Virtual Delivery Agent VDA 7. Carl Stalhood. Navigation Recently Updated. Hardware. Hypervisor Host Hardware. Citrix Blog Post Citrix Scalability The Rule of 5 and 1. Simply take the number of physical cores in a hypervisor host, multiply it by 5 or 1. Completely-Disable-Google-Chrome-Update-Step-4-Version-4.jpg/aid1208812-v4-728px-Completely-Disable-Google-Chrome-Update-Step-4-Version-4.jpg' alt='Google Chrome Thinapp' title='Google Chrome Thinapp' />Single Server Scalability. Use 5 if youre looking for the number of Xen. Desktop VMs you can host on a box, and use 1. Xen. App user sessions you can host on a box. Google Chrome ThinappsVMware, a global leader in cloud infrastructure digital workspace technology, accelerates digital transformation for evolving IT environments. Learn More Now. Software application provisioning tools allow onetime packaging for limitless deployments and migrations across operating systems and servers. I use Outlook and Chrome RSS Feed Reader. Was that the questionDalvik is a discontinued process virtual machine VM in Googles Android operating system that executes applications written for Android. Dalvik is an integral part. Breaking Citrix, Cisco, Microsoft, VMware news relating to cloud, datacenter, desktop, IoT, mobility, security, storage virtualization. Virtual Machine Hardware. For virtual desktops, give the virtual machine 2 v. CPU and 2 GB of RAMFor Windows 2. R2 RDSH, give the virtual machine 4 v. CPU and 1. 2 2. 4 GB of RAMFor Windows 2. R2 RDSH, give the virtual machine 8 v. CPU, and 2. 4 4. GB of RAMIf using RAM caching MCSIO or Pv. S, add more RAM for the cache. Remove the floppy drive. Remove any serial or LPT ports. If v. Sphere. To reduce disk space, reserve memory. Memory reservations reduce or eliminate the virtual machine. The NIC should be VMXNET3. If this VDA will boot from Provisioning Services. Do not enable Memory Hot Plug. For v. Sphere, the NIC must be VMXNET3. For v. Sphere, configure the CD ROM to boot from IDE instead of SATA. SATA comes with VM hardware version 1. SATA wont work with Pv. S. For Windows 1. Visual Studio 2. 01. LTSB. See Visual Studio 2. Product Family System Requirements. Install the latest version of drivers e. VMware Tools. If Windows 7 on v. Sphere, dont install the VMware SVGA driver. For more details, see CTX2. Intermittent Connection FailuresBlack Screen Issues When Connecting from Multi Monitor Client Machines to Windows 7 VDA with VDA 7. SphereESXi. If v. Sphere, disable NIC Hotplug. Users could use the systray icon to Eject the Ethernet Controller. Obviously this is bad. To disable this functionality, power off the virtual machine. Once powered off, right click the virtual machine and click Edit. Settings. On the VM Options tab, expand Advanced and then click Edit Configuration. Click Add. Row. On the left, enter devices. On the right, enter false. Then click OK a couple times to close the windows. The VM can then be powered on. Windows Preparation. If RDSH, disable IE Enhanced Security Configuration in Server Manager Local Server. Optionally, go to Action Center Windows 8. R2 or Control Panel  Security and Maintenance Windows 1. User Account Control and enable Smart. Screen. Run Windows Update. Add your Citrix Administrators group to the local Administrators group on the VDA. Computer Management. The Remote Desktop Services Prompt for Password policy prevents Single Sign on to the Virtual Delivery Agent. Check registry key HKEYLOCALMACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindows NTTerminal Services. If f. Prompt. For. Password 1 then you need to fix group policy. The following GPO setting will prevent Single Sign on from working. Computer Configuration Policies Administrative Templates Windows Components Remote Desktop Services Remote Desktop Session Host Security Always prompt for password upon connection. Or set the registry value HKEYLOCALMACHINESOFTWARECitrixPortica. Auto. Logon DWORD 0x. For Windows 72. 