13 Jun 2012
By Yendis

Explaining and Troubleshooting Write Cache Disk Drive Letter Assignment

Citrix,
This blog explains the process involved on drive letter assignments for target devices and how to troubleshoot write cache drive letter changes. Mount Manager is the component responsible for managing volume names and drive letter assignments on windows. It has a database that is recorded on the registry under the HKLM/SYSTEM/MountedDevices key. When a new disk is installed on the system, the Mount Manager Creates a new unique ID for the disk and saves it into the registry with the "??Volume{GUID} naming scheme, this is unique and persistent for this system. If the disk is plugged on another system, a new…
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08 Jun 2012
By Yendis

Simplify your XenAppXenDesktop with DNS aliases

Citrix, VMware,
You can see this recommendation in few of our recent best practices – most recently in the excellent “XenDesktop and XenApp Best Practices document”: “The XenDesktop and XenApp servers should be configured to use DNS Aliases when accessinginfrastructure components such as the Citrix License Server and Database Server(s) rather than hostname or IP address. This helps to simplify management during certain maintenance and disaster recovery scenarios.” But what does it exactly mean and how should it be configured? I’m following this best practice for many years and I would like to share few information about how to use it and what are the…
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