Citrix, Desktop, Windows Technologies

Increase the number of vCPUs/Cores for Windows Desktop VM in XenDesktop

Scenario: You want to setup a XenDesktop environment hosting VMs with Windows Desktop OS for running graphical rich/intense applications. You are running XenServer and Windows 7.  You want to equip the Windows 7 VMs with 4 or more vCPUs to support the high end graphical loads. Issue: By default Windows desktop operating systems supports only two sockets for processors.  That means, in physical you can only have a maximum of two CPUs and this is applicable for virtual environments as well.  To overcome this limit in physical systems, you can opt for processors with multiple cores inside.  In virtual environments, […]

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Networking, TechnicalArchitecture, Virtualization, VMware

Setting up NetScaler lab environment from the scratch

Environment: You have existing Dev QA lab networked with 172.22.1.0/16 (255.255.0.0) IP addressing.  Your Dev QA network has access to public internet and it runs the Firewall that is going to be your Default Gateway both of your labs. You want to setup a NetScaler lab environment for your client systems in 172.22.1.0/16 and allow them to access web servers running in a test DMZ network under 192.168.1.0/24 through NetScaler.   Pre-requisites: Download VMware ESXi Hypervisor software from VMware. I’ve used the current latest version vSphere Hypervisor which is a free bare-metal hypervisor. It ships with ESXi 6.0 along with […]

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Desktop, Windows Technologies

The Get Windows 10 App will not display on domain joined PCs

As Windows 10 is out, you may be anticipating an upgrade prompt on your Windows 7 or Windows 8 systems. As per Microsoft instructions you ensure that Windows Update is enabled and all latest updates are installed on your systems but you don’t see the Windows 10 upgrade prompt on your systems. When you run the Windows troubleshooter “Get Windows 10 App”, it does all the checking and reports below message if your systems is part of a domain, which is a usual case with any of the business system.    You can also follow the Microsoft manual solution steps, […]

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