Comments for Matt Hensley's Blog

Comment on How to Enable USB Redirection in XenDesktop 3.0 by matthensley

matthensley — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:35:06 +0000

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for taking time to read my blog and I appreciate the feedback. The client I was referring to in my article is the Citrix Desktop Receiver. However, the Online Plug-in, Version 11.2, is the new client which supersedes the Desktop Receiver and will give you the functionality your looking for. It can be located at the following link:

http://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/details.asp?downloadId=1858087&productId=163057

Comment on How to Enable USB Redirection in XenDesktop 3.0 by Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:01:33 +0000

Hi, Thanks for this article! It’s very useful.
Which Desktop Client/Connector do you have installed on your System?

I have access to my Desktops, but i miss the toolbar with the usb symbol to control the Decives, which i can see on your Screenshot. Can you give me an advise?

Thanks
Daniel

Comment on Shuttle ESXi System: Pint-Sized Power by Mike

Mike — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:33:24 +0000

How about RAID for this setup, what are the options now the only PCI slot is used by the NIC? I’m guessing some kind of NAS!?

Comment on Common Provisioning Server 5.0 Issues by Jeff Grigsby

Jeff Grigsby — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:21:58 +0000

I have been working with a PVS deployment since we were running Ardence 4. The product was at first good for us, but had a few issues with performance HA and the occasional missing configuration. Since it became a Citrix product we have had a SR open with Citrix. It has been disastrous and I have put in many hundreds of hours of overtime trying to work it out. We recently upgraded to 5.1 SP1 and more issues have arisen. If I could have switched this out I would have by now. I purchased Zero Clients from Wyse and if they had been thin clients I would have moved on to a VDI deployment by now instead of streaming from the data center out to the desktop. I am sure this product must work somewhere but it certainly is failing for us.

Comment on SRM 4.0 and EMC Celerra: How to Guide by Virtualization Short Take #31 - blog.scottlowe.org - The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:00:42 +0000

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Comment on Provisioning Server and XenServer Interoperability by matthensley

matthensley — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:13:25 +0000

It was the resolution for the specific issue I mentioned in the blog post regarding the POC. Prior to adding the registry key the vDisk build process was taking over 2 hours which obviously was a big issue as there was only about 3.6GB of actual data to capture. After disabling Offloading it took around 12 minutes.

Comment on Provisioning Server and XenServer Interoperability by John R.

John R. — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:01:20 +0000

Hey Matt – did that turn out to be the issue and did the workaround fix it?

Comment on Citrix XenApp Training, No Excuses! by Kevin Shanahan

Kevin Shanahan — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:06:44 +0000

Thank you Matt! These are very useful videos. Sometimes we become so used to “Googling” answers and being reactive to situations that we forget to search for the tools, such as these videos, that help us become more proactive.

Comment on NetScaler VPX: HA for the Masses by matthensley

matthensley — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:00:30 +0000

Hi Nick,

Thanks for the post and for bringing the Zeus solution to my attention. I will be sure to check it out.

Thanks

Comment on NetScaler VPX: HA for the Masses by John M. Smith

John M. Smith — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:51:47 +0000

Nice post, good to systems folks revolting against the “CISCO/NETWORK MAFIA”

I love my Network guys but this technology should have never been in their hands in the first place.

Can’t wait for the production version with a usable Cipher!!!

Good luck…fight the battle

John