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Rapid Provisioning Bulk Virtual Machines using SCVMM and Hyper-V; Creating Full Clones for XenDesktop or Microsoft VDI

by Dane Young, MBA | Apr 6, 2014 | Citrix, Microsoft

Over the last several years I’ve written a number of PowerShell scripts, ranging in complexity from one-liners to very complex multi-function modular packages for distribution (See the Citrix Chained Reboot Scripts for XenApp and XenDesktop for an example of one...

GPU Tech Conference (GTC) 2014 Presentation – If You Build It, Will They Come? Better Question Is, Will They Stay?

by Dane Young, MBA | Mar 26, 2014 | Citrix, General Technology, VMware

I was recently asked to present an session at the GPU Tech Conference 2014, sponsored by NVIDIA (http://www.gputechconf.com). Below is the description of the session with the attachments and images from the slide deck.  Click here to listen to the 30 minute recorded...

Rapid Provisioning Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Hyper-V hosts using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) – Part 1

by Dane Young, MBA | Feb 10, 2014 | Microsoft

Don’t miss the YouTube video with the results at the bottom! Over the last several years, I’ve been deploying a LOT of Hyper-V. As a long-time VMware fan, I have to admit, System Center and Hyper-V are sorely lacking in my opinion when it comes to Host...

Scale-Out File Server Role and Citrix Provisioning Services vDisk Stores: My Thoughts and Recommendations

by Dane Young, MBA | Jan 4, 2014 | Citrix

Updated: The focus and root cause in this blog post has changed since I initially wrote it.  There are tons of good nuggets in the first section, so I decided to leave them so readers could follow my troubleshooting logic… Over the last couple months I’ve...

Missing ICA Session Performance Counters on XenDesktop VDA

by Dane Young, MBA | Dec 26, 2013 | Citrix

I’ve not been able to nail down why the “ICA Session” performance counters are missing on several of my XenDesktop pools. Digging around I only found resolution for XenApp servers (CTX127151), and the DLL file is not in the same location for...
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