Now that we’ve seen how to deploy applications and desktops using PVS, let’s take a look at how MCS (Machine Creation Services) works.
- Part 1: Deploying XenDesktop 7.6 – Introduction
- Part 1: Deploying XenDesktop 7.6 – Introduction
- Part 2: Deploying XenDesktop 7.6 – What’s the difference between FMA and IMA?
- Part 3: Deploying XenDesktop 7.6 – Delivery Controller, Studio, Director, and StoreFront
- Part 4: Deploying XenDesktop 7.6 – Site Creation
- Part 5: Deploying XenDesktop 7.6 – Virtual Delivery Agent
- Part 6: Deploying XenDesktop 7.6 – Configuring StoreFront
- Part 7: Deploying XenDesktop 7.6 – Publishing Applications and Desktops using PVS
- Part 8: Deploying XenDesktop 7.6 – Publishing Applications and Desktops using MCS
- Part 9: Deploying XenDesktop 7.6 – Installing Receiver and Configuring Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Part 10: Deploying XenDesktop 7.6 – Provisioning Netscaler
- Part 11: Deploying XenDesktop 7.6 – Load Balancing Storefront with Netscaler
- Part 12: Deploying XenDesktop 7.6 – Installing Provisioning Services (PVS)
- Part 13: Deploying XenDesktop 7.6 – Configuring Provisioning Services (PVS)
- Part 14: Deploying XenDesktop 7.6 – Capturing Image using PVS
- Part 15: Deploying XenDesktop 7.6 – PVS Streaming Wizard
Prerequisites
- Golden Image + Snapshot
- Citrix VDA deployed
- Citrix Receiver (Optional)
Creating Machine Catalog
Navigate to Studio -> Machine Catalogs -> Create Machine Catalog
Click Next on the Introduction page
Select the Operating System of your choice, for this particular post, I selected Windows Server OS as we’ll be deploying Windows Server 2012 R2 in the lab
On the Machine Management page, we’re going to select Machines that are power managed and under Deploy Machines Using settings, we’re going to chose Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS)
Remember how we had to create a virtual machine snapshot? Well this is the part where we put that snapshot to use. So, let’s select the virtual machine that we’re going to use as our Golden Image, expand the virtual machine and select the snapshot
We now need to size our future virtual machines as well as the total number of virtual machines that will be needed for this machine catalog
When new virtual machines are created, we need to ensure that basic configuration like joining the virtual machine to Active Directory works correctly, so in this section, we’re going to use the option of Create new Active Directory accounts (computer objects) and we’re also going to specify the location (OU) of where we want to keep these virtual machines in AD. Another important part to define is the Account naming scheme
Provide the Machine Catalog name and the Description
Once you’ve confirmed the settings, click on Finish to provision our Machine Catalog
Once the provisioning is complete, you should see the new virtual machine in the VMware vSphere environment, as well as the new Machine Catalog
The last thing we need to do is create the Delivery Group
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