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Active System Manager Release 8.1.1 User’s Guide

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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.

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

    2. 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.

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

    2. 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.

    3. 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.

        • NOTE: It is critical to update the password within this template. The value in the template is masked, but the actual password is not set. If this password is not set, you cannot log in to the deployed server.

      2. From the OS Image drop-down list, select an OS for a hypervisor (Example: ESXi 5.1 or ESX 5.5) that are configured and to be deployed within your ASM managed environment.

    4. Under Network Settings section, update the network settings accordingly for the hypervisor that you are deploying and for the configured networks in your environment.
  5. On the Template Builder page, click the cluster component, click Edit in the box that is displayed, and then configure the following settings in the Cluster Component dialog box. Repeat this step for each cluster components.

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

    2. Under Cluster Settings, configure the following:

      1. From the Target Hypervisor drop-down list, select the target vCenter.

      2. In the Data Center Name and Cluster Name text boxes, type their corresponding names.

  6. On the Template Builder page, click the virtual machine component, click Edit in the box that is displayed, and then configure the following settings in the Cluster Component dialog box. Repeat this step for each cluster components.

    1. Enter the Administrator password.

    2. From the OS Image drop-down list, select the Windows Image to deploy Windows on the virtual machine.

    3. Select the Workload check box next to the Networks field if you want workload networks to access this VM.

      • NOTE: Make sure that the same workload network that you have selected was selected for both of the servers in the Template Builder.
  7. On the Template Builder page, click the application component, click Edit in the box that is displayed, and then configure the following settings in the Application Component dialog box. Repeat this step for each application components.

    1. In the Source Location box, enter the directory location where the Citrix XenDesktop7 ISO was unpacked. You should enter the directory location for each of the application components.

      The location for the directory is //<ASM appliance IP>razor/XenDesktop7/x64/XenDesktop Setup .

  8. To save the settings, click Save.
  9. To publish the template, click Publish Template. The template is now ready to be deployed.

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