Specifications

A Principled Technologies test report 33
Cisco UCS B200 M3 Blade Server:
Uncompromised virtual desktop performance
2. Click Power Management.
3. Click Weekdays, and select all hours, no action, and position the power on machines line to be uniform across all
hours on the graph.
4. Click Weekends, and select all hours, no action, and position the power on machines line to be uniform across all
hours on the graph, and click OK.
Configuring the Citrix XenDesktop 5 server - creating a catalog and Citrix XenDesktop group
1. Open the Citrix Desktop Studio.
2. Browse Desktop StudioMachines. In the right window, right-click and select Create Catalog.
3. Machine type = pooled, Assignment = random, click Next.
4. Click desktop studioPowerShell, and click Launch PowerShell.
5. In PowerShell, type Set-BrokerDesktopGroup -Name "pool" -ShutdownDesktopsAfterUse
$False
6. Browse Desktop StudioAssignments, and verify that there is 1 desktop available.
Installing the HDX GPO snap-ins for Active Directory
To ensure HXD rendered Flash media on the client, we installed the Active Directory snap-in to our Default
Domain Group policy. We also used a snap-in to disable the XenDesktop Welcome. The .adm files are located on the
install media for and XenDesktop.
1. Log into DC1 as VDI\administrator
2. Open all programsAdmin ToolsGroup Policy Management.
3. In the group policy management tool, open ForestdomainsVDI.comright-click the default domain Policy,
and click Edit.
4. Browse computer Configurationpolicies, right-click Administrative templates, and click Add/Remove
Templates…
5. Click Add…
6. Browse to the HdxFlash-Client.adm.
7. Click Add…
8. Browse to the WelcomeScreen.adm.
9. Close the GPO editor.
Disabling the HDX welcome screen
For all tests, we disabled the XenDesktop welcome screen.
1. Log into DC1 as VDI\administrator
2. Open all programsAdmin ToolsGroup Policy Management.
3. In the group policy management tool, open ForestDomainsVDI.comright-click the default domain Policy,
and click Edit.
4. Browse computer ConfigurationpoliciesAdministrative templatesClassic Administrative Templates
(ADM)Citrix Components, and edit the Disabled the Welcome Screen Policy.
5. Click Enabled, and OK.
Setting HDX to Client side Flash Redirection
To ensure that HDX uses client side rendering we enabled a policy in active directory.
1. Log into DC1 as VDI\administrator
2. Open All programsAdmin ToolsGroup Policy Management.
3. In the Group Policy Management tool, open ForestDomainsVDI.com, right-click the default domain Policy,
and click Edit.