At this stage, the VDA will return a list of applications that can be published from the machines. If not displayed in this list, you can add applications manually however most installed applications i. Office will appear for selection.
I will publish Calculator and Notepad and click Next. Give a name to your Delivery Group and an optional label which will be used in Receiver. Then click Finish. I need some recommendations if I should create one Machine catalogue form Cluster hosting resource? I see that here there are two machines added within a single catalog and at the time of publishing the application, how VDA will list the applications for publishing, does it combines application from both the machines or how does it segregate?
Why do we need two machines within a single catalog for publishing a single application which is on a single VDA machine? I have Machine Catalogs with VDAs that run different images, but it is at the Delivery Group level that generally machines that operate from the same image are kept together. One for Chrome and one for Firefox. It is also possible to have a single Delivery Group and use tags to restrict application launches to particular machines. It is not my first time to pay a visit this web site, i am visiting this site dailly and get good data from here all the time.
Hi, I want to know if it is a best practice to assign one delivery group per application. The servers are all the same. They contains all the applications we need to run. For example we need to put in maintenance one application for upgrade needs while maintanining the others accesible. If you have no reason, and there is no vendor reason to have the apps on dedicated VDAs, I suggest having the single Delivery Group and then you can place servers in Maintenance Mode whenever they are receiving an application upgrade, or use tags.
Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Machine Catalogs — Contain a number of machines that a Delivery Group will utilise to deliver applications and desktops. Calculate space to include overhead for:. Creating a catalog, adding a machine, and updating a catalog have unique storage implications. Updating the write cache method from disk-based to file-based requires the following changes:.
When creating a machine catalog, the administrator can configure the RAM and disk size as follows:. With the MCS storage optimization feature enabled, you can do the following when creating a catalog:. Select the storage type for the write-back cache disk. The following storage types are available to use for the write-back cache disk:. LRS makes multiple synchronous copies of your disk data within a single data center. For details about Azure storage types and storage replication, see the following:.
If you want to provision machines using a persistent write-back cache disk for an on-premises solution for example, Citrix Hypervisor PowerShell is not needed because the disk persists automatically. This parameter supports an extra property, PersistWBC , used to determine how the write-back cache disk persists for MCS provisioned machines.
You can choose to persist the disk to avoid the deletion and recreation of MCSIO write-back cache disk. When using these properties, consider that they contain default values if the properties are omitted from the CustomProperties parameter. The PersistWBC property has two possible values: true or false. Setting the PersistWBC property to true does not delete the write-back cache disk when the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops administrator shuts down the machine from the management interface.
Setting the PersistWBC property to false deletes the write-back cache disk when the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops administrator shuts down the machine from the management interface. If the PersistWBC property is omitted, the property defaults to false and the write-back cache is deleted when the machine is shutdown from the management interface.
Attempting to alter the CustomProperties of a provisioning scheme after creation has no impact on the machine catalog and the persistence of the write-back cache disk when a machine is shut down. Options associated with New-ProvScheme include:.
To enable this feature, set the PersistOSDisk custom property to true. The master image contains the operating system, non-virtualized applications, VDA, and other software. Then select Create Machine Catalog. The wizard walks you through the pages described below. The pages you see may differ, depending on the selections you make, and the connection to a host you use. The Machine Management page indicates how machines are managed and which tool you use to deploy machines.
Choose if machines in the catalog will be power managed through the Full Configuration interface. If you indicated that machines are power managed through the Full Configuration interface or provisioned through a cloud environment, choose which tool to use to create VMs. The Desktop Experience page determines what occurs each time a user logs on.
Select one of:. Select the connection to the host hypervisor or cloud service, and then select the snapshot or VM created earlier. Do not change the default minimum VDA version selection. To enable use of the latest product features, ensure that the master image has the latest VDA version installed.
An error message appears if you select a snapshot or VM that is not compatible with the machine management technology you selected earlier in the wizard.
