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...