Crash Dump Analysis

This is a new Xen book that I got in the post a few days ago and it seems to be so good that I took it home from work to start reading it during this weekend:

Running Xen: A Hands-On Guide to the Art of Virtualization

I’ll post a review once I read past the first chapter which is the excellent overview of different virtualization technologies.

See also another good Xen book that I discovered previously:

XEN from a system programmer’s perspective

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This is a picture from PubForum event gallery. I’m on the left and Rich Crusco, MVP, Citrix Technical Evangelist for Application Delivery and Virtualization technologies, is on the right. Visitors often think that these books are just on crash dumps… Click on it to enlarge:

More pictures can be found on Frameworkx blog.

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PubForum pictures are available where you can see me selling Crash Dump Tools to the audience and explaining broken clipboard chains:

Pictures

All presentations from that event are available  here:

Presentations

My presentation is also available here:

Citrix Tools: PubForum Presentation

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Here is the presentation PDF file:

Citrix Tools - everything you need for troubleshooting, optimization and analysis

It is based on my previous presentation with a few added slides which can be downloaded from Citrix support web site:

Selected Citrix Troubleshooting Tools

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There are few tools available. Please drop a comment if you know any other. As the focus here is mainly troubleshooting Citrix terminal service environments I put links to Citrix articles where possible:

• - CDFControl

• - ASC/AMC: Using Citrix Diagnostic Facility and the Access Suite Console for Tracing

• - tracelog: How to Collect System Startup Traces Using the Microsoft Utility Tracelog.exe

• - Windows Performance Tools Kit

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I’m presenting Citrix Tools at the famous PubForum event. It is a non-commercial Microsoft Terminal Services, Citrix, Virtualization and Server-Based Computing event. This year PubForum is held in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. See the final event details and agenda:

PubForum, 2008

My presentation date, time and topic are:

Friday, May 9, 19:00 “Citrix Tools - everything you need for troubleshooting, optimization and analysis”

See you there

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Preliminary Table of Contents is available for previously announced Windows® Debugging Notebook:

Draft Table of Contents

This book also features:

• - 256 pages 

• - 64 essential WinDbg commands

• - 32 essential concepts

• - 16 essential tools including Citrix

• - Hexadecimal and binary page numbering

• - Quick base, meta and extension command reminder at the bottom of each page

• - Expanded Crash Dump Analysis checklists

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Due to demand from people that prefer ebooks I published Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 1 in a digital format that can be purchased in Crash Dump Analysis Store. This format has color pictures inside.

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I’m very proud to announce that it is finally available in both paperback and hardback. Why have I made available both editions? Because I personally prefer hardcover books. You can order the book today and it will be printed in 3-5 days (paperback) or 5-10 days (hardcover) and sent to you:

Memory Dump Analysis Anthology, Volume 1

Note: although listed on Amazon and other online bookstores it is not immediately available at these stores at the moment due to the late submission. I apologize for this. However, I expect that in a few weeks pre-orders taken there will be eventually fulfilled. In the mean time, if you want the book now, you can use the link above.

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Because Citrix CDF traces are ETW based it should be possible to process and analyze them using XPrerf and XPerfView from the latest Microsoft Windows Performance Tools:

Windows Performance Tools Kit, v.4.1.1

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