Specifications

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Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server:
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11. Click Install.
12. Click Finish.
13. The Provisioning services configuration wizard will automatically launch. Click Next to begin.
14. For DHCP, select Service runs on another computer, and click Next.
15. For PXE services, click Service runs on this computer, and click Next.
16. For Farm creation, click Create farm, and click Next.
17. For the database server, for server name, type XD-PVS and for instance name, type SQLEXPRESS and click
Next.
18. For the farm, enter the following, and click Next:
 Database name= ProvisioningServices
 Farm= farm
 Site= site
 Collection name= Collection
 Farm Administrator group= VDI/builtin/administrators
19. For the store path, enter Store name= Store and for Path, browse to the root of the 50 GB SSD LUN e:\ and
click Next.
20. Enter XD-DDC.vdi.com for the license server, and click Next.
21. Enter the VDI\Administrator Password twice, click the checkbox next to Configure the database for the account,
and click Next.
22. Keep the default number of days between password updates, and click Next.
23. Keep the primary interface and communication ports, and click Next.
24. Keep the TFTP service at default, and click Next.
25. Leave the stream service at default, and click Next.
26. Click Finish.
Installing Citrix Provisioning Services Administrative Console XD-PVS
1. Insert the media for Citrix Provisioning services 6.0.
2. Click Auto run.
3. Click Console installation.
4. Click Install to install the broker snap-in.
5. Click I accept the terms in the License agreement, and click Install.
6. Click Finish.
7. At the welcome screen for Provisioning services Console, click Next.
8. Accept the licensing agreement, and click Next.
9. Enter a user name and organization name, and click Next.
10. Accept the default install path, and click Next.
11. Accept the default install type, and click Next.
12. Click Install and Finish.
Setting up a Windows 7 Enterprise x64 image for Login VSI Launchers
Using the vSphere client, we created a Windows 7 Enterprise x64 VM with the Login VSI launcher software, and
cloned it to create eight Login VSI launchers. Launchers 1 through 4 were created on infra, and 5 through 8 were created
on infra2. We also created a single optimized Windows 7 Enterprise x86 VM on the SUT as the gold image for
XenDesktop vDisk imaging and deployment. All launchers were provisioned on LUN3.
Installing the Windows 7 Enterprise (x64) Login VSI launcher
1. Log into the appropriate vCenter.
2. In the vSphere client, connect to the vCenter Server, and browse to the ESXi host named infra.