Chapter 3. Managing Machine Catalogs, Hosts, and Personal vDisks

Now that you have gone through the steps to create a basic desktop and application delivery Site, you need to understand how to manage it. In the previous chapter, you have already used the tools needed to manage XenDesktop. In fact, you are now familiar with the machine catalog and desktop delivery group wizards. We will expand on the options available in these tools so that you are able to understand a wider range of options to create your XenDesktop Site. In this chapter, we will cover the following management topics of XenDesktop:

• Creating machine catalogs

• Managing machine catalogs

• Managing hosts (Hypervisors)

• Managing Personal vDisks

In XenDesktop 7.x, groups of virtual or physical desktops can be managed as an entity called a machine catalog. The administrator delivers the desktops to users by creating a machine catalog and then allocating the machines in the catalog to the users through the delivery groups. We will discuss...