When you are using a cloud service or platform to host VMs, the catalog creation wizard may contain extra pages specific to that host. For example, when using an Azure Resource Manager master image, the catalog creation wizard contains a Storage and License Types page. For host-specific information, follow the appropriate link listed in Start creating the catalog.
Add or import a list of Active Directory machine account names. If you specified static machines on the Desktop Experience wizard page, you can optionally specify the Active Directory user name for each VM you add. After you add or import names, you can use the Remove button to delete names from the list, while you are still on this wizard page. An icon and tooltip for each machine added or imported help identify machines that might not be eligible to add to the catalog, or be unable to register with a Cloud Connector.
The copy mode you specify on the Machines page determines whether MCS creates thin fast copy or thick full copy clones from the master image. Caching temporary data locally on the VM is optional. You can enable use of the temporary data cache on the machine when you use MCS to manage pooled not dedicated machines in a catalog. If the catalog uses a connection that specifies storage for temporary data, you can enable and configure the temporary data cache information when you create the catalog.
To enable the caching of temporary data, the VDA on each machine in the catalog must be minimum version 7. Installing this driver is an option when you install or upgrade a VDA. By default, that driver is not installed. You specify whether temporary data uses shared or local storage when you create the connection that the catalog uses.
For details, see Connections and resources. Enabling and configuring the temporary cache in the catalog includes two check boxes and values: Memory allocated to cache MB and Disk cache size GB. By default, these check boxes are cleared. When you enable one or both check boxes, the default values differ according to the connection type.
Generally, the default values are sufficient for most cases; however, take into account the space needed for:. If you enable the Disk cache size check box, temporary data is initially written to the memory cache.
When the memory cache reaches its configured limit the Memory allocated to cache value , the oldest data is moved to the temporary data cache disk. The memory cache is part of the total amount of memory on each machine; therefore, if you enable the Memory allocated to cache check box, consider increasing the total amount of memory on each machine. If you clear the Memory allocated to cache check box and leave the Disk cache size check box enabled, temporary data is written directly to the cache disk, using a minimal amount of memory cache.
Changing the Disk cache siz e from its default value can affect performance. The size must match user requirements and the load placed on the machine. If you clear the Disk cache size check box, no cache disk is created. In this case, specify a Memory allocated to cache value that is large enough to hold all of the temporary data.
If you clear both check boxes, temporary data is not cached. It is written to the difference disk located in the OS storage for each VM. This is the provisioning action in releases earlier than 7. If you use the Full Configuration management interface, you can bulk add machines by using CSV files.
The feature is available to all catalogs except catalogs created through MCS. The Add Machines in Bulk window appears. If you plan to use multiple NICs, associate a virtual network with each card. For example, you can assign one card to access a specific secure network, and another card to access a more commonly used network. You can also add or remove NICs from this page. Specify the Active Directory machine accounts or Organizational Units OUs to add that correspond to users or user groups.
You can choose a previously configured power management connection or elect not to use power management. Each machine in the catalog must have a unique identity. This page lets you configure identities for machines in the catalog. The machines are joined to the identity after they are provisioned. You cannot change the identity type after you create the catalog. On-premises Active Directory. Machines owned by an organization and signed into with an Active Directory account that belongs to that organization.
They exist on-premises. If you create accounts, you must have permission to create computer accounts in the OU where the machines reside. If you use existing accounts, browse to the accounts or click Import and specify a. On the Applications page of the Create Delivery Group wizard, From start menu reads icons from a machine in the Delivery Group and lets you select them.
Manually lets you enter file path and other details manually. These are the same as in prior releases. Existing is the new option. This lets you easily publish applications across multiple Delivery Groups. You can also go to the Applications node, edit an existing application, change to the Groups tab, and publish the existing app across additional Delivery Groups.
Once multiple Delivery Groups are selected, you can prioritize them by clicking the Edit Priority button. On the Desktops page of the Create Delivery Group wizard, you can now publish multiple desktops from a single Delivery Group.
