Updating using the XenApp SDK Update Resource Kit’ we will be able to have cmdlets to manage our Citrix XenApp6 environment from PowerShell, useful for automating our daily tasks using PowerShell scripts. For XenApp 5 we'll use XenApp Commands,
One of the important features that Microsoft Exchange SP1 brings us 2010 is the possibility of managing the archiving of our users directly in Exchange and being able to store it remotely wherever we are interested, for example in an archive database located on a secondary disk drive (without good performance, no RAID protection…) in order to maintain user mailboxes in accordance with our requirements; This is interesting for specific users who need to have a high volume of stored mail.
In this document we will see a simple way to configure a shutdown in our VMware vSphere virtual infrastructure if we have a UPS from the manufacturer EATON. To do this, we will first need to have a VMware vMA appliance, where we will install Intelligent Power Protector (PPI) and he will be in charge of sending ordered shutdowns to our ESXi hosts.
In this document, we'll look at installing and configuring VMware vCenter Heartbeat, this product allows us to obtain high availability of our VMware vCenter server in environments where it is critical, allowing application-level protection at all times, services, SQL Server if on-premises, Update Manager or if we have VMware View protecting it for use with VMware Composer. With this product we will have two vCenter servers, A primary one (active) and a secondary one (passive) where we can manually change roles (switchover) or in the event of a fall (failover) We will have high availability since the information is continuously replicated through a private network, This drop could be at the hardware level, S.O., Network Issues, vCenter application crashes or their dependencies.
Citrix XenApp's advanced power and capacity management enables significant savings in power consumption and improved load capacity of our XenApp servers. This will ensure that our XenApps can be turned off when they are not needed and turned on automatically when they are needed, thus getting more load on fewer servers. This feature is available for Enterprise editions & Platinum de Presentation Server 4.5 (with or without Feature Pack 1) Rollup Pack 3, XenApp 5 o XenApp 6.
For all those who still use Program Neighborhood you will know that from the 11.1 of Citrix customers can no longer avail of this functionality. In order to give it a continuity, Citrix some time ago released a utility called Citrix Quick Launch that will allow us to connect directly to XenApp servers or to its applications as 'old'.
En este documento veremos dos formas de optimizar nuestras granjas de XenApp mediante un par de directivas de Citrix, la Administración del uso de CPU e implementando la optimización de la memoria virtual. Con la primera administraremos el uso de la CPU donde podremos administrar el % de uso compartido por usuario para evitar que los consumos altos de CPU afecten al resto de usuarios consiguiendo además una mayor capacidad por servidor. Optimizando la memoria virtual mejoraremos el uso compartido de ficheros DLL entre las aplicaciones que se ejecutan, ahorrando ambas memorias (virtual y real).
Once our hosts have been configured, it is advisable to keep a backup copy of their configuration, an easy way to back up the entire configuration of an ESXi host is by using the VMware vMA appliance or by using the VMware vSphere CLI (vCLI). Once we have the backup, we can restore it if necessary in a simple way, we will also see another command to reset ESXi hosts to factory values.
The past 19 April, VMware introduced VMware Compliance Checker, a free VMware tool (written in Java) that will help us verify the security of our VMware hosts (ESX or ESXi), recommended as one of the best practices to be carried out in our environment in order to secure or detect problems, obtaining a detailed report of the recommendations to be made on each host.
Hoy se puede ver en la web de Shavlik que ha sido adquirida por VMware, así que os presento (para el que no conozca) VMware Go, que es una herramienta desarrollada por ambas compañias en colaboración, es gratuita y online, que permite administrar de forma limitada nuestra infraestructura virtual VMware, es una herramienta pensada para los nuevos y pequeños clientes que se adentran en el nuevo mundo de VMware y quieren comenzar desde una gestión sencilla. Esta herramienta dispone de su versión gratuita (que es la que veremos en este documento) y la versión VMware Go Pro de pago que dispondrá completará las carencias de su versión free.
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