Ansible Automating VMware VM Deployment with Ansible: Guide to Static IP Configuration - request Deploying multiple VMs with consistent configuration shouldn't require hours of manual clicking through vCenter. With Ansible's vmware_guest module, you can automate the entire process from VM creation to static IP assignment. Stephane Thirion 4 Jul 2025 · 3 min read
AI From virtual desktops to virtual minds: My AI focus explained Over the last two years, I’ve made a conscious decision to shift a significant part of my focus toward Artificial Intelligence. This wasn’t a trend-chasing move. It was Stephane Thirion 10 Jun 2025 · 2 min read
Homelab Homelab serie -- The software 2/3 Docker Swarm & Containers Stephane Thirion 17 Mar 2025 · 4 min read
Homelab Homelab serie -- The software 1/3 Dropping everything in a single blog post is difficult so I chose to split it in three parts Stephane Thirion 17 Mar 2025 · 4 min read
Ansible Ansible Playbook for Creating Multiple VMs with Sequential Naming in vCenter In this blog post, we will explore an Ansible playbook that creates multiple virtual machines (VMs) in a vCenter environment. Stephane Thirion 11 Apr 2024 · 5 min read
Community The Paradox of Citrix and VMware: Killing Their Own Communities? Recent actions by both Citrix and VMware have raised concerns among users and experts alike, leading some to question whether these tech giants are intentionally killing off their own communities.... Stephane Thirion 13 Feb 2024 · 2 min read
daas Citrix DaaS ProvisioningTaskError One of my customer did a vSphere migration, hypervisor and storage to use vSan. After this migration they reported me they were unable to update a Machine Catalog (MCS) and Stephane Thirion 1 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
Citrix Create vmware service account for MCS Citrix Creating this service account to allow certain action to be performed by the DaaS or Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops infrastructure can take a long time if you can’t Stephane Thirion 28 Feb 2023 · 2 min read
failed to get multipathd errors in /var/log/syslog On my linux Virtual Machines when I get into log checking i’ve been annoyed by few lines that seemed to be the same issue on every Virtual Machine hosted Stephane Thirion 2 Aug 2022 · 2 min read
Athens E2EVC Athens, Greece AD 2018 Another E2E event in my pocket and this one in Athens was a pretty good one. I learned many things as well during the session than while speaking and sharing Stephane Thirion 5 Nov 2018 · 3 min read
best practices VMware VMtools installation with XenDesktop / XenApp 7.x VDAs It’s time to update this “popular” blog post with latest version from VMware and Citrix products. Many people still install VMware tools 10.0.6 as is and don’ Stephane Thirion 29 Nov 2016 · 2 min read
Azure Microsoft Office (Exchange) 365 - RDSH Myth For many years now, the everything in cloud is happening more and more, among all the services / software available as a services, most of the vendor are promising a cheaper Stephane Thirion 28 Jun 2016 · 5 min read
Automation Expand virtual machines hard disk - automation Sometimes, at some customers’s place, with an infrastructure already in place (XenApp with PVS or XenDesktop VDI pooled with PVS) the D: drive is too small. The drive where Stephane Thirion 30 Mar 2016 · 4 min read
Automation XenDesktop XenApp 7.x - vmware / ad / delivery group notes and descriptions sync Several times i had the need to synchronise Virtual Machine notes (vmware) with Active Directory Computer description. As in big environment, different team are managing each of these components, the Stephane Thirion 30 Mar 2016 · 2 min read
Automate Citrix XenDesktop 7 – Create Persistent Hypervisor Connection and Hosting Unit, Unattended I blogged about how to automate Citrix XenDesktop 7 deployment and database creation, and how to join and existing XenDesktop 7 site unattended, but now to continue and go a Stephane Thirion 8 Jul 2013 · 4 min read
best practices vmware vmtools installation with XenDesktop VDA December 2016 – Blog post updated : This is the personalized installation I do when I deploy vmtools on the VMs with VDA to install on it. Don’t forget to install Stephane Thirion 14 Aug 2012 · 2 min read
Citrix E2E Conference, you should go ! Update : You can download my slide deck to have all the information you wanted to have (URLs, Registry keys etc…) E2E What’s new in XenApp 6.5 – Impact in Stephane Thirion 19 Nov 2011 · 1 min read
CTX117248 XenDesktop 4 : The delivery controller cannot find any available virtual desktops Error 1301 In a new mission, I had to learn a new environment based on Citrix XenDesktop 4, Provisioning Services 5.6 and vmware vSphere 4.1. This week, I had a Stephane Thirion 17 Jul 2011 · 9 min read
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