Each desktop can be named differently. And you can restrict access to the published desktop. To publish apps and desktops across a subset of machines in a Delivery Group, see Tags. This feature is configured using PowerShell. If too many instances are launched, the user sees Cannot start desktop in StoreFront. To revert to unlimited instances of the published desktop, set MaxPerEntitlementInstances to 0.
This means you can publish icons from a subset of the machines in the Delivery Group, just like you could in XenApp 6. Tags also allow different machines to have different restart schedules. Alternatively, you can use the 7. From Configure session roaming at Citrix Docs: By default, users can only have one session. On XenApp 7. On any Server OS delivery group, run:. It is sometimes useful e. Sacha Thomet wrote a script at victim of a good reputation — Low free pooled XenDesktops that polls Director to determine the number of free desktops in a Delivery Group.
If lower than the threshold, an email is sent. I am getting error can not start your desktop after my vCenter goes down.
Restoring the vCenter from backup taking time. Is there any workaround to fix this issue? We have created image from AppLayering. While creating Win machine catalog it succeeded however with 2 warnings, 1. Image preparation failed to rearm the copy of Microsoft Office installed on the master image.
Image preparation failed to rearm the copy of Windows installed on the master image. Can you please suggest how to mitigate this? If excluding these rearms then where to run the commands on VDA master image? I am looking for a way to export Delivery Groups from one farm 7. Hello Carl, do you know if there is a way to increase the size of the MCS cache drive without tearing down the catalog and rebuilding it?
How is the performance of that method? All IOPS go to storage. If storage can handle it, then great. The idea of caching is to offload IOPS from the storage array. Currently we have 7. Are they full clones?
Or are they fast clones aka linked clones? Full clones can be moved to different storage but linked clones usually cannot. You can convert fast clones to full clones by cloning each of the fast clones to a new VM and then adding them to a Manual Catalog.
Hi Carl. Do you know how to upgrade delivery controllers when there are multiple zones? Should I upgrade the delivery controllers in the primary zone first and then satellite zone second or vice versa? Hi, Carl. Thank you. When creating a Delivery Group, it asks you to add unassigned machines from a Catalog.
We would need to start providing our end users ipv6 apps and desktops along with our existing ipv4 apps and desktops. Is the VM on the same cluster and same storage as the Hosting Resource?
When you published the image, did you clone a template? If so, did the template have a hypervisor attribute called XdConfig? XdConfig should not be there. Remove that attribute. Is there a way to restrict these using Tags via powershell as there is no opton in the GUI to restrict with tags? Is it possible to increase the number of updates at the same time? We have requirement to evergreen a project. All the delivery controllers, Storefront and Director should be newly built in a site and data should be exported from Windows R2 7.
Is there any script available to export the complete data from existing to new site?? Data is machine catalog, Delivery group, delegated administrators, applications. Then import in the farm. No Remote PC option for this phase. We believe we can get up to 10 users maximum per VDA but to support users I am not certain of how much the total memory size would be along with the Memory allocated and disk cache size. This is going to use MCS and are on version 7.
They are Dell r Xeon Gold 2 sockets 14 cores per socket with Gb per each in memory. Can you see the MCS cache settings as too much or aligns with a best practice? We will be doing some testing but curious on thoughts on this config? DHCP can run on anywhere. Infoblox is a common DHCP server. We want to assign a group specific delegated access in Citrix Studio to update machines defined in their Scope only.
Hopefully that makes sense what I am trying to describe. We have a powershell script that will get the name of the Machine Catalog and supply the master VM to reference so it can create the snapshot to apply to the catalog.
You can also create a custom Role with just the Perform Machine Update permission. I think I need to figure out how to make the JEA session connect with the real account. We had to change the language setting from NoLanguage to ConstrainedLanguage and then allow very specific cmdlets so that a user can only perform Citrix commands and not get information about the controller they are connected to try to elevate within the session.
Update on this. There are extra permissions in the default groups that are not present when creating a custom role. This was the only way to get those special permissions in the new role so they will work. HI, we have a group delivering MCS created desktops. How does the controller dermine which VDI is allocated when a user makes a request? The reason im asking is that it seems to allocated the most recent VDI to start up rather that one that has been up and registered for some time? The user then experiences slower preformace as AV etc kicks in.
