Users Guide

Template – deploy physical server and virtual machine

Template – deploy virtual machines to cluster

Template – install ESXi to SD card with Fibre Channel storage

Template – install ESXi to SD card with iSCSI storage

Template – deploy Hyper-V host with iSCSI storage

Template – deploy Hyper-V cluster with iSCSI storage

Template – deploy Hyper-V cluster with Fibre Channel storage to SCVMM

Template – deploy VMware cluster with NetApp storage

Template – boot from Fibre Channel SAN

Template – boot from iSCSI SAN

Template – deploy virtual machine template clone on Hyper-V cluster

Template – deploy virtual machine template clone on VMware cluster

Template – deploy Citrix XenDesktop for 500 users

This template provides virtual infrastructure (storage, hosts and cluster) for 500 desktop users.

1. In the Templates page, select the Deploy Citrix XenDesktop for 500 Users and then click the Clone

button.

2. In the Create Template dialog box, enter the Template Name and Template Description for the

template.

3. On the Template Builder page, click a storage component, click Edit in the box that is displayed, and

then configure the following settings in the Storage Component dialog box. Repeat this step for

each storage components.

a. In the Component Name box, type the component name. (Optional)

b. Under Storage Settings, configure the following:

1. Enter the unique names for the Storage Volume Name and Storage Pool. (Optional)

2. Update the values of Storage size, Thin Provisioning, Snapshot Reserve %, Thin Min

Reserve %, Thin growth Warning %, Thin growth Maximum %, Thin warning on threshold

%, and Multi-Host access of volume.

3. From the Authentication drop-down list, select authentication type as CHAP.

4. Update the Chap username and Chap secret text boxes for volume access.

4. On the Template Builder page, click the server component, click Edit in the box that is displayed, and

then configure the following settings in the Server Component dialog box. Repeat this step for each

server components.

a. In the Component Name text box, type the component name. (Optional)

b. Under Hardware Settings section, configure the following settings:

1. Retain the value of Target Boot Device as default value of SD Card.

2. From the Server Pool drop-down list, select the server pool that contains a target server.

c. Under OS Settings, configure the following:

1. To select the administrator password that configures on the deployed OS, in the

Administrator password text box, type the administrator password. In the Confirm

administrator password box, type the password again to confirm.