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Citrix XenDesktop Cookbook-Third Edition: Over 40 engaging recipes that will help you implement a full-featured XenDesktop 7.6 architecture and its main satellite components

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Citrix XenDesktop Cookbook-Third Edition

Chapter 2. Configuring and Deploying Virtual Machines for XenDesktop® 7.6

In this chapter, you will cover the following recipes:

  • Configuring the XenDesktop Site
  • Configuring XenDesktop 7.6 to interact with XenServer 6.2
  • Configuring XenDesktop 7.6 to interact with VMWare vSphere 5.x
  • Configuring XenDesktop 7.6 to interact with Microsoft Hyper-V

Introduction

The first step in implementing a fully functioning infrastructure is to configure XenDesktop's components. After this, the second, and maybe the most important, step is to deploy the virtual desktop instances.

To accomplish this task, you need to interface the Citrix Delivery Controllers with a hypervisor, a bare-metal operating system that is able to create, configure, and manage virtual machines. XenDesktop is able to communicate with three important hypervisor systems on the market: XenServer, VMware vSphere, and Microsoft Hyper-V, plus the Citrix Cloud platform automation known as CloudPlatform. The mechanism implemented is the following: after you have created a template, a virtual machine with a Microsoft desktop or server operating system on board, XenDesktop is able to deploy OS instances to the end users starting with the virtual machine image using different deployment technologies.

The main task of the Delivery Controller is to start virtual machines and assign...

Configuring the XenDesktop® Site

Before there is any interaction between components, after you have installed the Citrix Studio and Citrix Director, you need to configure a site, which will be the place where you will configure the hypervisor host.

Getting ready

In order to complete all the required steps for this recipe and perform a standard site deploy, you need to be assigned the administrator role for all the machines involved in the site configuration (the Delivery Controller and the database server).

How to do it...

In the following steps, we will describe how to create a site for a XenDesktop 7.6 infrastructure:

  1. Connect to the Citrix Studio by searching for it within the Windows application list (Windows + C key combination – Search icon), then click on its icon.
  2. In the Welcome to Citrix Studio screen, click on the Deliver applications and desktops to your users option to start the XenDesktop Site creation as shown in the following screenshot:
    How to do it...
  3. In the Introduction section, click...

Configuring XenDesktop® 7.6 to interact with XenServer® 6.2

The first and the most common configuration for a XenDesktop site is interfacing it with the Citrix hypervisor, XenServer. Related to XenDesktop 7.6 is the XenServer 6.2 release.

Note

At the time of writing, Citrix has released the XenServer 6.5 version. The features that interact with XenDesktop are quite the same, an import update is given by the 64-bits dom0 platform. More information can be found at http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/xenserver/xs-wrapper-65.html

Getting ready

The preliminary work required to perform all the operations of this recipe involves installing one or more XenServer host(s). To accomplish this task, you need to download the XenServer iso image file from http://www.citrix.com/downloads.html or from http://www.xenserver.org/. XenServer is a bare-metal hypervisor, a kind of virtualizator, which directly manages the hardware; for this reason, you have to install it as a normal operating system...

Configuring XenDesktop® 7.6 to interact with VMware vSphere 5.x

XenDesktop offers compatibility not only for Citrix proprietary platforms, but it also supports the most important virtualization architectures on the market. VMware is currently the virtualization solution that better permits you to manage the resource commitment and assignment for your virtual environments.

Getting ready

To ensure that all the activities in this chapter will be fully executed, it is required that you have an already functioning VMware vSphere environment, made up of at least two ESXi servers and a Windows server, on which to install the VMware Virtual Center software.

Tip

As an alternative, you can download the Virtual Center Virtual Appliance OVF template, directly from the VMware website.

After this, the step you have to perform is to import the VMware Virtual Center certificate on to the XenDesktop server, to allow Desktop Studio to connect with the SSL connection to the Virtual Center SDK.

How to do it...

Configuring XenDesktop® 7.6 to interact with Microsoft Hyper-V

In the last few years, collaboration between Citrix and Microsoft has grown so much that they now share the application virtualization and deployment market. Respecting this partnership, it is possible to deploy virtual desktops for Citrix with Hyper-V, the Microsoft hypervisor.

Getting ready

To be able to use virtual machines with Windows Server 2012, first, we need to install and configure the hypervisor server role. After this, in order to allow the Desktop Controller to interact with the Hyper-V server, it is necessary to install the Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, also known as SCVMM, release 2012 SP1.

How to do it...

