By Jeff Rohrer, on June 6th, 2012
Directly from XenCenter Help:
The best practice for HA is not to make configuration changes to the pool while HA is enabled. Instead, it is intended to be the “2am safeguard” which will restart servers in the event of a problem when there isn’t a human administrator nearby. If you are actively making configuration changes in the pool such …
By Jeff Rohrer, on June 5th, 2012
So that an administrator can perform maintenance on a XenServer host while Workload Balancing (WLB) is enabled in the pool, place the host in Maintenance mode. Here is how to do it (based on an excerpt from XenCenter Help).
In the Resources pane of XenCenter, perform one of the following actions:
1. Select the XenServer host, right-click and click …
By Jeff Rohrer, on April 11th, 2012
Based on the XenCenter Help Contents, the following is a description of the Restart Priority of virtual machines (VMs) and how to configure using the XenCenter management console:
Select the VM in the Resources pane and click the HA restart priority tab. Choose Restart to guarantee a VM will be restarted if sufficient resources are available within the pool. …
By Jeff Rohrer, on April 10th, 2012
To move a virtual machine (VM) from one XenServer resource pool to another pool, use the Export wizard and the Import wizard in the XenCenter management console.
The following steps to export and import VMs are condensed explanations from the XenCenter Help Contents.
Export a VM
Select the desired VM or VMs to move and open the Export wizard. …
By Jeff Rohrer, on February 24th, 2012
This is obviously a really simple task, but what some Citrix test takers don’t know is that you can download Citrix XenCenter for free and perform some tasks without having to build a single XenServer host.
The main reason I downloaded it is because I’m “in between” XenServer labs now while I wait for my new computer to arrive, …
By Jeff Rohrer, on December 29th, 2010
See CitrixTV for more great Citrix tutorials.
Some of the sections featured in this video tutorial:
*Installing the XD Controller and Virtual Desktop Agent *Building and updating the Master Image using Machine Creation Service *Evaluating HDX Technologies
Take note that this tutorial can be used with all versions of XenDesktop.
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