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Parts List For My Home Lab Server

ptsnorth — Sun, 02 May 2010 16:23:46 +0000

The hardware configuration I sought for my home lab server was a single server with 4 cores and 8 GB of RAM. All of these items were purchased at NewEgg.com for about $664, not including the shipping charges or sales tax.

Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case. Item #: N82E16811129042. Qty 1.
AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition Deneb 3.0GHz Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Processor Model HDZ940XCGIBOX. Item #: N82E16819103471. Qty 1.
CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X4096-6400C5. Item #: N82E16820145184. Qty 2 (equals 8 GB).
ASUS M4A78-EM AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 780G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard. Item #: N82E16813131384. Qty 1.
Thermaltake Purepower W0100RU 500W ATX 12V 2.0 Power Supply. Item #: N82E16817153052. Qty 1.
Western Digital Caviar Blue WD3200AAJS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive. Item #: N82E16822136098. Qty 2.

The rest of the items typically needed to build a bare-bones computer such as a CD drive, keyboard, mouse and monitor were castoff items already at hand.

This setup currently hosts 2-64-bit guest operating systems using XenServer 5.5. No compatibility problems. It’s a quiet setup and I am very happy with its speed and performance.

Finally! An Official Citrix Doc On TCP/UDP Ports

Scott — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:18:19 +0000

A 1.0 document dated August 2009. Sheesh! Anyway, if you need help in determining which ports to open for lab and firewall issues, here’s a link to the Citrix document. Don’t forget about port 3389 for your RDP connections.

Establish Configuration Logging in Presentation Server 4.5

Scott — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:46:33 +0000

Record and report all Presentation Server configuration changes. Track changes made to the Presentation Server farm, by whom and at what time to simplify and accelerate troubleshooting. Configuration Logging is invaluable for auditing and ensuring accountability when multiple administrators are maintaining Presentation Server.

A very nice how-to article provided at alsolorzano.com

To Add or Remove Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 Components

Scott — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:04:35 +0000

From the Start button, select -> Settings -> Control Panel

Select the -> Add or Remove Programs applet

Fromthe list of Currently install programs: click once on Citrix Presentation Server For Windows and click the -> Change button.

Make the changes you need.

Citrix PS 4.5 Enterprise — Error 10001

ptsnorth — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:03:55 +0000

It turns out my encounter with this error was due to a “bad” install of .NET 2.0. I could not perform a security update of .NET 2.0. I ignored the security update error and proceeded to perform the Citrix PS 4.5 install. Near the end of the Citrix server component installation, the installer began uninstalling all of the PS 4.5 server software components. The Citrix error returned after the uninstall was 10001.

In my earlier blog post I described how I uninstalled and reinstalled .NET 2.0 (a requirement for PS 4.5). After I reinstalled and patched .NET 2.0 I was able to perform a satisfactory PS 4.5 server installation.

Hardware Requirements for SQL Server 2005 Express

ptsnorth — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:34:00 +0000

Processor — A minimum of a 600-MHz processor is required and a 1-GHz processor is recommended.
RAM — A minimum of 256 MB of RAM is required and 512 MB of RAM is recommended.
Disk Space — A minimum of 170 MB of free disk space is required, with the Microsoft .NET Framework V2.0 as a prerequisite.

Upgrading MSDE 2000 to SQL Server 2005 Express

VMware: Best Practices For Deploying Citrix on ESX

ptsnorth — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:16:36 +0000

A nice outline of best practices for installing Citrix in a VMWare environment. Test and dev labs.

Virtrix – Virtual Tricks: VMware: Best practices for deploying Citrix on ESX

Citrix Product Sale and EOL Support Dates

ptsnorth — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:36:16 +0000

Comprehensive matrix indicating the date that each product will no longer be generally available for purchase and the end of life date for product support.

Citrix » Citrix Product Matrix Table

Terminal Services – Enable User Environment Debug Logging

ptsnorth — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:10:24 +0000

Microsoft article on how to enable debugging for Terminal Service sessions and Citrix – Win2k and Win2k3.

How to enable user environment debug logging in retail builds of Windows

CitrixTools.com

ptsnorth — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:12:43 +0000

A source for tools, scripts, vbscripts, etc. that may make your life as a Citrix / Terminal Server administrator a little easier

CitrixTools.com

Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 Farm – TCP/IP Port Numbers

ptsnorth — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:07:32 +0000

Ports 3268 (TCP/UDP) and 3269 (TCP/UDP) – Citrix PS 4 farm servers communicating with Active Directory domain controllers – AD Global Catalog.
Port 135 (TCP/UDP) – Citrix PS 4 farm servers communicating with the Microsoft Windows 2003 Terminal Server licensing server.
Port 27000 (TCP) + Random Port number – Citrix PS 4 servers communicating with Citrix License server. There are two licensing services on the Citrix license server; Port 27000 is listened to by the License Manager Daemon (service) while the Citrix Vendor Daemon (service) chooses to listen on a random available port during the license server’s startup.
Port 1433 (TCP/UDP) – Citrix PS 4 farm servers communicating with ODBC Datastore server for published application and server configuration.
Port 2512 (TCP/UDP) – Citrix PS 4 farm servers communicating with one another and for relaying load information to the designated Zone Data Collector. This port is also used by Zone Data Collectors in different zones, in the same farm, to keep each other updated on changes to the farm. This is the port number the Independent Management Architecture (IMA) windows service is associated with.
Port 2513 (TCP/UDP) – Citrix Management console to server communication.
Ports 1494 (TCP/UDP) and 2598 (TCP/UDP) – Citrix client to server farm on port 1494 ICA listener. When session reliability is enabled on the server farm, 1494 traffic is wrapped inside port 2598.
Port 80 (TCP) – TCP+HTTP (XML) browsing by Citrix client for servers or published applications.
Port 443 (TCP) – SSL+HTTPS browsing and secure connections by client for servers or published applications.
Port 8082 (TCP) – Citrix License server management console between remote admin and Citrix license server.

Additional Reference: http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers