You need a place to store the XenDesktop system database, and it uses a SQL Server. In a Proof-of-Concept or test environment such as ours, we can use the local disk of the XenDesktop Delivery Controller to install a SQL Server. A SQL Server is installed with the XenDesktop product; you just have to specify where you want it to live. Each component in XenDesktop has minimum storage requirements as explained in the following table:
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The XenDesktop components' storage requirements | ||
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Component |
Supported operating systems |
Minimum storage |
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Hypervisor host |
XenServer 6.2, 6.1, 6.0.2 vSphere 5.1 Update 1, 5.0 Update 2 Hyper-V 2012 SP1 |
16 GB minimum, 60 GB recommended |
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XenCenter |
Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 |
100 MB minimum |
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Delivery Controller |
Windows Server 2012, Standard and Data center Windows Server 2008 R2, Standard, Enterprise, Data center |
100 MB |
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SQL database |
SQL Server 2012 SP1, Express, Standard, Enterprise SQL Server... | |