Ferry fstelte

Intro Currently I am at a customer that uses RES Workspace Manager on Windows Server 2008R2 XenApp servers. Because lots of users logon to your XenApp servers, one can consume all the resources on the server. Thankfully Microsoft and Citrix both have their own technologies to prevent users from eating up all the resources. Both Microsoft and Citrix say that if using XenApp 6.x you should use either Dynamic Fair Share Scheduling (Microsoft technology) or Citrix CPU utilization (Citrix Technology).

Do you recognize the following? You get a call for support about an issue an user is experiencing. The service desk provides you with some information in the call, but you require more information. Especially, how to reproduce the error? At this point you can do two things. The first is go to the service desk, ask them to call the user and let them figure out what the user is doing to get the error.

I recently purchased a home lab server. After fiddling around with different hypervisors I decided to go with Hyper-V server 2012 R2. One of the benefits of using Windows Server 2012 R2 with the hyper-v Role installed is that an administrator can use data deduplication to reduce the used storage for the VHD(X) files on the storage system. Hyper-V server 2012 R2 natively. Reading a few articles on the internet I found a few describing how to get data deduplication on Windows 8.

Whilst working on a vdisk image for our XenApp hosted desktops I encountered an issue while converting the physical disk to vdisk. Since we are using PVS6.1 and I couldn’t find much info about the error I was getting. It made me search on the internet and found the following: source (consulted on 23-10-2013 13:00) Conversion of the disk does work(I get VSS_E_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE errors though), I found it funny that Citrix boldly claims that XenConvert 2.