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From: Rankin, James R [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 1:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: moving to virtual No resource manager in XA 6 or 6.5 - its all EdgeSight now ---Blackberried ________________________________ From: "David Mazzaccaro" <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:51:05 -0400 To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]> ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Subject: RE: moving to virtual Thanks Webster! I just went through this matrix. It appears to me that everything I would need is included w/ Advanced. >From the user's perspective, one thing that they have now is if they log into WI, launch an app, then log into WI from another computer, their app follows them. Is this included w/ Advanced? For me, I use "Resource Manager" pretty frequently to check counters, get alerts, and run server snapshots to see historical performance. Is this included w/ Advanced? Also - there are a couple of things that I wouldn't get w/ Adv that I could use more clarification on... for my size environment are any of the following things necessary? "Service Monitoring" - Enable IT to quickly pinpoint and troubleshoot server, network, and application performance issues that impact the user experience. "System monitoring and reporting" - Administrator can efficiently manage and monitor system resources and generate reports on application and server availability, configuration, performance, capacity, and maintenance. "Virtual memory optimization" - Improves overall performance by rebasing DLLs to better optimize the use of virtual memory. The optimizations attempt to eliminate DLL memory mapping conflicts from process to process (app to app or session to session) which reduces the amount of page swapping. "Power and capacity management" - Create system policies that manage server power consumption and make the most optimal use of server capacity during both peak and off-peak hours. Automatically brings capacity online to maintain expected user performance and access and retires capacity when it is no longer needed. "Health assistant" - Performs continuous server health checks and automatically initiates recovery procedures, minimizing the need for administrator intervention. "Server preference and fail-over" - Establishes user sessions based on their proximity to and availability of a particular server or group of servers. This feature enables higher user and farm performance in implementations that span multiple data centers and eases disaster recovery and business continuity by automatically directing users to backup servers if primary servers are unavailable. "CPU utilization management" - Prevents individual users and processes from taking too much CPU at any given time, ensuring a consistent performance level for all users on the server. "Profile data capture" - Auto-detects and stores modified profile settings in the registry and file system and captures any modifications within the profile, preventing unintentional overwriting of user profiles using built-in logic to determine what data should be kept. "User profile streaming" - Loads user profile settings on-demand rather than during logon. Administrators can specify rules for downloading and caching large profile components in the background. This reduces logon time and accelerates application access. "HDX Broadcast Branch optimization" - Powered by Citrix Branch Repeater(r), these features automatically adapt and tune WAN communications. Auto-optimizer adaptively tunes for optimal performance based on real-time network and traffic conditions. Adaptive TCP flow control mitigates TCP penalties and maximizes bandwidth utilization for all communications across the WAN between branch offices and client devices. Multi-level compression reduces data size for all WAN communications by up to 3500-to-1 by applying the optimal combination of multiple compression techniques. From: Webster [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 10:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: moving to virtual It Depends [1]. What features are you using in the current license edition and what features can you use or do without in 6.5 Adv or Ent? http://www.citrix.com/site/resources/dynamic/additional/Citrix_XenApp_6. 5_Comparative_Feature_Matrix.pdf Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com <http://www.carlwebster.com/> 1. This should be trademarked by Citrix. J From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 9:09 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: moving to virtual Looking into it further, if all I want is to be on the current equivalent of what I have now - is XenApp Advanced good enough? Right now I have PS4.0 Enterprise: 3 PS4.0 servers hosting apps 1 web interface server 1 server that hosts my user profiles. From: Webster [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 9:51 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: moving to virtual IMNSHO, XenDesktop (and VDI in general) is oversold, over hyped, over promised, under delivered and vastly misunderstood. Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com <http://www.carlwebster.com/> From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 8:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: moving to virtual Thank you very much! I will ask about the trade up (it was not mentioned). I do not have SA on my current 4.0 licenses if that makes a difference? I am wondering if we will ever use XD... and realistically, if we aren't going to, I could save some money ($5400) by going w/ XenApp Enterprise. From: Webster [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 9:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: moving to virtual I have an article on using one Web Interface site with multiple XenApp farms. http://carlwebster.com/using-one-citrix-web-interface-site-with-multiple -xenapp-farms-3/ You can do this to migrate users to the new 6.5 farm while they are still using the 4.0 farm. It is totally transparent to your users. As I show in the article, you can even have test users who are using both farms for TAT and UAT. Did you get the 2 for 1 trade up on the XA/XD licenses? A XenDesktop license gives you the right to use XenApp. IMNSHO, Citrix does this to say we sold another 75 XenDesktop licenses today so we now have (Previous XD User Count) + 75 XenDesktop users even though very few actually use XD. Sorry, I don't know anything about pricing. The next version of XenApp will use the same infrastructure as XenDesktop. IOW, IMA is going away. IMA is the bottleneck in scalability of XenApp farms. That has been greatly improved with 6.5. Even for 75 users, I would recommend a dedicated Zone Data Collector/XML Broker, a dedicated Web Interface server and three Session-host only servers. Let me know if you need any additional info. Thanks Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com <http://www.carlwebster.com/> From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[email protected]] Subject: RE: moving to virtual Thx for the reply. Currently 75 Citrix users on 3 PS4.0 servers +1 web interface server. Typical published apps (Office, Adobe reader, IE, my docs) I guess not technically migrating... the plan would be to create a new farm, and move users from old farm to new. XenDesktop Enterprise - I was told that gives up XenApp for now and we will have the ability to move to xendesktop in the future. IIRC, it was $72 more per user than XenApp Enterprise. 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