Update Feb 11, 2020 In my First Blog post here Part1 I showed you how to set up Windows Deduplication on Server 2016. This second series will show you my production results and what I gained in space-saving I estimated 18.5% in savings in the first post. However, I got 23% back, I think that […]
Summary This guide is geared around explaining how Zoom and Citrix work together. It will show you the Architecture and provide information for what is needed on the clients. There is information added in the document for education purposes as well. Zoom VDI information Zoom requires both the “Zoom Media Plugin” + “Zoom Client for […]
Windows 2016 Deduplication on FSLogix Containers and ODFC During the time of running my Shrink Scripts (yes I have a couple I go back and forth with) for FSLogix, I noticed that my 4 TB Drive is becoming used more and more. There wasn’t really anything I could do at this point other than adding […]
I was recently tasked with moving some PVS target/vDisk to a new PVS environment. There are many ways to achieve this. However, this is how I migrate devices from one PVS Farm to another. I am sure there are better ways to automate this as my blog is just a simple way to get it […]
We recently purchased a 28 Node Nutanix setup. We currently have a good chunk of Citrix VAD in VMware. During the design, I was a bit confused about what plugin went where. After looking back, It’s straightforward now. I wanted to take the opportunity and help put this little quick guide together. That people who […]
This document was built on Slack, Citrix URLs, and Citrix Consultants from the field that shared how they successfully were able to get teams working 100% within Citrix. If you disagree and find something different then let’s update it. But the information Is shared among many people and it is showing good results. I’ll try […]
This quick write-up isn’t anything advanced. Most of you out there know this. But some may still question it. We know there is a lot of documentation around PVS and Martin Zugec is updating a lot of this within Citrix Tech Zone https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/tech-zone.html . This is more of a confirmation that running a defrag on […]
Introdution The Citrix WAN optimization policy (or “low bandwidth” policy) aims to compress and reduce the bandwidth used by the ICA protocol by lowering the visual quality for users with slow and unreliable connections. This article will benchmark the best possible configuration for the low bandwidth policy in a Citrix 7.15 LTSR CU3 environment. Testing […]
I recently converted from VMware to AHV, and I wanted to show how I did Nutanix Files 3.7 with FSlogix. While I haven’t moved everything over yet, but I have tested this very hard, and it’s solid as iron. I still use VMware for my datacenter servers, but we wanted our Citrix Environment on all […]
This is a guide on how I upgraded my site from 7.15 flat all the way to 1912. I also included moving off 2012R2 to 2016 DDCs with some troubleshooting situations you might run into. I covered the basics of upgrading Licensing, DDC upgrades, Storefront upgrades with NS VIP configuration, PVS upgrades, WEM upgrades, VDA […]