Citrix Netscaler VPX and vMotion Problems
A couple of my Colleague, Claus Andersen and Jørgen Rosenkvist Pedersen have had some customers that have had problem with Citrix NetScaler VPX and HPE Blade C7000 with virtual connects. The problem may also exist in other types of hardware After vMotion of the Citrix NetScaler VPX from one blade to another, one of the network ports in the destination…
Oracle licensing and support on VMware vSphere
As every one knows any good project get stopped by licensing. Oracle are up to there old tricks of trying to get more money or making virtual environment segmented (extra vCenter på Oracle hosts. staying on 5.5). It's properly the same with Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer. Before you just do as Oracle or there auditing partners says,…
VMware vRealize Operations for Published Applications 6.2 Released
VMware has released a updated version of vRealize Operations for Published Applications, this new version add the following: Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.6 support – Extends vRealize Operations Manager monitoring & reporting capabilities for Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.6, enabling Citrix administrator to monitor and troubleshoot a wide range of Citrix workloads, from server-hosted applications and desktops…
vRealize Operations for Horizon now with support for Citrix XenApp
VMware has med som updates to there vRealize Operations for Horizon, that makes it possible to get performance/health data from Citrix XenApp 6.5. For more information see this VMware Blog article: http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2015/06/vrealize-operations-horizon-just-got-whole-lot-better.html
Citrix NetScaler problem running on ESXi
After applying ESXi 5.5 patch ESXi550-201410401-BG or ESXi 5.1 ESXi510-201410401-BG, the Citrix NetScaler lost network connectivity after running for a few minutes. I think that this also applies to patches released after this. There was a workaround published by Citrix and VMware in some KB's. heres the link to the VMware KB: KB2092809 Citrix has now released a new version/build 10.5.55.8 that solves…
Intel E5-2600 V2 CPUs and Virtualization
There is a bug in the Intel E5-2600 V2 CPUs when running a virtualized environemt ontop of servers runnings this type of CPUs, that can resolve in Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) og Kernel Panic in Linux Virtual Machines, this not apply to VMware vSphere but also to Hyper-V and other hypervisor. There may also be other Intel E5-xx00 V2…