P2V using VMWare convert version 4.2

I was working with XenDesktop where I was suppose to import physical desktop and convert that as a gold image. I install VMWare converter on my laptop and connected to the Virtual Center Server . Once it is connected I can find that under plugin  manager the version shows as 4.2

Right click on the host and select

 

It will pop up and ask for all the relevant information

Make sure that if you are importing XP machine you should install Converter agent on it or else it will not detect it.

Coming to real cool feature which was not there with earlier version of VMWare convertor . You can edit only certain settings with earlier version but here you have lot many option .

The one which is new is “Synchronize Changes that occur to the source during cloning” . This would be very helpful when we are doing conversion for openfiles.

Now it also have feature where you can stop and start service at source and destination

 

This is other new feature which ahs been added.

Once it says finish , the jobs are submitted and rest all you can follow my previous blog for post P2V conversion

Virtual Center 4.1 on a dual homed server

When you have dual NIC and your virtual center server is dual homed . You need to make sure that IP which will be assigned to virtual center should be updated under Managed IP address

 

How to create VM from snapshot on XenServer 5.6

XenServer gives you feature to create VM from Snapshot. In order to do that right click on snapshot on snapshot window

Then it will list the snapshots under template . Select the correct snapshot and proceed

Choose the  name for the  virtual  machine

Select DVD drive and then empty because you don’t need any media to install this

Select the home server for this VM. In my case I just have one XenServer

 

This indeed gives you option to choose number of CPU and Memory

Choose location for disk to be stored. In my case it just have local drive

 

Supply network information . In my case it just have only one NIC card

 

Check the summary before you finish button

Here is your virtual machine up and running from snapshot. This looks cool to me since I did not find anywhere that you can create VM from snapshot.

Product: Citrix Pool Management -- Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package

During the installation of Citrix XenDesktop 4.0 on windows  2003 R2 64 bit , setup will fail

and “Citrix Desktop Delivery Controller Install Log.txt” will have following log entries.

“MSI (s) (E0:40) [15:49:45:742]: Product: Citrix Pool Management -- Error 1722. There is a problem with this Windows Installer package. A program run as part of the setup did not finish as expected. Contact your support personnel or package vendor. Action CA_ConfigureExternalStoreACL, location: C:\Program Files (x86)\Citrix\VmManagement\CdsPoolMgr.exe, command: /install

MSI (s) (E0:40) [15:49:45:742]: User policy value 'DisableRollback' is 0
MSI (s) (E0:40) [15:49:45:742]: Machine policy value 'DisableRollback' is 0
Action ended 15:49:45: InstallFinalize. Return value 3.
MSI (s) (E0:40) [15:49:45:742]: Executing op: Header(Signature=1397708873,Version=301,Timestamp=1026915895,LangId=1033,Platform=0,ScriptType=2,ScriptMajorVersion=21,ScriptMinorVersion=4,ScriptAttributes=3)
MSI (s) (E0:40) [15:49:45:742]: Executing op: DialogInfo(Type=0,Argument=1033)
MSI (s) (E0:40) [15:49:45:742]: Executing op: DialogInfo(Type=1,Argument=Citrix Pool Management)
MSI (s) (E0:40) [15:49:45:742]: Executing op: RollbackInfo(,RollbackAction=Rollback,RollbackDescription=Rolling back action:,RollbackTemplate=[1],CleanupAction=RollbackCleanup,CleanupDescription=Removing backup files,CleanupTemplate=File: [1])
MSI (s) (E0:40) [15:49:45:742]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=CA_ConfigureExternalStoreACL,,)
MSI (s) (E0:40) [15:49:45:742]: Executing op: ProductInfo(ProductKey={636C274D-95AB-44AC-A226-1584E8B59DB6},ProductName=Citrix Pool Management,PackageName=PoolManagementService.msi,Language=1033,Version=67113386,Assignment=1,ObsoleteArg=0,ProductIcon=ProductIcon,PackageMediaPath=\x64\en\Citrix Desktop Delivery Controller\,PackageCode={48BA66C0-3B83-44B9-91B7-86F4DEE73164},,,InstanceType=0,LUASetting=0,RemoteURTInstalls=0)
MSI (s) (E0:40) [15:49:45:742]: Executing op: ActionStart(Name=InstallServices,Description=Installing new services,Template=Service: [2])”

 

This is because you have following installed

 

Uninstall “Windows Server 2003 Service Pack2 Admin tools pack” and then Citrix DDC setup will finish successfully . After that you can reinstall Admin pack.

Change Web Interface setting to pre-populate domain name

When you lunch web interface you find that domain name needs to be typed . This can be pre populated.

To make changes , right click on website and select Authentication methods

Select the properties of  method to make changes

 

Select settings under Authentication Type

Here you select as pre populated and add the domain name.

When you lunch WI next time you will find domain name there

Enable and disable Desktop viewer for XenDesktop

When you lunch desktop you will get desktop viewer . This allows you to minimize XenDesktop hosted desktop an use regular desktop. This can be disable or enabled

 

By default it will be enabled . To enable it look for default.ica in a folder used by desktop WI on a WI server. Edit that file and check for the value

ConnectionBar=1

Also there a webinterface.conf and you will find a setting  “ShowDesktopViewer” .This should be set to “=On”

Following combination work for DesktopViwer on WI

 

ConnectionBar=0 & ShowDesktopViewer=On - XD task bar is not showing
ConnectionBar=1 & ShowDesktopViewer=On - XD task bar is showing
ConnectionBar=0 & ShowDesktopViewer=Off - XD task bar is not showing
ConnectionBar=1 & ShowDesktopViewer=Off - XD task bar is showing

Change Citrix XenDesktop edition from command line

If you have installed XenDesktop as Platinum edition and need to change the edition , you dont need to uninstall . You can change the edition type from command line as shown below

Administrator level privileges are required to configure Citrix XML service

When you try to configure Citrix XML service you may get message “Administrator level privileges are required to configure Citrix XML service”

Make sure you run it without any space as show above.