Richard Parmiter

Dell DRAC – Reset

RP — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:24:07 +0000

The Dell DRAC remote management capability often breaks in my experience, and the following can be done to reset it. SSH to the DRAC address using Putty (or a similar SSH app) Login using DRAC credentials Run the following command: racadm racreset The DRAC component will be reset and should remove any issues with it..

Move VM from Hyper-V to XenServer

RP — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:22:46 +0000

There is a way to move a virtual machine from Hyper-V to XenServer without the need for XenConvert. On Hyper-V do the following: Power off the VM Backup or migrate to a CIFS share The backup or CIFS share will include the VHD files for the hard disks (one VHD per virtual hard disk) On [...]

Wyse Xenith Configuration file

RP — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:06:42 +0000

The Wyse Xenith thin client device can be automatically configured. A DHCP entry can be configured to point the device to a url where is picks up an .ini file with the options set. Here is a sample xen.ini file: ;************************************************************************* ;* Sample INI file (rename to xen.ini) * ;* (Refer to Admin Guide for [...]

Speed up the launch of the XenDesktop Delivery Services Console (DSC)

RP — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:33:58 +0000

Sometimes the Delivery Services Console takes a long time to launch. This is due to a .NET delay in the authenticode signature component as described in Microsoft Article Q936707. The following config file can be added to speed up the lauch of the Delivery Services Console. mmc.exe.config Ensure the contents of the file contain the [...]

Use a different name for the XenDesktop Controllers Group

RP — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:51:04 +0000

During the initial instalation of XenDesktop, an Active Directory Controllers group is created and populated with the DDC servers in the farm. This group is named ‘controllers’. For any subsequent installation of XenDesktop a new controllers group is added for each XenDesktop installation with a different name based on controllers – such as ‘ControlA0D3′ If [...]