How to Become a Citrix Jedi

Presenting at the last MyCUGC event was truly an honor. See my full blog on “How to Become a Citrix Jedi” located on the MyCUGC website – https://www.mycugc.org/blogs/cugc-blogs/2018/03/12/how-to-be-a-citrix-jedi

Presenting at the last MyCUGC event was truly an honor. See my full blog on “How to Become a Citrix Jedi” located on the MyCUGC website – https://www.mycugc.org/blogs/cugc-blogs/2018/03/12/how-to-be-a-citrix-jedi
I’m at the point now where the Datacenter#2 has Networking, Storage, and Hosts ready for me to use. That means it’s VM building time. You pretty much need the identical components you have for your existing site. Remember the key focus here is Highly Available and reliability. So if one datacenter goes down, the other…
Building Golden Images, Master Images, References Images (whatever you want to call them) is a necessity in today’s world. All too often I see Citrix customers using persistent VMs built manually. Sometimes 20-50 of the same VMs, going through the same manual clicks for upgrades, the same manual motions for software pushes, windows updates, etc……
Since Part 1 has been published we have learned a little bit more about the overall design of the environment. Let’s recap the initial requirements. Management has instructed the team to build a Highly Available and Stable environment that spans multiple data centers. Each technology component must be separate in each datacenter. Which means, no sharing…
Citrix Active Active Datacenter with App Layering and App-V (May, 2018) Citrix Synergy is an annual conference where Citrix, Partners, Vendors, and Customers come together to socialize, present, inform, and train everyone on current announcements, new marketing campaigns, certifications, road maps, and general new initiatives. This year I had the privilege of hosting a…
Hey all and welcome to my first blog post. I was recently involved in a new Netscaler implementation. Two Netscalers (5550 MPX) were purchased and will be configured in a HA pair. They currently have 2 other Netscalers (5500 MPX) that are used for production. This project is to setup the new Netscalers in the…
Continuing on the discussion of Automating the Citrix Image build process with MDT. One small problem is that there’s never just one image to do. You probably have an Image for a couple different line of businesses, another Image for these 3 Developers, an Administrator image, and maybe a few more images for other miscellaneous…