Citrix XenDesktop implementation with Adobe inDesign CS5 (PART I)
When I heard “Adobe CS5″ with XenDesktop, the first thing that came to my mind is – ‘what? seriously?’ I mean, is it even possible? In terms of usability, stability and performance, virtualizing inDesign is going to be a really tough job. I really don’t think it’s a good idea to put this monster in a virtualized environment. But since we have a client who kind of wants to implement it this way, then I guess we will have to test it out.
Before we start to put our head into this ‘mission impossible’ task, we really should be very careful on how to plan this test in order to produce the best result. First, we went over to Adobe’s official site to check out its system requirements.
CPU: Intel P4 or AMD Athlon 64 processor
OS: Windows XP/Vista/7
RAM: 1GB (2GB recommended)
HDD: 1.6GB of available HDD space for installation.
Display: 1024×768 with 16-bit vido card
From the given specifications above, it looks like the graphic card isn’t really playing a big part, which is a good start. There are also more details that we will have to pay attention to:
Adobe InDesign graphics’ display performance
InDesign CS5 performance issue and solution
Hypervisor: XenServer 5.6 FP1
XD5 Controller: Windows 2008 R2 Standard
Guest OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x86
vCPU: 4
RAM: 4 GB
to be continued.
Have you had any luck with this? I’m tasked with exactly the same thing. I have to create a 64bit Xen and virtualize InDesign CS4.
Thom
June 29, 2011 at 2:57 pm
Yes, we virtualized adobe CS 5.5 with xendesktop. I will write another post as an update this weekend. I’ve been too busy recently.
Nicolas Lin
June 29, 2011 at 11:03 pm
Very interested in part 2!
SB
August 12, 2011 at 6:36 pm