Specifications

A Principled Technologies test report 21
Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server:
Uncompromised virtual desktop performance
6. Click OK.
Add the Web server role to DC1, and copy the Flash media to the wwwroot directory
1. Click StartAdministrative ToolsServer ManagerAdd Roles.
2. Select Web Server (IIS), and click Next.
3. Skip the introduction to Web server (IIS), and click Next.
4. Confirm role services, and click Next,
5. Click Install.
6. Open the Login VSI install directory and copy \setup\target Setup\Lib\Lib Shared\Websites folder to
c:\intepub\wwwroot
7. Open a Web browser to http://dc1/websites/KA/ and verify the Flash media is running.
Setting up a VM to host the vCenter server
1. 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 vCenter to the virtual machine, and click Next.
8. Select infra for the host, and click Next.
9. Select LUN1 for the storage, and click Next.
10. Choose Virtual Machine Version 8, and click Next.
11. Choose Windows, choose Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit), and click Next.
12. For CPUs, select one virtual processor socket, and 2 cores per virtual socket, and click Next.
13. Choose 4GB RAM, and click Next.
14. Click 1 for the number of NICs, select VMXNET3, connect to the VDI-NET portgroup, and click Next.
15. Leave the default virtual storage controller, and click Next.
16. Choose to create a new virtual disk, and click Next.
17. Make the OS virtual disk size 40 GB, choose thick-provisioned lazy zeroed, specify the OS datastore on the data1,
and click Next.
18. Keep the default virtual device node (0:0), and click Next.
19. Connect the VM virtual CD-ROM to the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 installation disk.
20. Click Finish.
21. Right-click the vCenter VM, and click Edit settings.
22. Click the Resources tab, click Memory, check the Reserve all guest memory box, and click OK.
23. 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.
3. Choose Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise (Full Installation), and click Next.
4. Accept the license terms, and click Next.
5. Click Custom.
6. Click the Disk, and click Drive options (advanced).
7. Click NewApplyFormat, and click Next.
8. After the installation completes, click OK to set the Administrator password.
9. Enter the administrator password twice, and click OK.
10. Connect the machine to the Internet, and install all available Windows updates. Restart as necessary.