In this section, we will configure the Microsoft Hyper-V 3.0 system and the XenDesktop 7.6 installation to be able to communicate with each other:

  1. On a clean Windows Server 2012 R2 installation, with no other roles installed on the Server Manager Dashboard, click on the Add roles and features...
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Over 40 engaging recipes that will help you implement a full-featured XenDesktop® 7.6 architecture and its main satellite components About This Book Implement, configure, and optimize the migration from a physical to a VDI architecture using XenDesktop 7.6 Publish desktops and applications to the end user devices, optimizing their performance and increasing the security for the delivered resources A pragmatic guide that helps you to explore the XenDesktop 7.6 architecture and its related components to implement a service-oriented architecture based on the Citrix FlexCast approach Who This Book Is For If you are a system administrator or an experienced IT professional who wants to refer to a centralized container of procedures and advanced tasks in XenDesktop, this is the book for you. Experience of the virtualized environment and an understanding of the general concepts of desktop virtualization (VDI) are required. What You Will Learn Upgrade from XenDesktop 5.6 / 7.x to XenDesktop 7.6 Configure and deploy virtual machines for XenDesktop 7.6 Perform configuration and optimization operations for desktop and server OS images for future deployments Plan and configure XenDesktop user experience Execute desktop environment administration tasks, including catalog creation, power management, and resource allocation Understand how to publish the hosted applications, Local Access Apps (LAA), and applications using Microsoft App-V Work with XenDesktop PowerShell to reduce the time required to perform the management tasks by the creation of the PowerShell scripts Implement the two-factor hardware and software authentication for XenDesktop Install and configure Citrix Netscaler Gateway 10.5 and Citrix XenMobile 10 to improve the quality, the performance, and the manageability of your Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) architecture In Detail In the era of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and consecration of the mobile devices, Citrix has strengthened its position in this market, powering its desktop and application virtualization platforms, integrating the ability to publish virtual and physical desktops with the capability to assign applications and contents in a secure manner on any device, anywhere, more than previous versions. The XenDesktop 7.6 version is a more integrated platform, which permits the use and interaction with mobility and cloud platforms leaders in the market. This book will help you understand how to implement, configure, and optimize migration from a physical to a VDI architecture, moving from a standard application approach to a centralized and more secure way to assign and release resources to the end users. The book begins with the upgrade and installation procedures for the core infrastructural components, along with an explanation of how to deploy and optimize procedures for desktop virtual machines. Moving on, you will perform desktop and applications deployment through the XenDesktop core plus integrated publishing platforms, such as Microsoft App-V. Finally, the book explains how to install and configure important collateral platforms such as the Citrix Netscaler, Citrix CloudBridge and Citrix XenMobile platforms, along with execution of the most advanced activities and configurations. Style and approach This book is a step-by-step course that includes standard and high-level tasks oriented to deploy a full-functioning Citrix environment. This practical approach is based on both GUI and command-line operations, which gives IT professionals an alternative on the way to operate, where possible.

Who is this book for?

If you are a system administrator or an experienced IT professional who wants to refer to a centralized container of procedures and advanced tasks in XenDesktop, this is the book for you.

What you will learn

  • Upgrade from XenDesktop 5.6 / 7.x to XenDesktop 7.6
  • Configure and deploy virtual machines for XenDesktop 7.6
  • Perform configuration and optimization operations for desktop and server OS images for future deployments
  • Plan and configure XenDesktop user experience
  • Execute desktop environment administration tasks, including catalog creation, power management, and resource allocation
  • Understand how to publish the hosted applications, Local Access Apps (LAA), and applications using Microsoft AppV
  • Work with XenDesktop PowerShell to reduce the time required to perform the management tasks by the creation of the PowerShell scripts
  • Implement the twofactor hardware and software authentication for XenDesktop
  • Install and configure Citrix Netscaler Gateway 10.5 and Citrix XenMobile 10 to improve the quality, the performance, and the manageability of your Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) architecture

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Table of Contents

11 Chapters
1. XenDesktop® 7.6 – Upgrading, Installation, and Configuration Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Configuring and Deploying Virtual Machines for XenDesktop® 7.6 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Master Image Configuration and Tuning Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. User Experience – Planning and Configuring Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Creating and Configuring a Desktop Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Deploying Applications Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. XenDesktop® Infrastructure Tuning Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. XenDesktop® Component Integration Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Working with PowerShell Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. Configuring the XenDesktop® Advanced Logon Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Very interesting book. The author has a lot of practical knowledge.The book is good for people they are new in this topic but also helpful for Citrix admins with experience.With this book you can implement XenDesktop with all the necessary components. If you will gain a deeper understanding how each component works, you can use the book as starting point and use edocs to get more information.
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This huge (more than 400 pages) book is a validd source of information on Citrix XenDesktop 7.6It goes from the installation (including some upgrade notes), the database settings, the integration with the hypervisors level (XenServer, vSphere or Hyper-V).Lot of details are provided on how configure and tuning the master image and improved the user experience.Application delivery is also consider, with different options (included AppV)Interestin the XenDesktop® Component Integration with:-Configuring the CloudBridge 7.4 platform-Installing and configuring NetScaler Gateway 10.5-Installing and configuring XenMobile 10Scripting, tuning, monitoring and measurements are well considered, as also custom logon and strong authentication
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