Reading Time: 3 minutes Recently I was presented with the following case. I was migrating from a Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 environment to a Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 environment. The new environment was running XenDesktop VDI’s with Windows 7 on Citrix XenServer. Because CAD and 3D application support was a requirement, the customer decided to use nVidia grid cards and use
Author: Vikash Jhagroe
Reading Time: 5 minutes In this blogpost I will show the basic setup of Citrix StoreFront 3.0. StoreFront is the component for making your published desktops and published app available for your end-users. A few new features of Citrix StoreFront 3.0: unified user experience improved customisation loopback communications (no more host file editing) treating published desktops as published apps delegate
July 4, 2015By Vikash JhagroeProvisioning Servicesbasic, citrix, configuration, configure, provisioning services, PVS, setup
Reading Time: 6 minutes So I got some free time now to continue setting up my homelab. I decided to start with a basic setup and configuration of Citrix Provisioning Services 7.6 (PVS). I will be needing this component to stream my desktops and servers. Citrix Provisioning Services (PVS) eliminates the need to manage, update and patch individual systems.
Reading Time: 3 minutes In this post I will show you how to do a basic installatoin of Citrix XenDesktop 7.6. I will be needing this to publish my desktops and applications. I will cover the configuration in another post, check back again for that. So for now let’s start the setup. In this post I will show you
May 26, 2015By Vikash JhagroeLicensing Servercitrix, configuration, configure, configuring, licensing server, setup
Reading Time: 4 minutes Adding a Citrix License Server to your environment is important if you are going to setup and use Citrix products and solutions. So let me show you how to: install the license server configure the license server add a license file to the license server My environment for the installation: downloaded the Citrix License Server 11.12.1 (Build 14100) for
Reading Time: 3 minutes With Citrix XenServer Supplemental Pack 1 (SP1) just released by Citrix I thought it would be nice to have a little tutorial on how to update your Citrix XenServer 6.5 hosts with SP1 using Citrix XenCenter. What’s new in SP1: more vm’s per host Intel GVT-d GPU pass-through for Windows virtual machines nVIDIA GPU pass-through for