This is a collection of tips I’ve collected (from various sources) over time for running Citrix on an ESX virtual machine. I currently use all of these items in my environment.
Use Windows Server 2003 or 2008. Do not use Windows 2000!
Start with one vCPU. You may need a second, depending on your environment.
Specify the correct HAL (single processor or multiprocessor) [...]
Trying to install ESX 3.X on a new server with greater than 64GB of RAM? Then you’ve probably run into a problem. When looking at the host summary in VC, a host with no VMs on it will appear to be utilizing almost 50% of it’s available RAM! This bug was supposedly fixed via patch, but if [...]
Along the way you might run into a P2V (or need to build a new VM) that will host an application which has a license attached to it’s NIC. In order to do this, you generally need to provide the software vendor the MAC address to your VM. That being said, it’s important to ensure [...]
When failing over from a production site to a DR site, the datastores that are mounted on the ESX hosts at your DR site are named using the “snap-xxxxxxx-NAME” naming convention by default.
Per this thread, this was not this way in the SRM beta, but was changed for the GA release so folks would be [...]
Recently, I had an opportunity to install and configure SRM in a test lab, as part of a project related to a datacenter move. VMware Site Recovery Manager is THE tool to utilize when you’re looking to create an automated solution for disaster recovery. One great thing about SRM is that it can be used [...]
vmware.info has posted a really nice flash simulator for setting up Fault Tolerance in vSphere. This simulation gives you a great idea of how to configure and test the Fault Tolerance feature if you aren’t running vSphere in your lab. I’ll go more into what Fault Tolerance is, and how to use it in future posts. Until then, Check [...]
