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Appendix A Citrix XenDesktop solution configurations
Solution configuration - Hardware components
Description
Virtual Desktops
• 16 x Dell PowerEdge M610 Servers:
o ESXi 4.1
o BIOS Version: 3.0.0
o 2 x Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X5687
3.6 Ghz Processors
o 96 GB RAM
o 2 x 146 GB 10K SAS internal disk
drives
o 1 x Dual-port Broadcom 5709 1 GbE
NIC (LAN on motherboard)
o 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme II 57711 10
GbE NIC, Dual-Port
ESXi 4.1
was installed on all M610
servers. 80 Virtual desktops
were
hosted
by each ESXi server.
Windows 7 (32 Bit) VMs
Provisioning
Services Servers
and Desktop
Delivery
Controllers
(DDC)
•
2 x Dell PowerEdge R710 servers:
o ESXi 4.1
o BIOS Version: 3.0.0
o 2 x Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X5690
3.46 Ghz Processors
o 96 GB RAM,
o 2 x 146 GB 10K SAS internal disk
drives
o 1 x Quad-port Broadcom 5709 1 GbE
NIC (LAN on motherboard)
o 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme II 57711 10
GbE NIC, Dual-Port
ESXi 4.1 was installed on both R710
servers.
Two V
Ms per ESXi servers were
created with Windows 2008 Server
R2 OS.
One VM
hosted the first PVS and
the other VM
hosted a DDC.
T
he other ESXi server had the
exact
same setup for high
availability.
File server
• 1 x Dell PowerEdge R710 servers:
o ESXi 4.1
o BIOS Version: 3.0.0
o 2 x Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X5690
3.46Ghz Processors
o 96 GB RAM
o 2 x 146 GB 10K SAS internal disk
drives
o 1 x Quad-port Broadcom 5709 1 GbE
NIC (LAN on motherboard)
o 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme II 57711 10
ESX
i 4.1 was installed.
Two VMs
were created.
The VMs
were loaded with
Windows 2008 R2 operating
system.
User data
was presented to all
virtual desktops using these servers
as CIFS share.