Month: March 2016

Getting black screen connecting to VMware View desktops?

March 26, 2016

Did come across this on the forums and seems fairly ubiquitous insofar as reports. Symptoms If you recently: i) upgraded to version 6.0 Update 1 for ESXi ii) Running the latest VMware Tools for View Desktops iii) But have an older view agent installed Will see in the PCOIP logs (<drive letter>\ProgramData\VMware\VDM\logs LVL:0 RC:0 EXTERN :svga_devtap ==> second render … More Getting black screen connecting to VMware View desktops?

VSphere 6 / PVS target devices not booting? Here’s what to check

March 12, 2016

ESXi VM hardware versions 10 and 11 include a SATA controller for CD/DVD by default. If the SATA and SCSI controller are present on the PVS Target Device, the target will fail to boot. PVS relies on the SCSI controller, SATA is the only one that can be removed. To resolve this issue, change the … More VSphere 6 / PVS target devices not booting? Here’s what to check

ESXi tip: how to configure hosts to offload their logs to a collector server from the command line

March 12, 2016

Diagnostics information can be sent to a remote host instead, or in addition to the local store. This information is useful for troubleshooting host failures. Here is how to configure from the command prompt in 7 easy steps: To configure hosts for Netdump with the command line, perform the following steps: 1.Open a console session … More ESXi tip: how to configure hosts to offload their logs to a collector server from the command line

XenApp 7.7 Delivery controller issue – having comms issues getting to the license server?

March 12, 2016

Recently came across this in my lab where i had 2 sites set up (azure) in opposing continents – one in Europe and in the Americas. The license server i had located in the Americas data center. The delivery controller located in the European data center would from time to time have issues connecting to … More XenApp 7.7 Delivery controller issue – having comms issues getting to the license server?

Citrix/hypervisor tip: users complaining of slow performance but network connection/memory/CPU seem fine???

March 6, 2016

Very interesting chestnut came across this week with relation to the above. So from the top: Environment ESXi 5.5 cluster (running a variety of U’s 1 and 2 – i know, bad boy should be on the same revision) Citrix Xenapp 6.5 (HRP06 + recommended patches) published desktops Standard spec 32gb RAM – 8gb write … More Citrix/hypervisor tip: users complaining of slow performance but network connection/memory/CPU seem fine???

Handy Citrix Profile Management tip: if user store is unavailable do this

March 6, 2016

Sometimes, with the best will in the world hardware will fail, and yes sometimes even “redundancy” eg RAID and what not won’t cover – if i had a quid for every instance i’ve seen failures for seemingly covered-across-the-board from a fault tolerant and something will fall down, whether its the controller or UPS causing a … More Handy Citrix Profile Management tip: if user store is unavailable do this