Citrix XenDesktop changing from Eval to prod licence

 

Maybe everyone else knows about this, but I wanted to change from the 30 day XenDesktop Express edition licence to the production licence. And Citrix have made it really easy, if you notice that little button up the top right.

Sweet.

EdgeSight Error: 'Service Unavailable'

 

EdgeSight Error: 'Service Unavailable' after reboot from initial installation (CTX126899)

When attempting to access the EdgeSight console

Not: If you attempt to stop and restart the rsshadmin and rsshapp services, an incorrect logon message appears and the service fails to start.

True: In the IIS management console, the EdgeSight Application Pool might be in a stopped state.. The Application Pool starts successfully but reverts to a stopped state after a few seconds.

Resolution
Tried this: Re-type the logon credentials for the rsshasdmin and rsshapp services.
Tried this: Re-type the logon credentials used for the EdgeSight Application Pool identity.
Tried this: Add the EdgeSight Application Pool identity logon account to the EdgeSight server local IIS_IUSRS group.
Tried this: Restart the EdgeSight server.

Turned out the service account was blocked via a GPO from ‘logon as a batch job’. Once the policy was updated and replayed it worked fine.

This is the event viewer that found the problem.

XenDesktop 5 unable to connect to vSphere

 

• The error when connecting:

New-Item -Path 'xdhyp:\connections' -Name 'Melbourne VDI' -HypervisorAddress @('https://youFWDN/sdk') -ConnectionType 'VCenter' -Username 'vdiadmin' -Password '********' -AdminAddress 'localhost'

New-Item : The hypervisor was not contactable at the supplied address.
    + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [New-Item], InvalidOperationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Citrix.XDPowerShell.HostStatus.HypervisorNotContactable,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewItemCommand

New-Item : The hypervisor was not contactable at the supplied address.
    + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [New-Item], InvalidOperationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Citrix.XDPowerShell.HostStatus.HypervisorNotContactable,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewItemCommand

• If you open IE and try and connect to:

'https://youFWDN/sdk' – You get a certificate error.

You try an follow the instructions but are missing some details on the ‘local computer’ option. From: http://forums.citrix.com/thread.jspa?threadID=278523

“Open Internet Explorer and enter the address of the vSphere server as https://FQDN of the vSphere server
Accept the security warnings.
Click the Certificate Error in the Security Status bar and select View certificates.
Click Install certificate, and then click Next.
Select Place all certificates in the following store, and then click Browse.
Select the Show physical stores check box. (at the bottom of the dialog)
Expand Trusted People and select Local Computer.
Click OK, and then click Finish.”

• But you don't see the ‘Local Computer”

• The solution is you are on a W2k8 R2 server so run IE as Administrator and you can then add the cert to the Trusted People, Local Computer.

Solved !

• Restart IE, go to the URL, no error then go back to XenDesktop.

XenDesktop Delivery Controller and vSphere 4.1 (certs issue)

 

XenDesktop Delivery Controller and vSphere 4.1

vCenter HTTPS Access

1. On the vCenter server browse to Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastrutuce\VIUpdate 4.0\SSL  (W2K8r2) and copy the rui.crt to your XenDesktop DDC(s) (and provisioning server if used)
2. Open an MMC and the Certificates snap-in to manage Certificates for the Computer Account on the XenDesktop DDC/PS(s)
3. Expand Certificates > Trusted Root Certificates > Certificates and import the trusted root certificate for the SSL certificate copied from the vCenter server in step 1. 
1. Also import the certificate to the Trusted People Store.
4. Create a host file entry or DNS entry for vmware pointing to your vCenter server
5. In the Hosting Infrastructure section when creating a desktop group on the XenDesktop DDC (or PS) when the running the XenDesktop Setup Wizard, select VMware Virtualization for the Hosting Infrastructure and enter https://youvmwareserver/sdk for the Virtual Center address.

 

 

Updated and based on this: http://jariangibson.com/2009/10/13/using-xendesktop-with-vmware/

Copy XenServer to USB for installation

 

I used XenServer version 5.6.

1. Format USB key with Fat32
2. Ubuntu comes with “syslinux” (or download it from source) http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Download
3. Type mount to see where the USB is mounted
4. Run ‘syslinux.exe /mnt/somewhere ‘ replacing with the mount point of the USB
5. Copy the contents of the extracted “XenServer-5.X.X-install-cd” folder to the root of the USB
6. On the USB drive, copy the contents of the /boot/isolinux folder to the root of the USB
7. On the root of USB drive, rename the ‘isolinux.cfg’ file to ‘syslinux.cfg’
8. On the root of USB drive, rename the ‘isolinux.bin’ file to ‘syslinux.bin’
9. If you get an “mboot.c32: not a COM32R image” error, (version 4.x of syslinux) copy the mboot.c32 from your downloaded copy of syslinux to the root of your USB drive

BPOS has lost the licences

 

Yesterday there were 3000, today 50… Lets wait and see.