Can my hardware run a virtual environment?

1. CPU must have vitual feature and enabled in bios

-Some older machines support virtualization but do not have hardware assisted virtualization (VT-d or VT-x) and will run slower than a physically installed machines. (Example 116 as of 9/25/2014) Ideally, we don't want to virtualize machines without full VT technology and should not buy machines without it.

More about VT:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/virtualization/virtualization-technology/intel-virtualization-technology.html

2. How to determine if a machine has VT (d/x) technology (Hardware assisted virtualization)

-Run cpu-z and find processor info on http://ark.intel.com/products/46472/Intel-Core-i3-530-Processor-4M-Cache-2_93-GHz (google search/Ark results)
-or Intel(R) Processor Identification Utility

*Utilities available on the apps drive

3. Check the hardware for compatibility with Citrix XENClient on their HCL (Hardware Compatibility list)

Go to the bottom, and hit "expand to view more", and at the bottom of the expanded list is "XenClient Enterprise hardware compatibility list"

*This simply means they directly tested the hardware but Citrix generally works on all

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