Daily Hypervisor

I’m sure many of you have run into an issue with setting up Citrix Xen Desktop (DDC). As i was setting up a new “Desktop Group” I ran into a problem when trying to configure the vCenter SDK address. The configuration wizard show you an example that looks say ‘For example, https://VirtualCetner.example.com/sdk” which is what you would expect to use and you would also expect it to work. Think again. When you try to setup your vCenter SDK address you will be presented with and error “The hosting infrastructure could not be reached at the specified address.” Citrix takes security serious so unless you plan on replacing the default SSL certificate on your vCenter server you will need to hack out a work around. Now I would agree that in production you should replace the default SSL but if your just trying to spin up a demo or test environment it can be a hassle.

So I searched the web over and over and found a number of threads with many of ways to resolve the issue only none of them seemed to work for me. However a combination of a number of things that I found did. So I’m here to save you the trouble of finding all of various pages with partial solutions. Below you will find exactly what you need to do to make this work.

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In this tough economy many companies are scrambling to virtualize to cut costs and promote a green environment.  Others would like to but with budgetary constraints and freezes they just can’t get the funding to take on a VMware virtualization initiative.  Even with the promises of ROI on their horizon once they do so it just doesn’t seem enough for some organizations.  Well I’m here to say so what, don’t let a light budget get in your way.

Start with the low hanging fruit, development, and staging machines.  Take the initiative to take advantage of these free hypervisors and save your organization some money.  Once you do reap the reward.  Keep track of how much money you just saved your organization, let everyone know, and not only will you get recognized, but you will just have gained some job security.  I’m surprised more organizations are offering cost savings initiative to hep try and curb the expenses and cut back.  Think about it, if your company offered a bonus based on savings everyone would be looking for ways to cut costs and cash in on the savings.

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