Monthly Archive for: ‘June, 2011’

• Citrix: Citrix XenApp 6 and IMA Service won’t start

  Posted Jun 29 2011 by Kees Baggerman with 0 Comments

  I recently build a Citrix XenApp 6 deployment using RES Automation Manager but encountered problems with some (not all) installations. After a default installation the IMA service couldn’t start.  When looking at the eventlogs of one of those specific servers I found the following errors: …

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• Citrix: Setting up Merchandising Server, Task canceled by a user

  Posted Jun 28 2011 by Kees Baggerman with 0 Comments

  Today I was setting up a Citrix Merchandising Server. This is the virtual appliance that you can download from MyCitrix and the one I downloaded was the OVA file for vSphere. When I tried to import the OVA file I got an error: Task canceled …

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• Provisioning Services Shared Volumes Using Read-Only Managed Stores

  Posted Jun 26 2011 by Dane Young with 4 Comments

  When discussing options for vDisk storage placement and provisioning services there are two primary options: Block-based attached storage (Locally attached, iSCSI, FC, FCoE) and network attached storage (CIFS or NFS). One of the best resources to understand the advantages of Block-Based attached storage and NTFS …

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• A quick look at Citrix Provisioning Services 6

  Posted Jun 25 2011 by Barry Schiffer with 1 Comment

  One of the sessions on Citrix Synergy was all about Citrix Provisioning Services. I watched it online and was wowed because the session was all about the next version of Citrix Provisioning Services version 6.0.

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• Citrix: XenDesktop and local storage + IntelliCache

  Posted Jun 23 2011 by Kees Baggerman with 0 Comments

  I found this great blogpost by Christian Ferber: During recent events there have been a lot of requests for XenServer IntelliCache. Some of the contacs knew pretty well what IntelliCache is doing under the hood and some of them didn’t. I would like to summarize a …

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