How to Install Citrix Server.


1. Download XenServer form Citrix website. " http://www.citrix.com/products/xenserver/overview.html ". and click on "Download Free"

2. Install XenServer in Server.
Minimum Config:- 

1.    RAM 1 GB minimum, 2 GB or more recommended
2.    Disk space Locally attached storage (PATA, SATA, SCSI) with 16 GB of disk space                         minimum, 60 GB of disk space recommended 
3. General disk space requirements for VMs:

• Product installation creates two 4GB partitions for the XenServer host control domain; remaining space is available for VMs
• VMs based on the Debian templates are allocated a 4GB root device, and a 512MB swap device
• Linux VMs are allocated a root device of 8 GB
• Windows Vista VMs are allocated a root device of 16 GB, and other Windows VMs default to 8 GB.

Note

To run Windows VMs, hardware support for virtualization must be enabled on the

XenServer host. This is an option in the BIOS. It is possible your BIOS might have virtualization

support disabled. Consult your BIOS documentation for more details.

Installation Staps:- 

1. Boot the computer from the main installation CD,
2. Next, the "Welcome to XenServer" screen appears. Select Install or upgrade XenServer host and choose OK to proceed
3. The next screen displays a message telling you that the setup program will install XenServer on the computer, and warns that it will overwrite data on any hard drives that you select to use for the installation. Choose OK to proceed.
4. The XenServer End User License Agreement (EULA) is displayed. Use the up and down arrow keys to scroll through and read the agreement. Choose Accept EULA to proceed.
5. At this point, if the computer on which you are installing the XenServer host does not have a CPU which supports hardware virtualization, or if the support is disabled in the BIOS, a message appears to warn you that you will not be able to run Windows VMs. Choose OK to proceed.

Note that some systems have bugs in their BIOS software which can result in the setting being incorrect. If you get a spurious warning about a lack of hardware virtualization (or do not see a warning when you expected one), then perform a hard power cycle of the host and restart the installation. You should also check the hardware manufacturer's support site for BIOS upgrades

     6. If the installer detects a previously-installed version of XenServer host, you are offered the choice to    perform a clean installation, or to upgrade the existing version, which preserves any of the VMs present.  Choose an installation type as appropriate and select OK to proceed, If you select to upgrade an existing version, you will get a message that the installer is going to create a backupof the existing installation. Select Continue to proceed

   7. If you have multiple local hard disks, you are asked to choose the Primary Disk for the installation. Select the desired disk and choose OK to proceed. After selecting the primary one, you are also prompted to choose if you want any of the other drives to be formatted for use by XenServer for VM storage. Select and choose OK to proceed. If the computer has a single hard disk, these two screens do not appear.

8. The next screen asks you to specify the source of the installation packages. If you are installing off the CD, you will most likely want to select Local media (CD-ROM). If you are installing via PXE you will most likely want to select HTTP or FTP or NFS, as appropriate. If you select HTTP or FTP or NFS, you are next prompted to set up Networking so that the installation script can connect to the product repository.

If the computer has multiple network interfaces, you are prompted to select one of them to be used to access the XenServer product repository. Select and choose OK to proceed. If the computer has a single network interface, that interface is used to access the XenServer product repository and no prompt is displayed.
You can select Automatic configuration (DHCP) to configure the NIC using DHCP, or Static configuration,
which prompts you to configure the NIC's properties manually. Following that, you are prompted to provide the URL or NFS server and path where the installation media are, as appropriate.

Note

To be part of a resource pool, XenServer hosts need to have static IP addresses.

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