Sunday, November 25, 2012

How Quick Deploy feature of Citrix XenDesktop can help ?

Have you come across the following situation ?

Your boss is about launch a Citrix XenDesktop project  and user pilot stage is about to begin. However, you get this new order just a few days ago. During this time, you have another two projects in progress. What can you do ?

"Quick Deploy" feature can save your life in this case. After many "Next" button of XenDesktop controller installation, you can enable user to access virtual desktop quickly.

Notes: In order to use Quick Deploy, all XenDesktop controllers components must be installed on same machine including the SQL server express 2008 R2 bundled. A supported hypervisor and a master image(virtual desktop agent installed) is ready.

After installation, when you launch Desktop Studio,  select "Quick Deploy", you will get a wizard below:
 Fill in "Site" name", click "Next"

Select your hypervisor e.g.VMware vSphere

Select the pool or cluster unit depend the hypervisor
 
Select Storage for virtual desktops

Select your master image (a snapshot )

 Create how many virtual desktop and the computer account location in Active Directory

Who can use these virtual desktop ?

Click "Finish" to go.

have a tea time now.

 creating virtual desktop on your hypervisor

Job done.

  
Virtual desktops are about to ready.


Once the virtual desktop boot up, users can access their virtual desktops at 
http://

 Quick Deploy is a user-friendly function that help to speed up your Citrix XenDesktop evaluation and pilot testing. Users can get experience of virtual desktop quickly. 

I hope this walk-through can help you.

One more note, Quick Deploy is intend for evaluation or pilot testing. For production, serious planning are absolutely needed.

Welcome for any comment.


 

 


 





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