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.

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Visit http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/xenapp-xendesktop-75/cds-manage-delivery-groups-wrapper.html for obtaining more details.

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...