October 2013 – Page 3

October 22, 2013Citrix, VMware

Sequence of steps that takes places on VMware vCenter System when Citrix XenDesktop 7 Machine Catalog creation process copies over the Base Image VM.

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October 22, 2013Citrix

Overview of Steps involved in setting up XenDesktop 7 on Windows Server 2012 from scratch with VMware ESXi 5.1.0 as Hypervisor

Install Windows Server 2012 with all of the Windows Updates and add it to the Domain. Refer to Step-By-Step Screencast of Installing Windows Server 2012 Install Updates Add to the Domain The XenDesktop installer will take care of installing all of the pre-requisite software on the server along with enabling the required Server Roles and Features. Install XenDesktop 7 with all of the features on the same server. Refer to Installing Citrix XenDesktop 7 on Windows Server 2012 Delivery Controller Studio Director License Server StoreFront Along with features XenDesktop will also installs Microsoft SQl Server 2012 Express Allows FireWall […]

October 22, 2013Technological

XenDesktop 7 does not show up newly added/created VMs on the VMware ESXi 5 Hypervisor

To setup a new Desktop VMs Pool, you create a new Desktop VM with all the required settings. However, while creating a new Machine Catalog to chose the newly build Desktop VM as the Master Image, its NOT listed. This happens whenever your vCenter server having trouble communicating with VMware ESXi host. Thus XenDesktop 7 wouldn’t be able to see the respective VMs and their changes. In my case, vCenter server was unable to connect to ESXi host since my ESXi licenses got expired. License Expiry warning causing Communication failure between my vCenter and ESXi host.