Xenapp/xendesktop Quick Deploy tool-QDT for 7.6 LTSR

The first time you use Citrix Xenapp/xendesktop will have a feeling that Citrix Xenapp/xendekstop initial deployment seems quite complicated, what DDC, Storefront,vda and Ms SQL, If you consider high availability, but also multiple deployments, SQL HA, the basic brain is messed up. If we add NetScaler, then ...

Indeed, from an objective perspective, Citrix Xenapp/xendesktop products are deeply integrated into Microsoft Active Directory, so they rely heavily on Microsoft's ad and SQL Services for product architecture design, ha, and so on. This led to the need to deploy a set of Citrix-approved, high-availability, stable environments that would be a hurdle for many of the engineers who contacted Citrix early on.

Of course, if this set of environments can be built, Citrix's transmission protocols, delivery methods and management system these advantages in virtual desktop, virtual applications have more obvious advantages.

So how can you simplify the deployment, installation part of the preamble? For this reason, Citrix Nanjing Research and Development Center (currently in the Citrix system after the United States and India (mainly NS) research and Development Center, specifically for the Chinese region has developed a set of accelerated user Deployment Tools: Citrix Quick Deployment toolkits.

Quick Deployment Toolkits (hereinafter referred to as QDT) to Xenapp/xendesktop 7.6 LTSR as a blueprint for support (ask me why only support LTSR, see the update rate of CR, brother is really not catch! ）

1. Important things say 3 times, only support 7.6 LTSR, only support 7.6 LTSR, only support 7.6 LTSR.

   #QDT开发时测试过7.6 LTSR Cu2,cu3, just released CU4 hasn't had time to test, but theoretically no problem.

2. The system supports Windows Server r2,windows 7. There is no problem with Windows 10 testing, remember to choose the appropriate version, but considering the 7.6 ltsr itself, it is not recommended to deploy the Windows ten VDA.

3. Create a dedicated AD account for subsequent QDT installation, create a dedicated SQL account for easy SQL installation,

4. QDT can only be run on server systems and does not support client OS, or Windows 7,10.

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QDT key function Objectives when defining product features:

2. Not limited by the hypervisor platform. Given that the Citrix Xenapp/xendesktop product itself has no explicit limitations on the underlying hypervisor, as long as it is on Citrix's officially recognized hypervisor, Windows Server-based, The client virtual machine can complete the related deployment operation.

   https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131239  
   

4. It defines a variety of deployment methods including stand-alone, dual-machine, full-component high-availability, SQL mirroring, and so on, so that different users can choose different deployment modes based on their own needs.

   #这里的不同场景只是我个人的一种定义, not as a practical standard.

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6. A certain amount of optimization is done for the VDA. As I said in an earlier article, the VDA is the mirror that is delivered to the user, and if not a certain degree of customization, optimization is not entirely applicable to the user. So in Qdt, based on our experience, we made some related services and registry changes to meet the most basic requirements.

8. Because all the machines need to add domain, in order to facilitate operation, provide a PSH script one-click to complete the host domain, add account to the local admin operation.

QDT is very simple to use, but the pre-order preparation is essential:

2. A healthy Microsoft domain environment and domain controller,

4. A set of hypervisor environments (Xenserver,vsphere,hyper-v,nutanix) with sufficient compute, storage, and memory resources.
   

5. Prepare a set of Windows Server and Windows 7 operating systems that are already domain-based, as needed.

   1. Windows Server currently only supports Windows Server version R2

   2. Windows7 System Be sure to use Windows Update to update to the latest patches, otherwise it is possible to run the exception. (reasons can be seen in my pre-order article,http://kaiqian.blog.51cto.com/236001/1944955 )

   3. Make sure that the default administrator account in Windows 7 is enabled and the password is set

   4. All hosts need to run the accompanying PSH script (this script must run, otherwise it will cause subsequent QDT to fail) and join the domain environment where the hostname has been modified as needed.
      

6. Prepare the following installation media and store it in a shared directory that can be reached.

   Xendesktop_and_xendesktop_7_6_3000.iso (from the Citrix website or http://kaiqian.blog.51cto.com/236001/1681645 download)
   

   SQL Server 2014.iso (see Microsoft website)

   Powershelltools.msi (belongs to Sql-server-2014-feature-packs.zip)

   Sharedmanagementobjects.msi (belongs to Sql-server-2014-feature-packs.zip)

   Sqlsysclrtypes.msi (belongs to Sql-server-2014-feature-packs.zip)

   Sxs.zip (belongs to Sql-server-2014-feature-packs.zip)

   #SQL-server-2014-feature-packs.zip: HTTP://PAN.BAIDU.COM/S/1PKL7BBT  

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Once you have completed these preparations, you are ready to start the QDT installation.

2. The entire interface is very simple and intuitive, the first page selection includes installation account, installation media address, and other installation packages are fixed, here to do the curing process,

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4. On the second page enter the host address name such as DDC/SF, note here that the noun entered here is the pre-order of those Windows host, and ensure that the name has been matched,

   The meaning of the first and second is represented by #这里主 and times. The storefront name can be the same as the DDC name, meaning that the storefront host and the DDC host are on the same platform.

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6. The third page is setting up the database,

   #可以设定SQL为单台或者多台的SQL mirroring, and supports new or existing SQL environments.

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8. Finally, the deployment profile is summarized as a summary of the information.

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10. If there is no problem with deploying the installation, if all goes well, it will take about 90 minutes to complete all the installation work. There are also related days in the process of output, let know where the problem.

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This completes the environment deployment. There are several actions to follow after you complete the environment deployment:

1. To import lic on the first DDC, if the LIC name you purchased from Citrix does not match the first DDC, install a LIC server separately.

2. New host Connection on the DDC for easy subsequent desktop batch preparation.

3. Create a name for storefront group on DNS to do round robin or load balancer with three-party lb.

Finally provide a quick Deployment toolkits,

https://citrix.sharefile.com/d/seef008177924a529

#本工具Citirx目前不提供官方技术支持, if there is a problem with your tool deployment, manually install the environment yourself.

You are welcome to use and provide your feedback.

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This article is from the "Citrix in the Cloud" blog, be sure to keep this source http://kaiqian.blog.51cto.com/236001/1948294

Xenapp/xendesktop Quick Deploy tool-QDT for 7.6 LTSR