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Xencenter / Xenserver This operation cannot be performed because the specified VDI could not be found on the storage substrate

Today i got this when i was trying to start a VDI on my Xenceter.

This operation cannot be performed because the specified VDI could not be found on the storage substrate

This was because of that i have a CDrom mounted on a CIFS shares that isn’t available anymore, after remove the ISO, the VDI start perfects again.

 

Citrix Xendesktop enable logging on VDI machines

1.     Create a new directory called e:\vdilogging\.
The Network and Local service accounts need to have write access to this folder. If you using vdisk in standard mode, remember to save it on locally harddrive.

2.     Go to c:\Program Files\Citrix\Virtual Desktop Agent\

3.     Open WorkstationAgent.exe.config with notepad

4.     Goto <appSettings>.

5.     Within the <appSettings> tag, insert the following lines:

<add key="LogToCDF" value ="1"/>
<add key="LogFileName" value ="C:\ctxlogging\vda.log"/>

6.     Then you need to restart you desktop machine