In this exercise you will use perform “Day 2” operations for a XenDesktop environment, including expanding an existing Machine Catalog with more desktop VMs, and rolling out an updated gold image to your non-persistent Machine Catalog.
In Citrix Studio > Machine Catalogs, right-click your Non-Persistent Machine Catalog and select Add Machines.
Specify the Number of machines to add and click Next.
Confirm the existing OU and naming scheme and click Next.
Review configuration and click Finish.
In Citrix Studio > Delivery Groups, right-click your Non-Persistent Delivery Group and select Add Machines.
Increment the number of Machines for this Delivery Group and click Next > Finish.
Edit the Non-Persistent Delivery Group Power Management to power on your added desktop capacity.
Observe the additional W10NP-### VMs are powered on in Prism and appear Registered in Citrix Studio.
In Prism > VM > Table, select the W10-Gold VM and click Power on.
Once the VM has started, click Launch Console.
Install or update an application and then shut down the VM.
Once W10-Gold is powered off, select the VM and click Take Snapshot
Specify a Name for the snapshot (e.g. “W10-Gold vYYYYMMDD-X - Installed Sublime”) and click Submit.
In Citrix Studio > Machine Catalogs, right-click your Non-Persistent Machine Catalog and select Update Machines. Observe that Update Machines is not an option for your Persistent Machine Catalog, updates to persistent desktops are handled via traditional patch management tools.
Click Next.
Select your updated W10-Gold VM snapshot and click Next.
Fill out the following fields and click Next:
Review configuration and click Finish.
A new preparation VM will be cloned and booted to prepare the new snapshot.
After the preparation VM is shut down and removed, Prism > Tasks will display the changing power state of VMs as they’re powered off. After several minutes you’ll see VM disk update tasks, which is MCS updating the cloned disk for the provisioned VMs to point to the new prepared snapshot.
Log in to Citrix StoreFront as USER3 and launch your Pooled desktop to verify the presented desktop reflects the updated image.
In Citrix Studio > Machine Catalogs, note you now have an option to rollback your Non-Persistent Machine Catalog to the previous snapshot.