When working within our Citrix Studio 7. What would be the cause for that? Otherwise, you might have to script it. We have 2 Zones, one Primary default and one Secondary. When the Citrix VDAs in the primary zone goes down, we want to failover to the secondary zone. If there are no issues in the primary zone, then users should not be allowed to connect to the VDAs in the secondary zone — as the secondary zone is on a slower WAN link.
We basically want an Active Passive setup. Each machine catalog belongs to the same Delivery Group. Only users that are part of this AD group can have access the secondary zone resources. The MCS master image is replicated to the secondary zone by Veeam. The replica is then used to create MCS nodes for the machine catalog in the secondary zone. They are able to talk to the delivery controllers in the secondary zone just fine, however, they also pickup the delivery controllers from the primary zone as well unsure if this is an issue or not.
This works fine. Every time we perform a test, we make sure to logout and login of storefront. If you are publishing applications not desktop , then you can split your Catalogs into separate Delivery Groups and publish the app to both Delivery Groups.
We are also in similar issue. If we split into multiple farms or sites, then how we should be able to configure the UPM via gpo. Hopefully that would be given as a same profile path across both sites.. Any insights!! It is not supported to do any multi-master replication of user profiles. After a failover, you can manually change the DFS Namespace configuration.
Hi Carl, in 7. These servers have the Nutanix AHV plugin. For full clones, is there a difference when using mcs full clone option or another service or technology? You might have to contact Nutanix since they wrote the plug-in. The third option is for manually built machines that were not created using MCS.
Spin up a catalog from a template machine, note the mac addresses , reserve IPs for these macs and then boot? Secondly if I want to create a site across two datacenters for active -active DR. Is it best practice to create two host connections -one for each datacenter- and then create a machine catalog for each connection, then create one delivery group with half its machines from each of those catalogs? I assume connections will be balanced across all servers but if I lose a DC I am still up?
My preferred multi-datacenter design is separate farms in each datacenter with StoreFront aggregating icons from both farms. This gives me maximum control over how users connect. Your method might be OK for multiple datacenters in the same metro. We use a LAPS technology to reset local admin password, should there be a issue with full clone or xenapp? Is it worth excluding laps for these desktops? We are using a MCS persistent machine catalog. The issue is that we have machines that fail their domain trust from time to time.
The fix is to log on locally and add it back to the domain. Any help would be appreciated. MCS manages the machine accounts and their passwords. Password changing should not be disabled for deployed machines, but it is not a bad idea to disable it for the golden image to avoid issues when bouncing between snapshots. Make sure nothing else is touching these computer accounts.
You could turn on auditing for the specific accounts or containing OU to track what else could be affecuaff this. We are having the same issue with persistent machines, using the current release 7.
MBR will certainly work. HI Carl — regarding the 16MB identity disks Citrix does this by design right and poses no impact at all? Are you asking if Windows will somehow fill up the drive? The drive is mounted without a drive letter. Hi Carl, you mention the rewrite action for the zone preference and have the screenshot for the action what about the rewrite policy what should that look like? Then you have to add them to a Catalog in the DR site.
Hi Carl, do you know if we can set a prefered zone for a published desktop like for applications? Appreciate your help. I am trying to find a solution to this exact same customer requirement. They want Active Active but want to fill up Zone 1 first, then if no desktops left only then send them to Zone 2. Dual Site same as you Ben.
I havent yet found a solutions to this!. Any ideas anyone or did you find a solution Ben? I have tried configuring 2 Catalogs in seperate zones, but of course you have to then have 2 Delivery groups as you cant have desktops from 2 different catalogs in the same delivery group?.
The customer wants to see only 1 desktop published but where they go is seemless to them and ONLY if site 1 has no more desktops!. Ignore this I managed to find a solution to their problem. You need to create the Delivery Group first, then go back in and select. Silly really you would think it would allow you to select from both while creating.
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