This section uses vCenter and vSphere client to build a clean Windows 7 image with no hardware dependencies and create a master or gold image to use in XenDesktop for MCS or PVS.įirst, log in to the vSphere server and create a Windows 7 image from scratch.

This procedure can work for Citrix Provisioning Server by adding an additional step to reverse-image the virtual machine to VHD format then running the Citrix Provisioning Server Optimization tool. This is a standard VMWare VMDK file format which is best suited for Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS). The proof-of-concept image is Windows 7 32 Bit. Now that we have a XenDesktop proof-of-concept site and connection to vSphere the next step is the creation of the gold image for Windows 7.

Latest Virtual Desktop Agent (VDA) installed to correspond with XenApp Site Controller versioning.

Latest version of Citrix Receiver deployed as required by Citrix StoreFront versioning.

Latest version of Citrix StoreFront installed.

Business applications installed in XenApp.

Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 Citrix Studio Configure VMware Connection.

Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 Citrix Studio Configure New Site.

Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 VMware SDK Certificate.

Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 Core Software Install.

This article assumes the following prerequisites Skill Level: I've used ESXi for a couple years now but I'm certainly no expert.Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 Citrix Studio Configure New Site , discusses XenDesktop Site and creating a hosting connection to VMware vSphere using the I'm not exactly sure where to start with this one.

CentOS 6 (Network Services)-000001-delta.vmdk.

Within the VM's directory there are 7 files: VMware ESX cannot find the virtual disk 'CentOS 6 (Network Services)-000001.vmdk'.

The system cannot find the file specified Here is the full error:Ĭannot open the disk 'CentOS 6 (Network Services)-000001.vmdk' or one of the snapshot disks it depends on. It is telling me that it can't find the vmdk file. After starting up one of my VM's is giving me an error when I try to boot it. I shut down all VMs and my ESXi host in order to add a new hard drive.

Xendesktop server vdi has 3 vmdk