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Unidesk with Hyper-V Setup Part 2

  • Rory Monaghan
  • March 6, 2015
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Now that you’ve got Unidesk installed on your Hyper-V host and your Management Appliance VM has been created, you’re ready to configure Unidesk.

Step9

Browse to the System Tab along the top. Then to Settings and Configuration and Click Edit on Cachepoint Appliance Settings

UnideskError

At this point you’ll receive the error above. I only show you this because when I was originally followed the training videos, they went through this step without receiving the error. I believe I had some network related hiccups but never fear, if you do receive this error, I’ve got you covered.

Step9-1

Sign in as the root account on the MA VM (If you need the root credentials. You can contact Unidesk or I can help, just e-mail me)

When logged in, type nano /etc/hosts and hit enter

Add a line at the bottom that shows something like this:

IP Address of your Hyper-v Server  FQDN of the server

192.168.0.26 RORYMONPS.homelab.rorymon.com

Save the file. I believe to do this, you hit Ctrl + X and then confirm you wish to save\overwrite.

Note, you’ll want to do this on the Cachepoint VM once that’s setup also. I’ll remind you to repeat these steps later 🙂

Step10

Now, if you try to edit the Cachepoint from the Console again, you should be able to see your file system. Browse to your Cachepoint template. The location of which was displayed as part of the initial install in Part 1. Click Choose

Step11

Click Save

Step12

Now that we’ve got our template setup, we can create our Cachepoint VM. Browse to System then the Manage Appliances tab and on the far right click Create Cachepoint

Step13

Provide a name for your Master Cachepoint and select a Cachepoint Host from the dropdown. Click the down arrow

Step14

Browse to a location to store your Boot Images

Step15

Browse for a good location to store the cachepoint and layers you create

Step16

In my setup, I selected the root of my secondary partition drive

Step17

Once both locations have been entered, click the down arrow

Step18

Select the virtual switch from the drop down. Here you can set a Dynamic IP for the Cachepoint or a static. Again, for an Enterprise environment in a Production setup. It’s best to set a static IP address. Then click the down arrow.

Step19

Click Create Cachepoint Appliance

Step20

You should be able to expand the Tasks section on the bottom of the screen. You’ll see a task running, you can go ahead and double click on that sucker and it will show you the progress. Wait for this to complete.

Once completed, browse to the Cachepoint VM, login with the root account and repeat the steps of adding the server IP and hostname.

If you’re setting up for an Enterprise environment, this would be the time that you would go ahead and create another cachepoint, possibly several. I only require one.

On your Hyper-V Host execute the Hyper-V Broker agent setup.

Step13

 

Click Next >

Step14

 

Click ‘I accept the terms in the license agreement’ and then click Next >

Step15

 

Click Next >

Step16

 

Click Next >

Step17

 

Click Install

Step18

 

Click Finish

Navigate back to the Unidesk Management Console

Step19

 

Go to System, then Settings and Configuration. Click Edit on the Broker Settings.

Step20

 

Enter the name of the machine you just installed the Broker Agent on, provide a description, the Brokers IP address and the port then you can Test the Connection, hit Apply and then Click Save.

Step23

Enter a name for the Junction. Enter a Domain Controller for the Service Address. Click Test Connection and then click the down arrow

Step24

 

Enter account details for an account which will be able to read AD and the click the down arrow

Step25

 

Use the String for your Domain and the NetBIOS Name and the choose to Test and then hit the down arrow

Step26

 

Select a Folder Location and Click the down arrow

Step27

Set the mapping for your AD. For mine, the default did just fine. Click the down arrow

Step28

 

Click Create Directory Junction

Step29

 

Your AD should now be represented.

So at this point, my Unidesk configuration is complete. Now I can get into the fun stuff. Creating my layers

 

Setup Unidesk 3.0,Unidesk 3.0
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Microsoft MVP. Citrix CTA. IGEL Insider. VMware EUC Champion & vExpert.
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