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Cisco UCS B230 M2 Blade Server:
Uncompromised virtual desktop performance
6. In the GPO, browse to Computer ConfigurationAdministrative TemplateClassic Administrative Template
(ADM)PCoIP Session Variables Not Overridable Administrative settings, and click Turn off Build-to-lossless
feature. Right click, and click Edit.
7. Select the radio button for Enabled, and tick the box next to I accept to turn off the Build-to-lossless feature.
8. In the GPO, browse to Computer ConfigurationAdministrative TemplateClassic Administrative Template
(ADM)PCoIP Session Variables Not Overridable Administrative settings, and click Configure PCoIP image
quality levels. Right click, and click Edit.
9. Set the Minimum Image Quality value to 50, Maximum Image Quality to 90, and the Maximum Frame Rate to
15.
10. Click OK.
11. Close the Group Policy editor.
Setting up the Login VSI share and Active Directory users
For Login VSI we configured a CIFS share, Active Directory OU, and Active directory. All user profiles will be AD
roaming. For more information on Login VSI, see http://www.loginvsi.com/en/admin-guide/installation.html.
1. Open Windows Explorer and create a file called share
2. Assign permissions of read/write to the view5/everyone group.
3. Copy the Login VSI install media and a valid Login VSI license file into the share.
4. From the Login VSI 3.0 Release 6 media, run the Login VSI AD Setup.
5. Keep the defaults, and click Start.
6. Open Active Directory users and computers, and verify the Login VSI users.
7. Select all Login VSI users and change the users profile to be //dc1/share/%username%
Setting up a VM to host the vCenter server
1. From a Microsoft Windows server or workstation, connect to the infra server via the vSphere client.
2. Log into infra with the VMware vSphere client.
3. In the vSphere client, connect to the vCenter Server, and browse to the ESXi host.
4. Click the Virtual Machines tab.
5. Right-click, and choose New Virtual Machine.
6. Choose Custom, and click Next.
7. Assign the name vCenter5 to the virtual machine, and click Next.
8. Select the NFS-infra datastore, and click Next.
9. Choose Virtual Machine Version 8, and click Next.
10. Choose Windows, choose Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit), and click Next.
11. Choose two virtual processors, and click Next.
12. Choose 4GB RAM, and click Next.
13. Click 1 for the number of NICs, select E1000, connect to the data network, and click Next.
14. Leave the default virtual storage controller, and click Next.
15. Choose to create a new virtual disk, and click Next.
16. Make the OS virtual disk size 40 GB, choose thick-provisioned lazy zeroed, specify the OS datastore on the
external storage, and click Next.
17. Keep the default virtual device node (0:0), and click Next.
18. Connect the VM virtual CD-ROM to the Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 installation disk.
19. Click Finish.
20. Start the VM.
Installing the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system on the VM
1. Choose the language, time and currency, and keyboard input. Click Next.
2. Click Install Now.