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Apple, Citrix, E2E - PubForum, Events, Experience, Geek Speak, Linux, Microsoft, VMware
This blog is a follow up to the discussion we had in Vienna during the Geek Speak session at E2E event. I had to leave to catch my flight back to France but this discussion was very interesting and I though about it during all my travel time… I’m still on it writing this blog...
ArchY.net Site, Cacti, Experience, Linux
I needed to monitor my Lab at home and check what I could do with Cacti to monitor Citrix XenServer, XenApp, XenDesktop, PVS, SQL etc… I chose to use a all in one distrib at first, CactiEZ () but I ran out of possibilities very fast and CactiEZ is still based on a CentOS 4...
Citrix, Experience, Linux, XenServer
Today I needed to enable SNMP on my XenServer lab at home, I was looking for an efficient way to monitor my XenServer. I found a Linux distribution very handy for a Cacti box, EZCacti, you can download it here : So to enable SNMP on XenServer 6, you need to follow the following guide....
Apple, Citrix, Linux, Microsoft, Receiver, Thin Clients, VMware
VDI is overrated! This is what I thought during several sessions at Citrix Synergy event last week in San Francisco. Of course the desktop, Microsoft Windows most of the time, is very important for companies but I think the battle around VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) takes place at the marketing level… Addressing desktop virtualization is...
Citrix, Linux, Microsoft, OpenFiler, XenServer
The goal of the following blog is to have a cheap backup system for my XenServer @ Home. Remember snapshots are not backup and it’s not recommended to backup you VMs the way I will describe it in a production environment. You can find a Citrix KB to add local storage here : The...
ArchY.net Site, Citrix, Linux, XenServer
WP-XenServerStats – WordPress Plugin for XenServer 1/2 WP-XenServerStats – WordPress Plugin for XenServer 2/2 In the first part of this blog, I made a list about what I wanted to do, how to get the data and how to transport it from my XenServer (home) to my Web Host (Datacenter). Now I’ll explain how I...
Citrix, Linux, XenServer
WP-XenServerStats – WordPress Plugin for XenServer 1/2 WP-XenServerStats – WordPress Plugin for XenServer 2/2 I got this idea when I saw Nick (Show And Tell : First vSphere Plugin for WordPress!) doing something I wanted to do for Citrix XenServer. Then before trying to do myself (I’m a very bad dev….) I’ve try to find...
Citrix, Linux, XenServer
The issue I describe in this blog are related to my XenServer, my lab at home, be very careful with the modification I explain if you plan to make this change in your own environment… As always, do it on a test environment before please ! Since last week and my XenServer @ home crash,...
