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#XenDesktop 7.1 on #Hyper-V Pilot Guide! – #Citrix
This is a great PoC guide, some thing I would have done differently in detail but overall great work!
You’ve heard of XenDesktop 7.1, experienced a demo and worked through the Reviewer’s Guide. Now where do you turn when you’re ready for a PoC, pilot and preparations for a full-scale rollout?
Here on the Citrix Readiness and Enablement Team, we’re always looking for ways to empower our customers to be successful on their projects. To this end, we’ve taken one of our most popular hands-on lab guides used to train hundreds of internal and external students and reworked it for consumption by the masses. The XenDesktop 7.1 on Hyper-V Pilot Guide can be download fromhttps://citrix.sharefile.com/d/scaa256260df4ab3b. In this guide we cover the following topics with step-by-step instructions and screenshots:
– Configuring System Center Virtual Machine Manager and Installing the Agent
– Setting Up SQL Server Mirroring for a XenDesktop site
– Setting up the XenDesktop Site
– Joining a Controller to an Existing Site
– Configuring StoreFront and Installing Certificates
– Configuring NetScaler for StoreFront Load Balancing
– Installing the VDA Software on Desktop and Server VMs
– Creating Catalogs of Machine for Desktops and Servers
– Creating Delivery Groups for Desktops and Servers
– Delivering Installed and App-V Applications
– Provisioning Services Configuration and Optimizations
– Using the XenDesktop Setup Wizard
– Setting up Remote Access with NetScaler and StoreFront
– Internal and External Connectivity Scenarios
– Load Evaluator Policies
– Monitoring with Director
– Exploring Configuration Logging
– Exploring Delegated Administration
– Working with PowerShell
And much more!
Take a look through the document and let us know your thoughts…
IMPORTANT: This guide is designed to be used as a reference for building PoC and/or pilot environments. Production environments should always be…
Continue reading here!
//Richard
#Citrix #StoreFront Planning Guide
Ok, this product has caused some headache since it was released. And I must say that this guide is something that Citrix should have release a long time ago… there are so many companies out there struggling with how to deal with Web Interface being faced out and how/what to do with StoreFront!
So enjoy!
Download StoreFront Planning Guide!
//Richard
Content Switching instead of Load balancing of XenApp XML brokers? – #XenApp #NetScaler #CS #LB
Ok, I was contacted by another colleague today again about a customer and their setup of XenApp load balancing. They of course had NetScalers and had read the guidelines and best practises from Citrix on how to do load balancing and monitoring of XML brokers. But they had the same issue that many have, they had to contact the network team when they needed to add farms that they should load balance, and they needed an IP for each LB vServer per XenApp farm…
And this is not the first time I’ve seen this… why doesn’t people use Content Switching instead when doing load balancing of their XenApp farms (and other resources as well of course!)?
This is the Citrix picture on how to do it;
But what I’d do instead and recommend is to use Content Switching (CS) instead. Setup a CS vServer with an IP and an A-record in DNS, in the picture below it’s the one with bogus IP 10.10.10.10 and FQDN of cs8080.envokeit.local.
Then what you do is to configure a CNAME alias for each of your farms in DNS, like farm1.envokeit.local that you can see in the picture. Have the CNAME to be an alias of the CS you just created. Then in the NetScaler you setup your LB vServers just like you’ve always done and create the Service Group and add the correct monitors etc. to it. And remember that you in this case don’t have to have an IP set on the LB vServers, these don’t have to be directly addressable from the network, only through your CS that you just setup.
Then on the CS create your policies to do CS on the hostname of the incoming requests to the respective LB vServer. No more requesting IP’s per farm and all of that, one IP and you can support MANY farms…. I just love CS! 🙂
Happy content switching! 😉
//Richard
The IT Melting Pot! 