Point, Click, Deploy: setting up a Citrix XenDesktop proof of concept in a snap -

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Point, Click, Deploy: setting up a Citrix XenDesktop proof of concept in a snap - -

you can with just a few clicks create a Citrix XenDesktop proof of concept deployment. Do not believe it? What if we in you how to just four easy steps?

you could show. Welcome to Citrix Lifecycle Management.

What is Citrix Lifecycle Management?

Citrix Lifecycle Management is to expedite a comprehensive cloud-based lifecycle management solution and simplify the design, deployment and ongoing management of Citrix workloads and enterprise applications.

Support for many types of IT workloads in virtual and private or public cloud environments, this solution enables IT organizations faster, cheaper and more flexible, and it helps in redundancy, automatic scaling and disaster recovery applications ensure service quality and high availability. Building on blueprints contains validated reference architectures, configurations and best practices, Citrix Lifecycle Management provides a unified and standardized set of management tools for the fast and best-practice-driven design, deployment and management of Citrix workloads and enterprise applications.

See this blog for a further explanation of Citrix Lifecycle Management.

Citrix Lifecycle Management is provided as a cloud-based service through the newly launched Citrix Workspace cloud.

Deploy XenDesktop in minutes? Citrix Lifecycle Management makes it possible.

Citrix Lifecycle Management uses flexible, customizable predefined sets of automation scripts, assembled as plans . It is for the provision of services, including Citrix XenDesktop, NetScaler XenMobile and for use on wide installed hypervisor platforms or popular private / public clouds with preconfigured schedules.

A plan contains information about how to deploy and manage an application or service. Plan defining an application deployment setup, operation and conditions for monitoring, scaling, failover, failback and teardown. They allow you to provide fast, then monitor and your deployment keep demolishing of set up, all through a clean and powerful design designer user interface (UI).

Citrix Lifecycle Management consists of a core platform with a workflow automation engine monitoring service and multi-cloud broker functions, and to change a draft Designer for creating or existing plans.

Take Citrix Lifecycle Management for a test drive

The best way to learn Citrix Lifecycle Management, it is a try. all here is to deploy XenDesktop quickly accepts .:

  1. Connect your virtualization or cloud environment Lifecycle Management
  2. Select XenDesktop proof of concept plan from the catalog and add to your library.
  3. to the details of the Setup Wizard Complete for each server level.
  4. Set the XenDesktop Plan virtualization or cloud environment.

Citrix Lifecycle Management under the ceiling

Let's look at these steps in detail.

Step 1. Connect the virtualization or cloud environment Citrix Lifecycle Management

to use an enterprise application in a virtualization or cloud environment, you first need to automate a connection to Citrix Lifecycle management to establish.

  • under Resources & settings, select "Add Resource Location".
  • For public cloud like AWS, enter your API key and secret key within Lifecycle Management.


For private cloud or virtualization environment behind your company's firewall, you need to install the lifecycle management agent on a computer, as a link between can act Lifecycle management and your private life as well as the API Access Point and credentials with lifecycle management offer.

  • If you want to use physical machines running XenDesktop, install Agent lifecycle management on the machine you want to use.

Step 2. Add the XenDesktop Plan your library

plans in the Blueprint catalog located in Citrix Lifecycle Management.

  • The Blueprint catalog, select the XenDesktop POC Plan and add to the library by clicking to select the "+" sign in the lower right corner of the description. Configure

Step 3. Provision of the installation wizard (s)

Once you added the blueprint to your library you need for your deployment configure ,

  • to click the Design & Deploy tab and XenDesktop POC seek the plan that you just added.

you. Mouse over "Actions" (third column from the left) on the XenDesktop POC Plan Hover line and click on the down arrow You can choose the plan to watch, to see what it contains, or just go deploying the provisioning process to start.

  • Select shows "providing"

The metadata for the Plan, so you can check it's the right plan

  • Click check "Start deployment Setup"

the checklist prior to deployment. be sure to check all requirements and ensure that you have the necessary information before you start. Enter the resource location on which you want to deploy XenDesktop; the checklist for your resource location automatically adjusted before deployment.

How to start the deployment process, a wizard walks you through all the configuration steps. For a proof of concept plan, most of the steps are preconfigured, so you need to provide information for your environment only specific available.

The XenDesktop POC design creates a domain controller, a XenDesktop server, the SQL Express contains, XenDesktop Controller Citrix License Server and storefront and a VDA server for you to test your virtualization desktop after deployment.

You can also configure NetScaler, if you want to have an Access Gateway to enable remote access from outside of the corporate network.

  • Add your deployment profile.

If you have completed the setup wizard, you are asked to save your deployment as a deployment profile, which is a reusable copy of your deployment that captures all the details, so that one over and over can use without having to reconfigure again.

This step is optional, but recommended for future implementations, if you have your plan properly configured.

Step 4. Deploy XenDesktop

Note : Before creating Start a XenDesktop POC deployment, make sure that you have a sysprepped Windows Server 2012 template available and sufficient hardware resources in your virtualization environment. More information can be found here.

  • Once Saving your profile, click "Deploy".

When the application starts, you can view progress in providing manage window if you want to follow along. Or you can relax a coffee break and take notice.

When the deployment is complete, you will receive an email saying, you can start your virtual desktop instantly.

Have we not say that it is easy?

Next steps

  • More information about Citrix Lifecycle Management
  • Specify the Citrix XenDesktop POC Quick Reference Guide for detailed instructions ,
  • Try the software today
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