Stephane Thirion

vSphere

Citrix DaaS ProvisioningTaskError

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 they couldn't create a new one. The operation was failing with this popup in Studio After trying again myself I

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 need to be able to link an Active Directory computer account to a vm with XenApp / XenDesktop delivery group has

Cloudify my lab with Windows Azure

As I got an unlimited access to Windows Azure I wanted to check out how I could extend my lab into it and use it to store VMs workload (at first). Here what you need : * Citrix NetScaler VPX (tested with NS10.1: Build 122.17.nc & NS10.1: Build 123.

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 bit further in the automation process, I needed and wanted to know how to automate Hosting Configuration by Adding Connection

Error while editing VM settings in vSphere

Today I got an annoying issue when I was trying to edit settings from a Virtual Machine. It happens after I converted a template to a VM to make to change but every time I tried to edit the VM I got this error message : Error:The server fault ‘SystemError’

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 weird issue, I didn’t change anything, I just didn’t understood why suddenly VMs stopped to be available, in

VDI Project - Hypervisor war (part.3)

VDI Project – Not only a XenDesktop project (part.1) VDI Project – The framework (part.2) VDI Project – Hypervisor war (part.3) VDI Project – Desktops and applications delivery (part.4) VDI Project – User Environment Manager (part.5) Cool title right ? If you click on it then this title was just perfect