Building Webster’s Lab V2.1
On September 9, 2019, I published the Building Webster's Lab V1 article series that used vSphere/vCenter 6.7 U3 and XenServer 8.0. On May 24, 2021, I published the Building Webster's…
Building Webster’s Lab V2 PDF
I spent 688 hours on the article series and another 50 hours getting this PDF edited and created. Along the way, Grammarly kept finding issues to correct. All the corrections…
20 Building Webster’s Lab V2 – Create a Management Computer
[Updated 8-Nov-2021] The next step is to create a management computer from the Windows 10 template with the additional servers built and configured. We use the VM built in this…
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19 Building Webster’s Lab V2 – Create Additional Servers
[Updated 8-Nov-2021] With the base of the Vmware infrastructure, Active Directory (AD), Certification Authority (CA), and Group Policy (GPO) built, the next step is to create additional server VMs from…
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18 Building Webster’s Lab V2 – Additional XenCenter Configuration
Before getting to work adding Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (CVAD) and VMware Horizon to the lab, a few additional items are on the XenCenter to-do list. Update DNS server…
13 Building Webster’s Lab V2 – Create VMs from the Server 2019 Template
[Updated 28-Aug-2021] With the Server 2019 template created, the next step is to create VMs from the template. We use the VMs built in this article for the first three…
12 Building Webster’s Lab V2 – Create a Server 2019 Template Image
[Updated 28-Aug-2021] With both VMware vSphere and vCenter and Citrix XenServer and XenCenter installed and basic configuration completed, the next step is to create a Windows Server 2019 master image.…
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11 Building Webster’s Lab V2 – Citrix XenServer Host and Pool Configuration
[Updated 8-Nov-2021] Now that you have installed the XenServer host, the host's configuration can begin. As stated in the Introduction article, Citrix uses XenCenter to manage one or more XenServer…
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10 Building Webster’s Lab V2 – Install Citrix XenServer 8.2
[Updated 8-Nov-2021] Installing Citrix Hypervisor (XenServer) 8.2 is easy as there are not many options. It is almost a "Next, Next, Install, Finish, Reboot" process. The first thing is to…
02 Building Webster’s Lab V2 – Configuring a Synology 1817+ NAS for NFS, ESXi 7.0, and XenServer 8.2
[Updated 27-Aug-2021] In the "Introduction" article, I made the following statements: I decided to go with Network File System (NFS) instead of Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) for storage.…
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01 Building Webster’s Lab V2 – Introduction
[Updated 8-Nov-2021] On September 9, 2019, I published the Building Webster's Lab V1 article series that used vSphere/vCenter 6.7 U3 and XenServer 8.0. This is a follow-up series on building…
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How to Automate Enabling PVS-Accelerator on Citrix Provisioning Target Devices
Recently, in one of the Slack Workspaces I am part of, someone asked how to enable PVS-Accelerator on numerous Citrix Provisioning (PVS) target devices. I wrote this article to explain how I came up with a Proof of Concept (PoC) script.
10 Building Webster’s Lab V1 – Citrix XenServer Host and Pool Configuration
Now that you have installed the XenServer host, the host's configuration can begin. As stated in the Introduction article, Citrix uses XenCenter to manage one or more XenServer hosts. The…
09 Building Webster’s Lab V1 – Install Citrix XenServer 8.0
Installing Citrix XenServer 8.0 is easy as there are not many options. It is almost a "Next, Next, Install, Finish, Reboot" process. The first thing is to download the latest…
02 Building Webster’s Lab V1 – Configuring a Synology 1817+ NAS for NFS, ESXi 6.7, and XenServer 8.0
Updated 21-Dec-2019 In the "Introduction" article, I made the following statements: For storage, I decided to go with Network File System (NFS) instead of Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI).…
01 Building Webster’s Lab V1 – Introduction
Updated 12-Dec-2019 I started work on rebuilding my lab in June 2018, and then life happened. During the 2019 New Year's holiday break, I finally got back to working on…
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XenServer Ghost Devices Woes
As you may recall from my previous article, XenServer and HP Firmware Woes, I was involved in a rather large XenServer upgrade project. Anyone that has done some XenServer updates/upgrades surely has…
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XenServer and HP Firmware Woes
It's a virtual world nowadays. But sometimes, even in a virtual world, physical problems can be a real pain. Recently I was involved in upgrading/migrating an outdated XenServer 6.0 setup,…
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Adding an SSD Storage Device to Citrix XenServer
[Update 26Mar2019. See Updated section below.] Note: This still works for XenServer 8.2 In the process of creating Virtual Machines (VMs) for labs for a customer, I needed to have…
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What is “Citrix”?
The first question usually asked by the Accidental Citrix Admin is "what is citrix?". There are two ways the term "citrix" is used: as a specific product or as the name of a company which provides that product. Usually when "citrix" is mentioned, the term is referring to software used to allow multiple user access to one or more applications hosted on another computer (normally a server).