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Troubleshooting Citrix XenApp??

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Troubleshooting Citrix XenApp??

Overview of this book

Citrix XenApp® is an application virtualization product from Citrix. It allows users to connect to their corporate applications from various computer systems and even mobile devices. XenApp® has grown into a complex software with ever-expanding infrastructures in place. Together with tight integrations with other systems such as Terminal Services, Active Directory, and other third-party authentication services, troubleshooting XenApp® has become more complicated. This book teaches you how to approach troubleshooting complex issues with XenApp® deployments and understand the problem, find a fix or workaround, determine the root cause, and apply corrective steps wherever applicable. The book progresses to give you an idea about the many supportive components that play an important role in XenApp’s application delivery model and should be considered while troubleshooting XenApp® issues. It also shows you standard troubleshooting processes so that you can resolve complex XenApp® issues in a mission critical environment. By the end of this book, you will see how and where to use supportive components that help minimize XenApp® issues. Also, we’ll explain various tools that can be useful when monitoring and optimizing entire application and desktop delivery model.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Provisioning Services advantages


The following are the advantages of Provisioning Services:

  • It minimizes the overall time it takes to update all XenApp/XenDesktop servers

  • Using Provisioning Services, we can quickly expand our XenApp farm

  • It maximizes overall server uptime

  • Provisioning Services will give you a quick rollback mechanism

  • It will reduce the overall storage space requirement

  • Within one reboot, we can easily deliver the server updates to any number of servers

Let's have a look at the issues we may face with Citrix Provisioning Services.

Scenario 1 – BOOTMGR is missing

You are using the PVS imaging wizard to import a vDisk into a PVS server and you get an error prompt while rebooting the machine. After reboot, PXE works properly, but you get an error prompt and booting stops:

Troubleshooting

Proceed with the following steps:

  1. Remount the vDisk, open the disk partition, and set it to active.

  2. Check the NIC driver on the target device.

  3. Go to the virtual machine properties in Virtual Device Node,...