As far as profile management goes, UPM is better than standard roaming profiles. But if you want true user-level virtualization I can recommend a couple of possibilities ;-)
---Blackberried -----Original Message----- From: Webster <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:05:13 To: NT System Admin Issues<[email protected]> Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>Subject: RE: moving to virtual "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?" I believe that is part of TS/RDS allow users to have just one session. Resource Manager is no longer included with 6.5 even though the eDocs site says it is. Service Monitoring and System Monitoring and Reporting is EdgeSight which is the replacement for Resource Manager. I disable Virtual Memory Optimization every chance I get. I think it was useful back when servers had 2GB RAM. Power & Capacity Management - how can I say this without violating NDA, hmmm, I wouldn't bother with this feature. Health Assistant is Health Monitoring and Recovery. Some people find it useful, most people don't know it exists and by default one of the tests, if it fails, will remove your server from load balancing and confuse the heck out of you when trying to determine why no users are going to that server. Server Preference and Failover is the replacement for the old "Zone Preference and Failover" Citrix policy. CPU Utilization Management is a cool feature if you need it. It allows you to give a set of users (i.e. doctors, law partners) priority access to application(s) and the server resources required to run the application(s). Profile Data Capture and User Profile Streaming are Citrix User Profile Management. Citrix recommends mandatory profiles, then roaming profiles, then UPM and then move on to 3rd party solutions. Your last item requires a Branch Repeater device in front of your XenApp servers (I have no idea of the cost). I know people who use this and it allows them to work nearly flawless from 39,000 feet on a plane's Wi-Fi connection. Hope all this helps. 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 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. 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