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Network configuration for the XenServers hosting the virtual desktop virtual machines:
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Assigned separate NICs for mgmt and storage traffic and configured appropriate host access at NetApp to
limit access to the correct VLAN.
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NIC0 – Management network (native vLAN set to 164 in UCS network config)
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NIC1 – vLAN122 is dedicated to the desktops only
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NIC 2 – vLAN166
Configured the appropriate host access at NetApp to limit access to the correct VLAN (Figure 36):
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An IP address was assigned to the NIC2 interface and was configured to be non-route-able (no gateway)
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NIC2 included that IP address in NetApp and isolated all other data traffic from Management IP or some
other addresses.
Figure 36. Server Networks
5.3.5 Citrix Provisioning Services
Citrix Provisioning Server (PVS) is part of the XenDesktop Enterprise and Platinum suites and was used in all
tested scenarios, this allows 1000‘s of virtual machines hosted on hypervisor servers to PXE boot from and share
a single gold Windows 7 Image.
5.3.6 Citrix Provisioning Server (PVS) for use with Standard Desktops
The windows desktop image is converted into a vDisk (.vhd) image; this is then locked in a ―Shared‖ (Read-only)
mode and hosted on the PVS server‘s local disk or on a shared file location.
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Virtual desktops are then configured to PXE boot on Hypervisor server
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PVS streams the vDisk image on start to the Hypervisor, and is loaded into RAM