XenApp / XenDesktop Checklis

Design Decisions
Refer to your Success Accelerator online implementation guide for guidance and additional detail.

Platform Layer
Storage and Provisioning Layer
Desktop Layer

Application Layer
Desktop Delivery Layer

Networking Layer
Access Layer

Operational Layer

Desktop Catalogs and Groups

Refer to your Success Accelerator online implementation guide for guidance and additional detail.

Desktop Catalog #1
Desktop Catalog #2
(if applicable)

Desktop Group #1
Desktop Group #2
(if applicable)

Pre-implementation Requirements
Infrastructure hardware

Availability of infrastructure components

Availability of Citrix licenses

Availability of XenDesktop Media

XenDesktop Policies

Configured Policies List

Policy - 1

Policy - 2

Policy -3
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Physical desktops / blade PCs

XenServer
Hyper-V
ESX/vSphere

Storage (virtualization / provisioning)

Protocol _______
IOPS est. _______
Disk space _______

Machine Creation Services (MCS)

Master VM _______

Provisioning Services (PVS)

1 farm
2 farms
Other _______

1 site
2 sites
Other _______

1 server per site

2 servers per site
Other _______

Database
SQL Express
SQL Std/Ent
Servername _______
Name of DB _______
Backup frequency _______

Database redundancy
None
Hypervisor level
Clustering (Std/Ent Only)
Mirroring (Std/Ent Only)

vDisk Store
Local disk
NAS (SMB/CIFS)
SAN (iSCSI/FC)
 Write Cache
At PVS
In Target RAM
At Target Disk

Boot process
PXE
DHCP 66/67
Boot ISO / modified MBR

License server
Servername _______
Port _______

OS Type
Win 7 32-bit
Win 7 64-bit
WinXP 32-bit
WinXP 64-bit
WinVista 32-bit
WinVista 64-bit

Resource allocation
vCPU
1
2
Other ________

RAM
Size (MB) ________

Disk
Size (GB) ________

User Profile type

Local
Roaming
Mandatory
Advanced (Citrix Profile Management)

Printing mechanism
Citrix Universal Printing
Native Drivers
3rd Part print solution ) ________

Client resources to be mapped

Disk(s)
Printer(s)
USB devices
 Audio
Twain devices
Serial Ports
Parallel Ports

Delivery method
Locally installed on the VM
Hosted on XenApp
Streamed with XenApp
Streamed with App-V
VM-hosted apps
Xendesktop delivery
Location of application backends
Centralized (close to desktops)
Decentral

Sites
1
2
Other _______

Site Failover
None
Web Interface
Web Interface – Site Recovery
NetScaler – GSLB

Controllers
1 per site
2 per site
Other _______

Database
SQL Express
SQL Std/Ent
Servername _______
Name of DB _______
Backup frequency _______

Database redundancy
None
Hypervisor level
Clustering (Std/Ent Only)
Mirroring (Std/Ent Only)

License server
Servername _______
Port _______

AD Integration
 Domain name _______
Dedicated OU (virtual desktops)
Name _______
Integrate in existing structure

Policy definition
Policies defined in Active Directory
Policies defined in the database

DHCP
Scope ___.___.___.___
Mask ___.___.___.___
Available IPs _______
Gateway ___.___.___.___
DNS1 ___.___.___.___
DNS2 ___.___.___.___

DHCP (PVS specific)

Option 66 ___.___.___.___
Option 67 _____________

DHCP redundancy
None
Split-scope
Cluster

WAN connections
Bandwidth per user (est.)_________
WAN Optimization
Model (datacenter)___________
Model (branch)______________
Firewalling
ICA Port_____________
CGP Port_____________
Web Interface Port__________

End-Point OS
Windows
Mac OS X
Linux
iOS
Android
Other_________

Citrix Receiver deployment/maint.

None (manual install)
Web Interface
Merchandising Server
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Web Interface Servers

1
2
Other _______

Web Interface – High Availability

None
DNS Round-Robin
Network Load Balancing
NetScaler (Hardware LB)

Remote Access
None
ICA Proxy – Mode
Full SSL VPN
Access Gateway Edition _________

Migration Process
Pilot group ______________
“Big bang”
“Phased”
1st group_____________
2nd group_____________
3rd group_____________

Operational Procedures to be changed

1st ______________
2nd ______________
3rd ______________

ne implementation guide for guidance and additional detail.

Type
Pooled
Dedicated
Existing
Physical
Streamed

Host
Name ________

VMs
Amount ________
 Type
Pooled
Dedicated
Existing
Physical
Streamed

Host
Name ________

VMs
Amount ________

Based on catalog
1st ____________
2nd ____________
3rd ___________

User group(s)
1st ____________
2nd ____________
3rd ___________

Delegation
1st ____________
2nd ____________
3rd ___________

Based on catalog
1st ____________
2nd ____________
3rd ___________

User group(s)
1st ____________
2nd ____________
3rd ___________

Delegation
1st ____________
2nd ____________
3rd ___________

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Secure required server hardware (virtualization-enabled)
Ensure that the server BIOS is up-to-date
Secure required storage and networking components
Active Directory
A domain admin account
Organizational Unit (OU)
DNS
DHCP (with sufficient IP addresses)

Availability of static IP addresses for XenDesktop components

Sufficient
Have storage Server
the License space to hostready
name infrastructure
or use anrelated data
existing Citrix
License Server.
Have the required Citrix XenDesktop license file available for
the Citrix License Server.
Have the XenDesktop DVD or ISO available
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