The Citrix Evaluation Virtual Appliance (EVA) is a new pre-configured, ready-to-go, virtual machine system for evaluating Citrix Presentation Server Platinum Edition. Based on a Microsoft .VHD Test Drive base image of Windows 2003 Server R2, the Citrix EVA will enable evaluators to interact with the Citrix management interface, and evaluate our application delivery infrastructure from both the administrative and end-user perspectives within as little as 10 minutes after completing the download.

Evaluation Virtual Appliance Contents

The EVA includes all of the components needed to evaluate Presentation Server Platinum Edition. These components include:

• Application Virtualization
• Application Streaming
• Application Performance Monitoring
• SmartAccess (Access Gateway appliance not included)
• Single Sign-On

The Microsoft .VHD Test Drive base image evaluation period will end 30 days from the initial startup of the operating system.  

You can download it, here.