Prerequisites

The Citrix XenDesktop installer automatically deploys all prerequisites, such as the .NET Framework and, Visual Studio C++ components, if they don't exist on the system and are required for installation.

For hardware prerequisites, you need to ensure that you have at least a 3 GB RAM on the Controller server, if you are doing a proof-of-concept deployment on a single server that will be configured as Controller, Studio, Director, Storefront, and also for licensing. The actual hardware sizing of your environment will be done on the basis of this analysis and customer requirements. This is covered later in Chapter 7, Troubleshooting Performance.

Note

To know more about all the system requirements to configure Citrix XenDesktop, you can refer to the Citrix eDocs at http://docs.citrix.com/en-us/xenapp-and-xendesktop/7-6/xad-system-requirements-76.html.

Another important aspect that we need take care of before starting our XenDesktop deployment is to make sure that we allow the...