Hi guys,
Thomas Poppelgaard has published a few articles about Citrix products which I wanted to share with you. All credit goes to Thomas for writing and publishing his findings.
How to Shut Down a Virtual Machine which is Unresponsive in the Pending or Amber State in XenServer 5.x:
Summary
This article describes how to shut down a virtual machine, which is in a pending state (or amber state), from the XenServer control domain.
Requirements
You require the following components:
- Console session to the XenServer control domain
- Intermediate Linux / XenServer administration skills
Background
Sometimes, when you initiate a shutdown or a reboot from the XenCenter, the virtual machine is in an unresponsive state when it is in the pending state (or amber state), and the task being performed is also in an unresponsive state.
The xe-toolstack-restart refreshes all tasks and displays the virtual machine to be in a running state, but the virtual machine would not be available or be responding.
Read the entire article here.
Citrix Receiver with ShareFile Tech Preview:
Summary
Citrix Receiver and Citrix ShareFile can help you store, synch, view, edit, and share documents easily ans securely from anywhere on any device.
Read the entire article here.
Delay Starting Published Application in #Citrix #XenApp:
Symptoms
Applications with .Net or Java components take long time to start.
Cause
When the user accesses the published XenApp application with .NET or Java component, first time user logon to the published application takes long time to appear after first click over the application. The application appears after a time out that varies and after appearing, the applications behave as expected.
In other cases, the application is started correctly but during scenarios such as execution or accessing different module of the application, this access might take more time to process or fail in some cases.
This behavior occurs when the servers where the applications are published do not have Internet access and these applications have some.NET or Java component certificate that must be verified. If the server does not have Internet access, then the .NET framework or Java component cannot access the crl.microsoft.com website to verify that the digital signatures that are used to sign the binaries for managed applications are valid. Each certificate check has a 15 second timeout in the .NET runtime implementation. Depending on what features are installed, this can add up to a minute of startup time for the application.
Resolution
To avoid this behavior and resolve the application delay, you must change several options in the Internet properties Advanced tab on the servers, applying a GPO or manually through registry modifications
Read the entire article here.