Managing Target Devices. A device, such as desktop computer or server, that boots and gets software from a vDisk on the network, is considered a target device. A device that is used to create the vDisk image is a considered a Master Target device. The lifecycle of a target device includes: Preparing a Master target device used for creating a vDisk imagea target device that will boot from a vDisk imageAdding target devices to a collection in the farmfrom the Consoleusing Auto-AddimportingAssigning the target device typeMaintaining target devices in the farm After a target device is created, the device must be configured to boot from the network, the device itself must be configured to allow it to boot from the network, a vDisk must be assigned to the device, and a bootstrap file must be configured to provide the information necessary for that device to boot from the assigned vDisk.
There are several types of target devices within a farm. To view target device related tasks, refer to Target Device Tasks. Using the Streamed VM Setup Wizard. The Provisioning Services Streamed VM Setup Wizard assists in deploying a Provisioning Services streamed vDisk to a number of cloned virtual machines (VMs). Use the wizard to: Create VMs on a supported hosted hypervisor from an existing template: XenServer Hyper-V via SCVMM ESX via V-Center Create Provisioning Services target devices within a Collection Assign a vDisk image that is in Standard Image mode to the VMs This wizard creates VMs, associates Provisioning Services target devices to those VMs, and assigns a shared vDisk to them.
The wizard is run directly from a Provisioning Services Console. Right-click on the Site icon in the Console tree panel, then select the Streamed VM Setup Wizard... menu option. Assigning vDisks to Target Devices. A vDisk can be assigned to a single target device or to all devices within a target device collection. If a target device has more than one vDisk assigned to it, a list of vdisks displays at boot time allowing the user to select the appropriate vDisk to boot.
If one or more versions exist for a vDisk, the version target devices use in Production is either the highest numbered production version or an override version. For details refer to 'Accessing a vDisk Version' in the Administrator's Guide. For Maintenance and Test devices, the State of any non-production versions are labeled.
A vDisk cannot be assigned to a target device using drag-and-drop if that target device was assigned a personal vDisks using the XenDesktop Wizard. A message dialog displays if a vDisk is dragged and dropped onto a collection that contains one or more target devices that use personal vDisks. Assigning vDisks to a target device. SQL database location, in the Citrix XenApp / Presentation Server forum on BrianMadden.com. Dan Murray replied on Mon, Dec 7 2009 2:42 PM Yes, you can move the database (once you find out where it is). There is no need to rebuild. I've moved our database two or three times over the last three years and it's never been a problem. As for finding it, try running the following VBS script on one of your farm servers: Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002 strComputer = ".
" Set objReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}! ' Get the Farm name and DataSourceName environment variable for this server. strKeyPath = "Software\Citrix\IMA"strEntryName = "Neighborhood"objReg.GetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strFarmNamestrEntryName = "DataSourceName"objReg.GetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,strKeyPath,strEntryName,strDataSourceName ' Display the current Farm name and DataSourceName WScript.Echo "Current Farm: "& strFarmNameWScript.Echo "Current DataSourceName: "& strDataSourceName Dan Why is it called "Common Sense"? Error: You cannot access this session because no licenses are available - XenDesktop. CitrixPorts_by_Port_1103.pdf. Q. What's the difference between thick-provisioned and thin-provisioned disks in ESX 4.0? | Virtualization content from Windows IT Pro.
A. Versions of ESX prior to 4.0 were only capable of creating thick-provisioned disks. Disks in this format are created with the entire size of the disk pre-allocated on physical storage at the time the disk is created. This pre-allocation means that creating a 100GB virtual disk actually consumes 100GB of physical disk space on your drives. Related: Q. How can I convert a thin-provisioned disk to thick, or a thick-provisioned disk to thin, in ESX 4.0?
Allocating physical space to virtual disks can be a resource intensive operation. The internal process that carves out disk space on your physical disk drives could have an impact on the performance of other virtual machines (VMs). Compare this behavior to thin-provisioned disks. There are two downsides to thin provisioning. Today’s improvements to disks, SANs, and disk provisioning have reduced the performance impact of thin provisioning. Learn more: Q. Citrix XenDesktop 5 Quick Deploy. Citrix XenDesktop 5 Tutorial. Leader in mobility, virtualization, networking and cloud services - Citrix - Citrix. XD%20-%20Hyper-V%20PoC%20Guide%20for%20XenDesktop%205%205_1320.pdf. Q and A on Implementing XenApp and XenDesktop 7.5. Hi all, I recently delivered several webinars on implementing XenApp and XenDesktop 7.5. If you were unable to attend, the webinars have been recorded and posted to CitrixTV: Jump Start your XenApp 7.5 Deployment - Jump Start your XenDesktop 7.5 Deployment - Throughout these webinars I received some great questions and wanted to thank all of you out in the Citrix Community for submitting them.
As promised, I have compiled a list of the top questions and will present the questions along with answers here in this blog. So in no particular order, here goes… 1. Yes. 2. Published applications have the option to limit visibility where you can define specific users and/or groups at the application level for access as opposed to just using the Delivery Group assignment. 3. Citrix is currently determining how to best integrate the Framehawk technology into existing Citrix solutions. 4.
Yes this is possible. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.