The XenDesktop core components require three virtual machines, as detailed in the following table.
Component | Virtual machine software | CPUs | Memory | Hard drive |
Citrix Delivery Controller | Microsoft Windows Server 2016 | 1 | 4 GB | 40 GB |
Citrix StoreFront | Microsoft Windows Server 2016 | 1 | 4 GB | 40 GB |
Citrix Virtual Delivery Agent | Microsoft Windows 10 Create the master image used to deploy a pool from XenDesktop on this virtual machine. |
Specifications depend on the size of your workload. |
The following table lists the minimum hardware requirements for all XenDesktop components.
Component | Minimum requirements |
All core components on one server for evaluation only, not a production deployment | 5 GB RAM |
All core components on one server for test deployment or a small production environment | 12 GB RAM |
Citrix Delivery Controller | 5 GB RAM, 800 MB hard disk |
Citrix Studio | 1 GB RAM, 100 MB hard disk |
Citrix Director | 2 GB RAM, 200 MB hard disk |
Citrix StoreFront | 2 GB RAM |
License server | 2 GB RAM |