My workspace journey
Diagnosing long logon times is quite a challenge. Citrix Director breaks our logon time down into unique phase to help focus your attention on an aspect of the entire logon process instead of logon in its entirety. Looking at my 100+ second logon time, I noticed I have a 24 second virtual machine start time. … Continue reading Logon: VM Start
Winter in Minnesota. Back the car out of my driveway, reach the road and my car immediately slides, sideways downhill. I think I need new tires. One of the best practices I like to talk about is “Maintain, because set and forget does not work.” We all know it is important to maintain our systems,… Continue reading Citrix VDA Performance
I just experienced a 100+ second logon time for my Virtual Apps and Desktops session. Hopefully, you are not thinking “That’s pretty fast”. If I look at the detailed breakdown of my logon time, you can see it is a mess. Something is happening with my environment to cause things to spike. I want to… Continue reading Logon: Brokering
This has confused me with Citrix Profile Management… What is the difference between synchronizing a folder and mirroring a folder? When I say source and destination, I mean the following: Source = virtual desktop Destination = profile store The descriptions for both sound very similar, so I thought I would dig into this a little… Continue reading Synchronize vs Mirror
You might have heard that the next version of Citrix Receiver is Citrix Workspace app. Workspace app extends the capabilities of Receiver to incorporate other on-premises and cloud-hosted services, like Virtual Apps and Desktops (traditional, on-premises deployment) Virtual Apps and Desktops Service Access Control Content Collaboration Endpoint Management Because Citrix Workspace incorporates more than Windows/Linux… Continue reading Workspace app with StoreFront
A large number of LoginVSI tests I perform are single user tests. I want to compare a single user’s bandwidth usage, RAM usage, CPU usage, etc. I know that LoginVSI incorporates monitoring, but these tests, I prefer perfmon data. How do I get perfmon to start capturing metrics when a user logs in and stop… Continue reading LoginVSI PowerShell – Perfmon
I have a PowerShell function that preps my lab and another executes a single LoginVSI test. Now, I need to fully automate my LoginVSI testing to perform multiple tests without any interaction. I need to do the following: Perform a test for each Master VM I specify For each Master VM, test specific workloads For… Continue reading LoginVSI PowerShell – Automate Tests
This XenServer PowerShell script resets a XenServer VM by doing the following: Shuts down the VM down and waits for the VM to power off Reverting to the “Baseline” snapshot (creates one if one not already created) Starts the VM Waits for VM to be in a running state, (waits until the VM’s Netlogon Windows… Continue reading Citrix Hypervisor PowerShell – Reset VM
I’m trying to setup single sign-on to a new SaaS app with Citrix Access Control and ran into a strange issue. The SaaS app is rejecting my x.509 certificate because it is incorrect. Let’s look at this a little closer. When you create a new SSO configuration for a SaaS app in Citrix Access Control,… Continue reading x.509 Certificate Rejected for SaaS SSO
This Citrix Hypervisor PowerShell script restarts a Citrix Hypervisor host and waits for the host to be in the running state before continuing by waiting until the Netlogon service on the VM is running.
