Application and Desktop Virtualization
In a current customer project my job is to redesign and migrate an existing Citrix ADC environment. The responsible network administrator told me that they are having issues with the HA failover functionality since a long time. The symptoms have been looking like this: HA Failover is initiated on NS#1 NS#2 becomes the active node... Continue Reading →
In this blog post I will show you the migration process for your on-premise ShareFile Storage Zone controller including the move of the file share to a new server. There will a downtime of the ShareFile service during the migration of the files to the new share. The downtime will depend on the size of... Continue Reading →
If you are using the NVIDIA P4/P40 GPU graphic card based on the Pascal architecture you need to disable the "ECC Memory" otherwise your VMs will not power on and you will be left with the error: Could not initialize plugin '/usr/lib64/vmware/plugin/libnvidia-vgx.so' for vGPU "profile_name" Start a SSH session to your ESX host and apply... Continue Reading →
If you are using NetScaler OTP authentication on your Gateway watch out when working with SSL VPN. After creating the session profile/policy I was able to connect to the Gateway and access some of the internal ressources. Unfortunately I couldnt get a working RDP connection or access some management websites via https (custom port). I... Continue Reading →
General Deployment Methods Building a NetScaler SD-WAN Lab Network Diagram Overview Lab Infrastructure Preparations Create the virtual networks Install VyOS Routers Configure VyOS Routers Install & Configure the WAN Emulators Network Test Create the Datacenter and Branch Client Import the NetScaler SD-WAN VPX (Datacenter) Configure Management IP Address Licensing General Settings (NTP, TimeOut) Create... Continue Reading →
If you having issues that the Browser Content Redirection is not getting offloaded to your endpoint make sure that you have enabled the following settings in Internet Explorer (VDA). 1.) Internet Options > Advanced --> "Enable third-party browser extensions" (Browsing) 2.) Internet Options > Advanced --> "Disable Enhanced Protected Mode" (Security) After you have applied... Continue Reading →
Im a big fan of Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop but for some small customers (20-30 user) the licensing costs are to high and there is definitely demand for application and desktop virtualization. Thats why I came up with the idea to automate the proccess to install a native Microsoft RDS Farm with High Availability and RDS Gateway... Continue Reading →
The OTP feature which is available since NetScaler 12.0 Build 51.24 is a great feature to reduce your operationg costs or implement 2 factor authentication for the first time because your company/customer wanted to save some money instead of investing in secure remote access 🙂 If you already have configured the AAA server, schemas and... Continue Reading →
In my last project for an international customer some of the users reported that the keyboard layout was switching occasionally. In the morning the user started his published desktop and the keyboard layout was being set to French (FRA) as desired. After some hours the input language suddenly was changing to German (DE) or English... Continue Reading →
