Specifications
A Principled Technologies test report 28
Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server:
Uncompromised virtual desktop performance
4. Select default installs.
5. Click Install.
6. Download and run Office 2007 Service Pack 2.
7. Reboot the system.
Installing Virtual Audio Cables
By default, the virtual launchers cannot render audio so we installed Virtual Audio Cables version 4.10. The
software can be downloaded from http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.htm
1. Download and extract the media.
2. Click Setup.
3. Click Yes to begin the install.
4. Click I accept to accept the software license agreement.
5. Click Install.
Installing Login VSI target software on the launcher
1. Browse to \\vsi-install\Target setup.
2. Run the setup.exe.
3. In the Target Setup wizard, specify the VSI share (\\dc1\share).
4. Click Start.
5. When prompted with security warnings, click OK.
6. Reboot the system.
Patching the Login VSI launcher and updating the version of Adobe Flash.
By default, Login VSI installs an older version of Flash. To ensure Flash Media Redirection works, ensure that the
launcher version is 3.4.1 or greater and that adobe Flash player 11 plugin has been updated. It can be found here:
http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html.
Installing the Citrix Receiver 13.0.0 on the Launcher
1. Browse to the Citrix XenDesktop media, and run the XdAgent_64.msi file.
2. When the installation is complete, reboot the launcher.
Preparing the launcher to execute scripted sessions to XenDesktop
To automate the testing of XenDesktop, we installed python2.6 and pywin 32-214. We used the Login VSI CCL to
call a python script to launch the session to the Citrix broker. The launcher will need to have python, pywin and PAMIE
installed. You can load python from http://www.python.org/getit/releases/2.6/ and pywin from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/.
Installing Python 2.6
1. Download and extract python 2.6.
2. Click on the python-2.6.msi.
3. Click Install of all users, and click Next.
4. Accept the default directory, and click Next.
5. Accept the default options, and click Next.
6. Click Finish.
Installing Pywin-32 and PAMIE
1. Download and extract pywin32.
2. Execute the pywin32-214.win32-py2.6.exe file.
3. Click Next to being the Pywin-32 installer.
4. Accept the default file location, and click Next.
5. Click Finish.
6. Download PAMIE, and extract files into the C:\Python26\Lib\Site-Packages directory.