The Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service provide a virtual desktop and app solution, offered as a cloud service. The Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop service provider offer complete control of applications, virtual machines, and security, including access to the device. Users use desktops and applications irrespective of the device’s operating system or interface. Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop service can deliver secure virtual desktops and apps via any public cloud or on-premise infrastructure. Typically, Citrix Apps and Desktop Service are deployed as a single site with multiple resource locations. Citrix manages the user access, and management components and services in the cloud and the applications delivered to the end-users reside on any of the machines. In this article, we talk about steps to configure the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop Service (CVADS), establish a connection with Google cloud, and deploy published applications for users. By enrolling for the CWS 215 course, you can quickly deploy, install, set up, and configure the profile and policies and set up the security features of the on-premise Virtual Apps and Desktop solutions.
Steps to Configure CVADS
- Gain Access to the Virtual Apps and Desktops Service Console
- Visit https://cloud.citrix.com, and with your username and password, log in to the Citrix Cloud console.
- Select the menu and choose My Services
- Click on Virtual Apps and Desktops
- Choose ‘Manage to access the Virtual Apps and Desktops Service’ console and view all the options.
- Configure Hosting Connection and Resources
In the next step, you must configure the hosting connection to let Citrix Cloud manage app and desktop resources on Google cloud. The connection configuration hosting is completed through the CVADS console.
- Click on Hosting from the options.
- Click on Add Connections and Resources.
- From the drop-down menu, choose Google Cloud Platform.
- Click on Import Key and choose the JSON key generated.
- Once you import the key, the Service Account ID auto-populates.
- Choose the zone name as Server VDA – Google US-West1.
- Give a unique connection name.
- Select Citrix Provisioning tools and click Next.
- The project fields must correspond to your Google project.
- Choose the region as us-west1 and click Next.
- Give a unique name for the network connection.
- Select the Citrix cloud network in the Virtual Private Cloud section.
- Confirm the subnet and click Next.
- Accept the default options and click Next.
- Review the connection parameters and click on Finish.
- Now you will have a functional hosting connection, and the next step is to prepare the Citrix Virtual Delivery agent to execute the operations.
- Install the Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) Software
Before the machine catalog can be provisioned, you must install the Virtual Delivery Agent software on the master image of the OS. The VDA software allows the resources and machines to be made available to the users and register with the Citrix Cloud Connector.
Log in to the virtual machine with the appropriate domain credentials.
- You will require a Citrix amount to log in and download multi-session VDA. Don’t have an already existing account? Then you must choose ‘Create Citrix Account’ and create a new account.
- Once you log in with the proper credentials, you can download the OS Virtual Delivery Agent and Save it.
- Click Open Folder, right-click the VDA software installer, and choose Run as administrator.
- Choose the option Create a master MCS image and click Next.
- Choose the default options and click Next.
- Give the valid domain name as the first Cloud Connector.
- Click Test Connection and validate the communication between the Cloud connector and the VDA. Click on Add.
- Similarly, input the 2nd Cloud connector name and validate the connection. Click on Add.
- Once you confirm that both connectors are added, click Next on the following three screens.
- Review the summary screen and click on Install.
- Uncheck the Collect diagnostics option and click Next
- Click on Finish. and the installer reboots the system to finish the installation process.
- Create a Machine Catalog
The next step is to create a machine catalog that contains physical or virtual machines. A virtual machine is made from a master image. Once you start a master image, you can begin a catalog after specifying the image that is used to create the VMs.
- Create a Delivery Group
Once you create the machine catalog, create a Delivery Group that specifies what users can access machines in the catalog and what applications they can access.
Conclusion
If you are planning to move to Citrix cloud, you can enroll in the CWS 215 course. The abilities needed to install, manage and configure the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment can be equipped by this course.
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