Specifications
A Principled Technologies test report 23
Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server:
Uncompromised virtual desktop performance
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 4 GB 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 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 box beside Reserve all guest memory, 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 NewApplyFormat, 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.
11. Enable remote desktop access.
12. Change the hostname to XD-DDC and reboot when prompted.
13. Set up networking for the data network:
a. Click Start, Control Panel, right-click Network Connections, and choose Open.
b. Right-click the VM traffic NIC, and choose Properties.
c. Uncheck TCP/IP (v6).
d. Select TCP/IP (v4), and choose Properties.
e. Set the IP address, subnet, gateway, and DNS server.
14. Join the VDI domain.
15. Reboot the system.
16. Install VM tools. For more information, see
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=340
17. Reboot.
Installing Citrix XenDesktop 5.5
We installed XenDesktop desktop delivery controller and provisioning services on two virtual machines to use
vSphere to host XenDesktop virtual desktops. Before we could integrate vSphere server, we needed to edit the vCenter
proxy.xml file to allow access via http.
Editing the vCenter proxy.xml file to allow http access
1. Open a console to the vCenter Server, and login as VDI\administrator
2. Open Wordpad, and edit the file C:\Users\All Users\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\proxy.xml.
3. Find the /sdk entry.