00. R2 VDAs that will use Personal v. Disk, or App. Disk, or any other layering technology, install Microsoft hotfix 2. A computer stops responding because of a deadlock situation in the Mountmgr. This hotfix solved a Personal v. Disk Image update issue detailed at Citrix Discussions. If this VDA is Windows Server 2. R2, see http www. To remove the built in apps in Windows 1. Robin Hobo How to remove built in apps in Windows 1. Enterprise. For Remote Assistance in Citrix Director, configure the GPO setting Computer Configuration Policies Administrative Templates System Remote Assistance Offer Remote Assistance. See Jason Samuel How to setup Citrix Director Shadowing with Remote Assistance using Group Policy for more details. If you intend to use Citrixs SCOM Management Packs for Xen. AppXen. Desktop, make sure Win. RM is enabled on the VDA by running winrm quickconfig. Or you can enable Win. RM using Group Policy. Install Virtual Delivery Agent 7. For virtual desktops, make sure you are logged into the console. The VDA wont install if you are connected using RDP. Make sure. NET Framework 4. CLI Install Command Line Install Options are detailed at Install using the command line at Citrix Docs. The Citrix Telemetry Service seems to cause problems. You can use the Command Line Installer to exclude Telemetry Service as detailed at VDA upgrade cmdlet at Citrix Discussions. Xen. Desktop. VDASetup. EnableHDXPORTS enableframehawkport EnableREALTIMETRANSPORT optimize controllers xdc. Exclude Citrix Telemetry ServiceGUI Install Go to the downloaded Xen. Desktop 7. 1. 3. Auto. Select. exe. Alternatively, you can download the standalone VDA package and run that instead. Go the main Xen. Desktop 7. Expand the section labelled Components that are on the product ISO but also packaged separately to download the Standalone VDA installers. VDA installer called Desktop OS Core Services that is designed for Remote PC deployments. Click Start next to either Xen. App or Xen. Desktop. The only difference is the product name displayed in the installation wizard. Click Virtual Delivery Agent for Windows Desktop OS or Windows Server OS depending on which type of VDA you are building. In the Environment page, select Create a Master Image, and click Next. For virtual desktops, in the HDX 3. Sailor V Games here. D Pro page, click Next. In the Core Components page, if you dont need Citrix Receiver installed on your VDA, then uncheck the box. Receiver is usually only needed for double hop connections connect to 1st VDA, and then from there, connect to 2nd VDA. Click Next. In the Additional Components page, select the features. In the Delivery Controller page, select Do it manually. Enter the FQDN of each Controller. Click Test connection. And then make sure you click Add. Click Next when done. In the Features page, check boxes. In 7. 1. 2 and newer, only the top box is checked by default. If you want to use the other features, check the boxes. If this is a virtual desktop, you can leave Personal v. Disk unchecked now and enable it later. Then click Next. In the Firewall page, click Next. In the Summary page, click Install. For RDSH, click Close when you are prompted to restart. After the machine reboots twice, login and installation should continue. If you see a Local Xen. App installation media window, click Cancel. Mount the Xen. AppandXen. Desktop71. 3. iso. Run Auto. Select. Click the Virtual Desktop Agent box. Installation will continue automatically. Note NT SERVICECitrix. Telemetry. Service needs permission to login as a service. In the Call Home page, click Connect, enter your My. Citrix credentials, and then click Next. In the Finish page, click Finish to restart the machine again. Customer Experience Improvement Program CEIP  VDA 7. Customer Experience Improvement Program CEIP by default. Print Dos Program Usb Printer. To disable it, create the registry value HKEYLOCALMACHINESOFTWARECitrixTelemetryCEIPEnabled DWORD and set it to 0 zero. Also see CEIP at Citrix Insight Services at Citrix Docs. See http www. carlstalhood. CEIP is enabled. Connection Quality Indicator. The Connection Quality Indicator tells the user the quality of the connection. For example Position of the indicator is configurable by the user. Thresholds are configurable through group policy. Download it from CTX2. Connection Quality Indicator and install it. The article is very detailed. Group Policy templates are located at C Program Files x.