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Mastering Citrix XenDesktop

By : GUNNALA GOVARDHAN, Daniele Tosatto
Book Image

Mastering Citrix XenDesktop

By: GUNNALA GOVARDHAN, Daniele Tosatto

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Citrix XenDesktop
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating and configuring machine catalogs and delivery groups


In the previous section, we learned how to install Virtual Desktop Agent in a Windows Desktop machine.

Now, let's discover how to create machine catalogs and delivery groups in order to provide virtual desktops to the users.

A machine catalog is a collection of identical machines. They can be either virtual or physical. They can host either a supported desktop or server operating system.

You create delivery groups to provide desktops and applications to the users; in a delivery group, you can mix machines from different machine catalogs.

Machine catalogs and delivery groups are created by using Citrix Studio.

Before discovering how to create the machine catalog, we need to learn how to create a master image for Machine Creation Services.

The creation process is very simple; to create the master image...