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Typically, Linux is packaged in a form known as a Linux distribution or distro for short for both desktop and server use. The defining component of a Linux distribution is the Linux kernel,1. September 1. 7, 1. Linus Torvalds. 1. Many Linux distributions use the word Linux in their name. The Free Software Foundation uses the name GNULinux to refer to the operating system family, as well as specific distributions, to emphasize that most Linux distributions are not just the Linux kernel, and that they have in common not only the kernel, but also numerous utilities and libraries, a large proportion of which are from the GNU project. This has led to some controversy. Linux was originally developed for personal computers based on the Intel x. Because of the dominance of the Linux kernel based Android OS on smartphones, Linux has the largestinstalled base of all general purpose operating systems. Linux is also the leading operating system on servers and other big iron systems such as mainframe computers, and the only OS used on TOP5. November 2. 01. 7, having before gradually eliminated all competitors. It is used by around 2. The Chromebook, which runs the Linux kernel based Chrome OS, dominates the US K1. US. 2. 3 Linux also runs on embedded systemsdevices whose operating system is typically built into the firmware and is highly tailored to the system. This includes Ti. Vo and similar DVR devices, network routers, facility automation controls, televisions,2. Many smartphones and tablet computers run Android and other Linux derivatives. The development of Linux is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration. The underlying source code may be used, modified and distributedcommercially or non commerciallyby anyone under the terms of its respective licenses, such as the GNU General Public License. Some of the most popular and mainstream Linux distributions2. Arch Linux, Cent. OS, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo Linux, Linux Mint, Mageia, open. SUSE and Ubuntu, together with commercial distributions such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Distributions include the Linux kernel, supporting utilities and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project, and usually a large amount of application software to fulfil the distributions intended use. Desktop Linux distributions include a windowing system, such as X1. Mir or a Wayland implementation, and an accompanying desktop environment such as GNOME or KDE Plasma 5 some distributions may also include a less resource intensive desktop, such as LXDE or Xfce. Install To Gac Command Line here. Distributions intended to run on servers may omit all graphical environments from the standard install, and instead include other software to set up and operate a solution stack such as LAMP. Because Linux is freely redistributable, anyone may create a distribution for any intended use. HistoryeditPrecursorseditThe Unix operating system was conceived and implemented in 1. AT Ts Bell Laboratories in the United States by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Douglas Mc. Ilroy, and Joe Ossanna. First released in 1. Unix was written entirely in assembly language, as was common practice at the time. Later, in a key pioneering approach in 1. C programming language by Dennis Ritchie with the exception of some hardware and IO routines. The availability of a high level language implementation of Unix made its porting to different computer platforms easier. Due to an earlier antitrust case forbidding it from entering the computer business, AT T was required to license the operating systems source code to anyone who asked. As a result, Unix grew quickly and became widely adopted by academic institutions and businesses. In 1. 98. 4, AT T divested itself of Bell Labs freed of the legal obligation requiring free licensing, Bell Labs began selling Unix as a proprietary product, where users werent legally allowed to modify Unix. The GNU Project, started in 1. Richard Stallman, had the goal of creating a complete Unix compatible software system composed entirely of free software. Work began in 1. 98. Later, in 1. 98. 5, Stallman started the Free Software Foundation and wrote the GNU General Public License GNU GPL in 1. By the early 1. 99. Unix shell, and a windowing system were completed, although low level elements such as device drivers, daemons, and the kernel, called GNUHurd, were stalled and incomplete. Linus Torvalds has stated that if the GNU kernel had been available at the time 1. Although not released until 1. BSD, from which Net. BSD, Open. BSD and Free. BSD descended, predated that of Linux. Torvalds has also stated that if 3. BSD had been available at the time, he probably would not have created Linux. MINIX was created by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, a computer science professor, and released in 1. Unix like operating system targeted at students and others who wanted to learn the operating system principles. Although the complete source code of MINIX was freely available, the licensing terms prevented it from being free software until the licensing changed in April 2. CreationeditIn 1. University of Helsinki, Torvalds became curious about operating systems. Frustrated by the licensing of MINIX, which at the time limited it to educational use only,3. Linux kernel. Torvalds began the development of the Linux kernel on MINIX and applications written for MINIX were also used on Linux. Later, Linux matured and further Linux kernel development took place on Linux systems. GNU applications also replaced all MINIX components, because it was advantageous to use the freely available code from the GNU Project with the fledgling operating system code licensed under the GNU GPL can be reused in other computer programs as long as they also are released under the same or a compatible license. Torvalds initiated a switch from his original license, which prohibited commercial redistribution, to the GNU GPL. Developers worked to integrate GNU components with the Linux kernel, making a fully functional and free operating system. Linux. Linus Torvalds had wanted to call his invention Freax, a portmanteau of free, freak, and x as an allusion to Unix. During the start of his work on the system, some of the projects makefiles included the name Freax for about half a year. Torvalds had already considered the name Linux, but initially dismissed it as too egotistical. In order to facilitate development, the files were uploaded to the FTP server ftp. FUNET in September 1. Flash. Stack with Cisco UCS and Pure Storage Flash. Arraym for 5. 