Step 1 – Creating the ISO Library Folder
Connect to the XenServer using SSH and then issue the following command:
“mkdir -p /var/opt/xen/ISO_Store”
Step 2 – Create a ISO Storage Repository
Issue the following command within an SSH session:
“xe sr-create name-label=LocalISO type=iso device-config:location=/var/opt/xen/ISO_Store device-config:legacy_mode=true content-type=iso“
XenCenter will then update and show the new SR:
Now that we have an SR we just need to place the ISO files in the directory and installation can then begin, however trying to find direct links to media download is not always as straight forward as you may think.
Before you can assign a user or group account an RBAC role, you must add the account to XenServer through RBAC. This requires two tasks:
Join the pool or server to the domain. The domain can be either the domain in which the user or group belongs or a domain that is in the same Active Directory forest or that has a trust relationship with the user’s domain. Add the user’s Active Directory account or group to XenServer.
When you first install XenServer, a user account is added to XenServer automatically. This account is the local super user (LSU) , or root, which is authenticated locally by the XenServer computer. You can create additional users by adding Active Directory accounts from the Users tab in XenCenter. (Note that the term “user” here refers to anybody with a XenServer account, that is, anyone administering XenServers, regardless of level of their role.
XenServer’s Role Based Access Control (RBAC) lets you assign predefined roles, or sets of XenServer permissions, to Active Directory users and groups. These permissions control the level of access XenServer users (that is, people administering XenServer) have to servers and pools: RBAC is configured and deployed at the pool level. Because users acquire permissions through their assigned role, you simply need to assign a role to a user or their group.
I have designed two powershell based scripts which would install xenapp 6 completely(ie., prerequisites and xenapp6 setup).Yes, prerequisites and xenapp6.
Just point the script to your xenapp folder. It will take care of the rest. I have designed two scripts - one for prerequisites and the other for xenapp6 installation. After the first script is completed, create a dsn(file dsn) to connect to your database and change the username, password,dsn file location etc in the script and run it.
Desktop virtualization, often called client virtualization, is a virtualization technology used to separate a computer desktop environment from the physical computer. Desktop virtualization is considered a type of client-server computing model because the “virtualized” desktop is stored on a centralized, or remote, server and not the physical machine being virtualized.
Desktop virtualization “virtualizes desktop computers” and these virtual desktop environments are “served” to users on the network. You interact with a virtual desktop in the same way you would use a physical desktop.
XenApp 5 is designed to bring world-class application delivery to Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 and optimize and enhance the Microsoft platform. To learn more about XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2003, see CTX113699 and CTX116622.
Below are the new features and benefits added in XenApp 5.
Performance Improvements XenApp 5 includes these significant overall performance improvements:
Farm scalability: Reductions in Independent Management Architecture (IMA) service start time, discovery time, application resolution and enumeration time, and server enumeration time.
Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 (previously codenamed “Project Ohio”) will be released soon. In this article, I’ll describe its new features.
In my mind, the most important thing about PS 4.5 is what it is not. Presentation Server 4.5 is NOT a major overall of PS 4. PS 4.5 has several new features—some of which are really cool—but none of which are architecturally significant or game changing. I think this is okay though.
In a much anticipated move, Citrix has made the Tech Preview (beta) version of MetaFrame Presentation Server 4.0 (MPS4) available to partners and iForum attendees. MPS4 contains most (if not all) of the cool new “future technologies” that were previewed at iForum last week.
I’ve started writing about some of the new features, and I’ll certainly write more as I work them out in my lab. In the meantime, I’d like to provide a quick “master list” of all the new features that are currently slated to be included in MPS4.
Server virtualization is the partitioning of a physical server into smaller virtual servers to help maximize your server resources. In server virtualization the resources of the server itself are hidden, or masked, from users, and software is used to divide the physical server into multiple virtual environments, called virtual or private servers. This is in contrast to dedicating one server to a single application or task.
Note: Hardware virtualization, which is also known as server virtualization or simply virtualization, is the abstraction of computing resources from the software that uses those resources.
