab, you can specify network settings for the appliance

The email tab give you the possibility to send email notification on 3 basis, error, all or critical using smtp

Retention tab, you can plan and chose the retention you want to use for you VM backup

Replication tab, i will cover this feature in a next blog

Use the Connectors tab to enable the Backup Data Connector (BDC) share, which allows you to export backups directly from the PHD VBA.

Support tab to enable disable debuging and having verison number used for PHD Virtual Backup products

And that’s it My PHD Virtual Backup for XenServer appliance is ready to backup. BAck to the dashboard everything looks neat :

New job creation to backup my essential VMs :

The backup job is done and schedule.

While running you can watch a detail of the running job thread by thread and some interesting numbers like deduple ration in real time.

Here is an example of an email notification generated by PHD Virtual Backup for XenServer :

Code block

PHD Virtual Backup for Citrix XenServer (5.3.1.10366)
 
VBA Name: 'PHDVBA'
Job Name: 'Backup Job Name'
 
Job Summary:
 
Started: Fri Jan 20 10:49:43 2012
Ended: Fri Jan 20 16:50:04 2012
Total VMs: 7
Total Disks: 8
 
Successful (no warnings, no errors):
1) VM: 'SUOMICAG01'
2) VM: 'SUOMIDC01'
3) VM: 'WIN2008R2'
4) VM: 'Win7_XD5.5_Template'
5) VM: 'WinVista_XD5.5_Template'
6) VM: 'WinXP_XD5.5_Template'
7) VM: 'XenApp6.5_Template'
 
Successful (with warnings): None
 
Failed: None
 
Cancelled: None
 
Stopped: None
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
Options:
 
Verify option: None
Backup type: Now
Quiesce: No
Backup powered off VMs: Yes
Ignore virtual machine skips: Yes
Archive backups: No
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
Job Details:
 
Warnings: None
Errors: None
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
Virtual Machine Details:
 
1) VM 'SUOMICAG01'; Result: Completed Successfully
 
Disk: '1'; Size: 2 GB
Disk: '0'; Size: 10 GB
 
Warnings: None
Errors: None
 
----------
 
2) VM 'SUOMIDC01'; Result: Completed Successfully
 
Disk: 'SUOMIDC01 0'; Size: 179 GB
 
Warnings: None
Errors: None
 
----------
 
3) VM 'WIN2008R2'; Result: Completed Successfully
 
Disk: 'WIN2008R2 0'; Size: 24 GB
 
Warnings: None
Errors: None
 
----------
 
4) VM 'Win7_XD5.5_Template'; Result: Completed Successfully
 
Disk: 'SUOMIWRK01 D'; Size: 8 GB
 
Warnings: None
Errors: None
 
----------
 
5) VM 'WinVista_XD5.5_Template'; Result: Completed Successfully
 
Disk: 'PERSONA'; Size: 10 GB
 
Warnings: None
Errors: None
 
----------
 
6) VM 'WinXP_XD5.5_Template'; Result: Completed Successfully
 
Disk: 'PERSONA'; Size: 10 GB
 
Warnings: None
Errors: None
 
----------
 
7) VM 'XenApp6.5_Template'; Result: Completed Successfully
 
Disk: 'PERSONA'; Size: 12 GB
 
Warnings: None
Errors: None
 
----------

I did a small test to compare backup time for 220Gb of VM to my Nas and compare time XenServer with the build in feature VMPR took and compare it with PHDVirtual Backup for XenServer.

The result is obvious, VMPR XS feature take a snapshot and copy the full snapshot to the NAS and XS is doing it everytime, PHD Virtual Backup for XenServer is compressing and sending small data block to the NAS and just backing up the differential for the 2nd backup. Only the first complete backup took long time, then the backup time is divided per 3. Those are lab at home result but it show the difference between a build-in feature and a real backup solution, you can easily imagine the impact long and full backup can have in a production environment.

I think this is a good backup solution for SMB and Large company, very easy to setup and maintain, you don’t need to be ArcServe all version certified to understand how this software works and performance are ahead of the one deliver by the build in feature of XenServer. For the large company I still need to read about high availability etc but I won’t blog about it since it’s a bit out of my vPlayground.

If you don’t have time to test PHD Virtual Backup for XenServer, I hope this blog gave you a good insight and encourages you to check further about this solution.

Resources:

PHD Virtual Backup 5.3 for XenServer product page : link

Citrix XenServer editions : link

XenServer Automated VM Protection and Recovery doc : link

PHD Virtual Backup 5.3 User Guide : link

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