Citrix Stage Manager Release Notes

Citrix Stage Manager Release Notes 

Version 1.1



Version: 1.1 

Copyright and Trademark Notice 

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Contents 

Contents 

1 Introduction to Citrix Stage Manager 4 

2 Updated Features and Bug fixes 5 

3 Known Issues 6 

4 License 8 

5 Credits 9 

Citrix Systems, Inc. 3

Chapter 1 Introduction to Citrix Stage Manager 

Introduction to Citrix Stage Manager 1 

This chapter provides an introduction to the Stage Manager and gives an overview on the Stage 

Manager installation process. 

Stage Manager manages virtual machines on Citrix XenServer. With its ability to pool server, network 

and storage resources, and move live virtual machines across physical resources with zero user 

impact, Stage Manager accelerates change and release management. It simplifies the application 

release process with its ability to clone a multi-tier production application in minutes rather than 

rebuilding separate configurations in each release phase. 

Citrix Stage Manager automates the management and deployment of multi-tier application 

environments and other IT services from staging to production. It helps IT operations engineers create 

customizable staging workflows for the applications and efficiently streamlines the staging process 

across all phases of the release process. 

Furthermore, it provides powerful IT administration and access control capabilities over the staging 

process. Stage Manager improves the reliability of pre-production process by reducing the risk of 

downtime, server sprawl, and configuration drifts. To understand the Stage Manager user interface, 

see the Citrix Stage Manager User Guide. It gives a complete description of the product. 



Updated Features and Bug fixes 2 

Updated Features 

· Support for XenServer 5.6 only 

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Chapter 3 Known Issues 

Known Issues 3 

· For this release only ASCII input is supported. 

· Does not support the migration of the saved job. Always undeploy(poweroff) and then migrate. 

· Upgrade from a beta release is not supported 

· Anti-virus software may give false warnings about VMAgent scripts. 

· Stage Manager does not support virtual machines without NICs. 

· Total storage space shown in Stage Manager for XenServer-pool-storage includes the shared NFS 

storage and individual storages (ext-type only) of the hosts in the pool. In case of ext-type local 

storage on XenServer hosts in a pool, Stage Manager can generate false warning thresholds. If 

you have LVM type local storage, Stage Manager calculates the shared NFS storage only. 

· Sometimes a 'session invalid' error is noticed while deploying the VMs. You can retry this 

operation. 

· When Virtual Switch information for Public Networks gets changed in Stage Manager, you need to 

perform an Edit and Save for all configurations that are using that public network. 

· SM GuestTools does not work on Windows 7 because of SID incompatibility. 

· Windows 7 VM failed to launch in IPZone in some cases. 

· Uninstall operation leaves blank folders in AppData under UAC. 

· Installers does not install on Windows with UAC off and non-admin user. 

· MSI installers work only with operating systems on MSI3 format. 

· Windows 7 and windows 2008 server with UAC off and non-admin user, installers error out. 

XenServer specific issues 

· Export of a Suspended Templates in XenServer 5.6 throws error.(XenServer 5.6 does not support 

export of a suspended image) 

· While running jobs in IPZones with Windows Vista and Windows 2008 Server VM, Xen-tools may 

cause bad checksum for UDP packets sent for DHCP IP request to the router. So, it is 

recommended to disable the 'checksum offloading' on the network adaptor after installing the 

Xen-tools. 



· The suspend machine-roles operations give error for VMs with old PV-drivers. Therefore, it is 

recommended to have the latest 'xen-tools' installed in the VMs. 

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Chapter 4 License 

License 4 

CITRIX(R) LICENSE AGREEMENT 

Use of this component is subject to the Citrix license covering the Citrix product(s) with which you will 

be using this component. This component is only licensed for use with such Citrix product(s). 

CTX_code: EP_R_A32490 



Credits 5 

This product includes software developed by 

· Python Software Foundation http://www.python.org/psf/ 

· Twisted Matrix Laboratories (& contributors) http://twistedmatrix.com/ 

· Zope Corporation and Contributors http://www.zope.org/Products/ZopeInterface 

· Colin Stewart http://www.owlfish.com/software/wsgiutils/ 

· Python Software Foundation http://svn.eby-sarna.com/wsgiref/ 

· Trent Mick http://www.python.net/crew/tmick/ 

· Python Software Foundation https://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/ 

· Ian Ward http://excess.org/ 

· Allan Saddi http://www.saddi.com/software/py-lib/ 

· Jan-Klaas Kollhof http://json-rpc.org/wiki/python-json-rpc 

· Mark James http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/ 

· Mark James http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/mint/ 

· Dynarch.com http://www.dynarch.com/projects/calendar/ 

· 2006 Yahoo! Inc http://sourceforge.net/projects/yui 

· Jan-Klaas Kollhof http://jsolait.net/ 

· Sam Stephenson http://prototype.conio.net/ 

· Thomas Fuchs http://script.aculo.us http://mir.aculo.us 

· Lokesh Dhakar http://huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/ 

· David Vignoni http://www.icon-king.com 

· Secret Labs AB, Fredrik Lundh http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil 

· SmartCode Solutions http://www.s-code.com 

· Neotonic Software Corporation http://www.neotonic.com/ 

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Chapter 5 Credits 

· Manuel Kasper http://m0n0.ch/wall/ 

· Michael Stroeder http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/ 

· AB Strakt http://pyopenssl.sourceforge.net/ 

· Xdg-utils-1.0.2 http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0/ 



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