Please consider below scenario:

• You are adding the Virtual machines to a Machine catalog from Citrix Studio.
• While adding the Machines, the wizard fails with below error:

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To resolve this issue, please increase the value of "MaxMemoryPerShellMB". To do this, please run the below commandlet:

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> cd wsman:
PS WSMan:\> cd .\localhost\Shell\
Set-Item .\MaxMemoryPerShellMB 2048

Above commandlet increases the Value of the above mentioned parameter to 2GB. Please configure the value as per your need.

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Problem Cause

Citrix Studio uses PowerShell commandlets to do this operation. This issue is seen when the PowerShell is running out of Memory while executing the Commandlets specified by Citrix Studio.

To check the current memory allocated to PowerShell, please run the below commandlet as administrator:
 

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> cd wsman:
PS WSMan:\> cd .\localhost\Shell\
PS WSMan:\localhost\Shell> dir

The default output should look like below:

Type            Name                           SourceOfValue   Value
----            ----                           -------------   -----
System.String   AllowRemoteShellAccess                         true
System.String   IdleTimeout                                    7200000
System.String   MaxConcurrentUsers                             2147483647
System.String   MaxShellRunTime                                2147483647
System.String   MaxProcessesPerShell                           2147483647
System.String   MaxMemoryPerShellMB                            2147483647
System.String   MaxShellsPerUser                               2147483647

 

This issue is seen if the above highlighted Value is set too low and is insufficient.