DDC Installation Prerequisites:
- Windows Server only!
- Windows Server has to be domain joined!
- Administrative account used for installation has to be a domain user and a member of local admin group.
- For POC, following components can be installed on same server, however it is not recommended to have such configurations in productive environment due to lack of redundancy.
- DDC
- SQL
- License server
- Storefront
- ServerOS VDA can be installed as well to check functionality. NEVER in PROD!
DB Prerequisites
- DDC communicates to SQL server to store site information. DB has to be in place before setting up the DDC
- SQL Express can be used for POC but not in PROD due to lack of HA and scalability
DB Considerations:
- Site DB can be set up during site setup from Citrix Studio console. If no DB exists, account used to create the DB has to have the following permissions:
- Local Administrator
- Domain User
- SQL Server dbcreator
- SQL Server sysadmin
- If the admin account does not have the proper DB permissions, scripts can be generated from Studio and passed to a DB admin to be executed.
- During runtime, DDC Services use the DDC machine account to access the DB and need READ/WRITE/EXECUTE permissions
- Communication from DDC to DB Server is done over port TCP 1433 (so firewall rules must exist to allow the traffic between these 2 components)
DDC installation Process:
- Installation of DDC can be done either via CLI or GUI
CLI:
- Navigate to installation media and execute “XenDesktopServerSetup.exe /components CONTROLLER”
Additional parameters can be added to the command as follows:
- /nosql (prevents installation of SQLExpress)
- /quiet (suppresses the GUI)
Example: “XenDesktopServerSetup.exe /components CONTROLLER /nosql /quiet”
GUI:
- Start the installation from the installation media
- Select “Delivery Controller” from the left hand side (please note that if you were to do this from a Desktop OS, this option would not be available/grayed out)
- License Server and Storefront should be installed on separate servers.
- If a fully-fledged SQL server is already installed, uncheck the “SQL Express” Installation
- DDC default needed open ports are 80 & 443. This can be done automatically or manually
- Other prerequisites are identified and installed automatically if they were not present at this moment
- Once all components have been installed, this message will be displayed and you have the option to Launch Studio automatically
