Adding Controllers to Your Farm

Adding Controllers to Your Farm

After you install your first controller and create a farm, as described in “Installing Desktop Delivery Controller on a Single Server” on page 47, you can add controllers to the farm.

Before you start adding a controller to a farm, ensure that you know the details of the farm data store, because you have to specify these during installation.

Citrix recommends that Desktop Delivery Controller installation be carried out by a domain user with local administrator rights. Before you start the installation process, ensure that you read “Using Active Directory with Desktop Delivery Controller” on page 15, and that the necessary Active Directory permissions are in place.

To add a controller to a farm

1. Insert the Desktop Delivery Controller installation media in the appropriate drive.

If the Welcome page does not appear automatically, use Windows Explorer to open Autorun.exe.

2. On the Welcome page, click Install Server Components.

The End User License Agreement appears.

3. Select I accept the license agreement, then click Next.

You cannot click Back on this page. To change the installation option you chose, you must click Cancel, then restart the installation.

4. On the Select Components page, clear the check boxes for any components you do not want to install on this server. As a guideline, if licensing and the management consoles are already installed on at least one other controller in the farm, you do not need to install them again.

5. On the Create or Join a Farm page, select Join existing farm.

6. Type the name of any controller that is already in the farm. This must be the NetBIOS name, not the DNS name; for example, serversc, rather than serversc.eng.glarox.net.

Click Next.

7. On the Optional Server Configuration page, you must specify where the farm data store is.
If the farm data store is on a controller in the farm, leave the check box cleared.

If the farm data store is on a separate database server, select the check box.

You are prompted for the server’s details; make sure you specify the same database server for all controllers in the farm.

Click Next.

8. On the Start Installation page, click Next. A progress indicator page appears that shows you the installation progress for each component.

When installation is complete, click Next.

9. On the Setup Complete page, click Finish.