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*ASB* *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… * On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Webster <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<[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.**** > > ** ** > > Is this correct?**** > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
