Specifications
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Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server:
Uncompromised virtual desktop performance
10. Log into gold_image as VDI\Administrator
11. Browse to the Provisioning services media.
12. Execute the autorun.exe.
13. Click target Device Installation.
14. At the welcome screen for Provisioning Service Target Device Wizard, click Next.
15. Accept the License agreement, and click Next.
16. Enter user name and organization name, and click Next.
17. Accept the default path, and click Next.
18. Click Install.
19. Click Finish
Provisioning Services Imaging Wizard
1. At the Welcome screen, click Next.
2. For server, type XD-PVS and click Next.
3. Select Create new vDisk, and click Next.
4. Name the vDisk gold_vdisk and click Next.
5. For Microsoft Volume Licensing, click None, and click Next.
6. Select the image volume defaults, ensure the Capacity is 20 GB and the free space is greater than 30%. Click
Next.
7. For target device name, type PVS_gold and click Next.
8. Click Finish to begin creating the empty vDisk.
9. In vCenter, right-click the gold_image VM, and click Edit settings.
10. Click Options tabBoot options, check the box to force BIOS Setup, and click OK.
11. When the vDisk has been completed, click Yes to Reboot the gold_image VM.
12. In the VM BIOS, tab to the Boot menu, and change the boot order to:
a. CD-ROM Drive
b. Intel E1000
c. Hard Drive
d. Removable Devices
13. Tab to Exit, and save exiting changes.
14. When the VM boots, it will boot from PXE and Provisioning services will stream the vDisk to the device.
15. Log in as VDI\administrator
16. Provisioning services will now copy the gold_image VM to the vDisk.
17. Click Finish.
18. Shutdown gold_image.
19. In vCenter, right-click gold_image and edit settings.
20. Remove hard Disk 1 (do not delete the vmdk), and click OK.
21. Click gold_image, and click Edit settings.
22. Click Add new hard disk.
23. Create a new virtual disk, and click Next.
24. For size, enter 4 GB, and click Next.
25. Leave the device as SCSI (0:0), and click Next.
26. Click Finish, and OK.
Enabling gold_image to boot from vDisk
1. Log into XD-PVS as VDI\administrator
2. Open all programsCitrixProvisioning ServicesProvisioning Service Console.
3. Open Provisioning ServicesFarmSiteDevice CollectionsCollections, and right- click PVS _gold.
4. Change boot from Hard Disk to vDIsk, and click OK.