Posted on June 14th, 2009 by by Steve
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) [...]
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Tags: Citrix, citrix servers, Disable, environment, esx, HAL, increase memory, Memory, parallel ports, performance logs, Split, tiered storage strategy, Tools, Use, V Citrix, virtual machine, VMware, vmware tools, Windows
Posted on June 7th, 2009 by by Steve
Something I’ve known the benefits of for a while, but didn’t actually make part of my standard ESX build until fairly recently, is increasing the service console memory during install to 800MB. Out of the box, VMware has given (in both ESX 3.X and vSphere) the service console 272MB of memory. This may be fine [...]
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Tags: Best Practice, esx, Memory, Service Console, vSphere
