{"id":749,"date":"2012-06-26T17:50:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T16:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=749"},"modified":"2012-06-27T17:27:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T16:27:30","slug":"what-does-it-take-to-run-a-citrix-vdi-in-a-box-proof-of-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=749","title":{"rendered":"What does it take to run a Citrix VDI-in-a-Box Proof of Concept?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the wonderful things about <strong>Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V<\/strong> is that any driver that was written for Windows 7 will also run in Server 2008 R2! As such its very easy to take any Window 7 compatible PC (with a processor that can do hardware assisted virtualization like the <strong>AMD A<\/strong> and <strong>FX series<\/strong>) and turn it into a <strong>Citrix VDI-in-a-Box proof of concept<\/strong> (POC).<\/p>\n<p>In the video below you can see me doing just that with a HP 6465b notebook (AMD A6 powered) which has been enhanced with a OCZ\u00a0Agility 3 SSD.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/927D4QCUhB8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read on as well for a list of parts that cost <strong>less than \u00a3265<\/strong> (exVAT)\u00a0 that you could use to run your own proof of concept for 3-4 VDI users!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/vertex-4-62.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-751\" title=\"OCZ Vertex 4 SSD\" src=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/vertex-4-62-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/vertex-4-62-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/vertex-4-62.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Case &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=957&amp;awinaffid=88926&amp;clickref=vdi&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.novatech.co.uk%2Fproducts%2Fcomponents%2Fcases%2Fcases%2Fcorona-black.html\">Novatech Corona Micro ATX<\/a> &#8211; \u00a321.65 &#8211; Cheap and cheerful case with a PSU<\/p>\n<p>SSD &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=957&amp;awinaffid=88926&amp;clickref=vdi&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.novatech.co.uk%2Fproducts%2Fcomponents%2Fharddrives-internal%2Fsolidstate%2F128gbandabove%2Fvtx4-25sat3-128g.html\">OCZ Vertex 4 128GB<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; \u00a391.99 &#8211; Powerful latest generation SSD<\/p>\n<p>RAM &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=957&amp;awinaffid=88926&amp;clickref=vdi&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.novatech.co.uk%2Fproducts%2Fcomponents%2Fmemory-pc%2Fddr3-pc3-12800%2F1600mhz%2Fcmz8gx3m2a1600c9.html\">Corsair Vengeance 8GB<\/a> &#8211; \u00a337.49 &#8211; Just some RAM plain and simple<\/p>\n<p>Motherboard &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=957&amp;awinaffid=88926&amp;clickref=vdi&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.novatech.co.uk%2Fproducts%2Fcomponents%2Fmotherboards%2Famdfm1allchipsetmotherboards%2Fa75m.html\">ASRock A75M<\/a> &#8211; \u00a344.16 &#8211; Comes with 6Gb\/s SATA ports to take best use of the SSD<\/p>\n<p>CPU &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=957&amp;awinaffid=88926&amp;clickref=vdi&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.novatech.co.uk%2Fproducts%2Fcomponents%2Fprocessors%2Famda4%2Fa6%2Fa8seriesfm1socket%2Fad3850wngxbox.html\">AMD A8-3850<\/a> &#8211; \u00a366.65 &#8211; Quad core CPU with gaming quality graphics built right on the chip<\/p>\n<p>One of the great things about VDI-in-a-Box is that you can <strong>move your testing environment to production<\/strong> just by <strong>pointing your new server at the testing one<\/strong> for it to go and migrate the images\/setting\/so on over.<br \/>\nBest of all you will have a new quad core, SSD powered PC to play around with after!<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citrix.com\/vdi-in-a-box\">Citrix VDI-in-a-Box<\/a> click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citrix.com\/vdi-in-a-box\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the wonderful things about Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V is that any driver that was written for Windows 7 will also run in Server 2008 R2! As such its very easy to take any Window 7 compatible PC (with a processor that can do hardware assisted virtualization like the AMD A and FX series) and turn it into&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=749\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,7],"tags":[62,9,64,80,39,8,102],"series":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-software","category-virtualization","tag-10zig","tag-citrix","tag-citrix-vdi-in-a-box","tag-hyper-v","tag-ssd","tag-vdi","tag-windows-server-2008-r2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}