Dell XC Web-Scale Converged Appliance - Manual (Page 136)

136 Wyse Datacenter Appliance XC for Citrix XenDesktop
14 Deploying Virtual Desktop Master Image
14.1 Deploying Virtual Desktop
Do the following tasks, if provisioning virtual desktops.
14.2 Setting up Desktop Template (Gold Image)
14.3 Creating Template VM
Suggested on the basis of user types used by Dell.
NOTE: Solution is provided on the basis of using full clones for persistence (Standard provisioning) and
recommended disk format is VMDK. Make sure Master Image is placed in the same container as the
Desktop pool for faster deployment.
Provision a Gold image by doing the following tasks:
Machine Creation Services - Master Image
 Create Base VM (specify Disk size, Network, Memory etc)
 Install Windows 8.1
 Install required application software
 Optimize Windows 8.1 using Citrix Optimization best practices
 Add VM to the Domain
 Install the Citrix VDA
 Create a reference Snapshot
 Create a machine catalog and Delivery group via XenDesktop Setup Wizard
Installing Citrix VDA Agent
Mount the XD7.5 ISO to the master image virtual machine and select installation for the Desktop VDA.
NOTE: There are two options but only the desktop agent will be made available for installation. Make
sure you add the DNS name of the Delivery Controller, this will connect all newly provisioned desktops to
the DDC.
Refer to VDA installation section for RDS for the installations tasks.