00. Citrix Xen. Desktop Users. Cisco Validated Designs include systems and solutions that are designed, tested, and documented to facilitate and improve customer deployments. These designs incorporate a wide range of technologies and products into a portfolio of solutions that have been developed to address the business needs of customers. Cisco and Pure Storage have partnered to deliver this document, which serves as a specific step by step guide for implementing this solution. This Cisco Validated Design provides an efficient architectural design that is based on customer requirements. The solution that follows is a validated approach for deploying Cisco and Pure Storage technologies as a shared, high performance, resilient, virtual desktop infrastructure. This document provides a reference architecture and design guide for up to 5. Cisco UCS and Pure Storage Flash. Arraym with Citrix Xen. App server based sessions, Xen. Desktop persistent Windows 1. Xen. Desktop pooled Windows 1. VMware v. Sphere 6. The solution is a predesigned, best practice data center architecture built on the Cisco Unified Computing System UCS, the Cisco Nexus 9. Cisco MDS 9. 00. 0 family of Fibre Channel switches and Pure Storage all flash array. This solution is 1. Cisco UCS B2. 00 M4 blade server booting VMware v. Sphere 6. 0 Update 1 via fibre channel SAN from the Pure Storage Flash. ArrayM5. 0 storage array The virtual desktops are powered by Citrix Provisioning Services 7. Citrix Xen. Desktop 7. Windows 1. 081. Server 2. R2 or Server 2. R2 server desktops, providing unparalleled scale and management simplicity. Citrix Xen. Desktop pooled Window 1. Windows 1. 0 desktops 1. Citrix Xen. App Server 2. R2 RDS server based desktop sessions 2. Pure Storage array. Where applicable the document provides best practice recommendations and sizing guidelines for customer deployment of this solution. The solution provides outstanding virtual desktop end user experience as measured by the Login VSI 4. Knowledge Worker workload running in benchmark mode. The 5. 00. 0 seat solution provides a large scale building block that can be replicated to confidently scale out to tens of thousands of users. The current industry trend in data center design is towards shared infrastructures. By using virtualization along with pre validated IT platforms, enterprise customers have embarked on the journey to the cloud by moving away from application silos and toward shared infrastructure that can be quickly deployed, thereby increasing agility and reducing costs. Cisco and Pure Storage have partnered to deliver this Cisco Validated Design, which uses best of breed storage, server and network components to serve as the foundation for desktop virtualization workloads, enabling efficient architectural designs that can be quickly and confidently deployed. The audience for this document includes, but is not limited to sales engineers, field consultants, professional services, IT managers, partner engineers, and customers who want to take advantage of an infrastructure built to deliver IT efficiency and enable IT innovation. This document provides a step by step design, configuration and implementation guide for the Cisco Validated Design for a large scale  Citrix Xen. Desktop 7. 9 mixed workload solution with Pure Storage Flash. Arraym. 50, Cisco UCS Blade Servers, Cisco Nexus 9. Cisco MDS 9. 00. 0 series fibre channel switches. This is the second desktop virtualization Cisco Validated Design with Pure Storage. It incorporates the following features          Validation of Cisco Nexus 9. Pure Storage all flash storage array         Validation of Cisco MDS 9. Pure Storage all flash storage array         Support for the Cisco UCS 3. Cisco UCS B2. 00 M4 servers         Support for the latest release of Pure Storage Flash. Arraym hardware and Purity Operating Environment 4. A Fibre Channel storage design supporting SAN LUNs         Cisco Nexus 1. Cisco UCS Inband KVM Access         Cisco UCS v. Media client for v. Sphere Installation         Cisco UCS Firmware Auto Sync Server policy         VMware v. Sphere 6. 0 Hypervisor         Citrix Xen. Desktop 7. 9 persistent and non persistent Windows 1. Citrix Xen. App 7. RDS shared server sessions. The data center market segment is shifting toward heavily virtualized private, hybrid and public cloud computing models running on industry standard systems. These environments require uniform design points that can be repeated for ease of management and scalability. The factors have led to the need for predesigned computing, networking and storage building blocks optimized to lower the initial design cost, simplify management, and enable horizontal scalability and high levels of utilization. The use cases include          Enterprise Data Center          Service Provider Data Center This Cisco Validated Design prescribes a defined set of hardware and software that serves as an integrated foundation for both Citrix Xen. Desktop Microsoft Windows 1. Citrix Xen. App RDS server desktop sessions based on Microsoft Server 2. R2. The mixed workload solution includes Pure Storage  Flash. Arraym storage array, Cisco Nexus and MDS networking, the Cisco Unified Computing System Cisco UCS, Citrix Xen. Desktop and VMware v. Sphere software in a single package. The design is space optimized such that the network, compute, and storage required can be housed in one data center rack. Switch port density enables the networking components to accommodate multiple compute and storage configurations of this kind. The infrastructure is deployed to provide Fibre Channel booted hosts with block level access to shared storage. The reference architecture reinforces the wire once strategy, because as additional storage is added to the architecture, no re cabling is required from the hosts to the Cisco UCS fabric interconnect. The combination of technologies from Cisco Systems, Inc., Citrix Systems, Inc., Pure Storage and VMware Inc. Key components of the solution include the following          More power, same size. Cisco UCS B2. 00 M4 half width blade with dual 1. GHz Intel Xeon E5 2. GB of memory for Citrix Xen. App and Xen. Desktop hosts supports more virtual desktop workloads than the previously released generation processors on the same hardware. The Intel Xeon E5 2. Fault tolerance with high availability built into the design. The various designs are based on using one Unified Computing System chassis with multiple Cisco UCS B2. M4 blades for virtualized desktop and infrastructure workloads. The design provides N1 server fault tolerance for hosted virtual desktops, hosted shared desktops and infrastructure services. Stress tested to the limits during aggressive boot scenario. The 5. 00. 0 user mixed hosted virtual desktop and hosted shared desktop environment booted and registered with the Xen. Desktop 7. 9 Delivery Controllers in under 1. Stress tested to the limits during simulated login storms. All 5. 00. 0 simulated users logged in and started running workloads up to steady state in 4. Ultra condensed computing for the datacenter. The rack space required to support the system is less than a single 4. U rack, conserving valuable data center floor space. All Virtualized This CVD presents a validated design that is 1. VMware ESXi 6. 0.