Citrix VM needs COM port disabled in ESX3?

[marklemon]

I found this doc:

which recommends disabling COM1 and COM2 ports on a VM running Citrix on an ESX2 server (see bottom of page 19)

My question is, should this change be implemented on ESX3 as well?

cheers,

Kevin

[doubleH]

i would say this should be a best practice for any vm. i disable these in my templates so any vm that gets deployed via the template has these disabled.

[Chris_S_UK]

I can see no reason why you would not follow this discipline on ESX3.

In fact, I would disable these on any VM except if specifically needed....

Chris

[TomHowarth]

If you have no requirement for a COM or LPT port to be physically attached to the server, just do not add them to the guest. COM and LPT port redirection via the ICA client will still work for the end users if they require it.

I tend to keep all my Guests as lean a I can, minimum memory, minimum Disk and single CPU where ever posible.

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