Geek Week VDI: Citrix XenDesktop initial installation video (Part 1)

Written on Mar 29 2010 Filed under: Geek Week, Citrix XenDesktop, VDI 10,496 views, 6 comments

by Brian Madden

In this video from Geek Week: VDI, Citrix's Frank Anderson takes us through the initial installation and configuration of Citrix XenDesktop 4 on a vanilla XenServer environment. This video includes the installation and configuration of:

• Citrix XenDesktop Desktop Delivery Controller
• Building our sample Windows XP VM
• Installation of the Virtual Desktop Agent (VDA) into our VM
• Initial HDX connection testing.

For a full analysis of the results of this video, read our summary of how Citrix XenDesktop 4 did in our Geek Week: VDI project. This video is part of our "Geek Week: VDI" project where Gabe and Brian tested five VDI products in five days. More information about this project, as well as videos from this vendor and others, is available at www.brianmadden.com/geekweek.

Comments

Rich Brumpton wrote re: Geek Week VDI: Citrix XenDesktop initial installation video (Part 1)

on Mon, Mar 29 2010 12:37 PM

OMFG, you really put a VMware View commercial at the beginning of the XenDesktop video? wow.

Cameron Gladman wrote re: Geek Week VDI: Citrix XenDesktop initial installation video (Part 1)

on Tue, Mar 30 2010 12:05 PM

Yeah I noticed that too...if I were Citrix Marketing, I'd be super pissed.

Brian...you HAVE to nuke the VMWare View ad before the Citrix XenDesktop ad!!!!!!

Cameron Gladman wrote re: Geek Week VDI: Citrix XenDesktop initial installation video (Part 1)

on Tue, Mar 30 2010 12:07 PM

I noticed that too...

BRIAN!!! You HAVE to NUKE the VMWare View ad before your XenDesktop demonstration! Citrix Marketing would be super pissed!!!!

Cameron Gladman wrote re: Geek Week VDI: Citrix XenDesktop initial installation video (Part 1)

on Tue, Mar 30 2010 12:14 PM

...ignore the double post...my bad for not refreshing.

Keith Plant wrote re: Geek Week VDI: Citrix XenDesktop initial installation video (Part 1)

on Wed, Apr 14 2010 11:23 AM

Does anyone know how we can download these videos for offline viewing? Overseas on a military base, the videos are not useful when caching after every 5 seconds of playing.  Brian?

Stephen Rae wrote re: Geek Week VDI: Citrix XenDesktop initial installation video (Part 1)

on Thu, Oct 28 2010 8:03 PM

Thanks for this video.

It was cool to see the Cleveland Browns and the Ohio State Penant in the background on the walls.

I am sure this is Brian's office. :)

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