10,000 foot view:
Published Applications: Installed on XenApp server and run from XenApp Streamed Application Option 1: Application is streamed to server and run from server (i.e. NEVER installed on the server) Streamed Application Option 2: Application is streamed to client and run from client (i.e. NEVER installed on the server OR the client) Option 1 is what is now preferred for very fast rollouts of additional XenApp servers. Meaning: 1. Create VM with Server OS 2. Install XenApp prereqs 3. Apply Windows updates 4. Install XenApp 5. Apply XenApp updates 6. Run XenAppPrep or your favorite cloning techniques 7. You now have a golden image 8. Set all published apps to be streamed to server 9. Bring new server image online and it is immediately ready for use (no apps to install) Option 2 is for users who need offline access to streamed apps. Webster From: Jeremy Anderson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Citrix question, could use some guidance Hey Webster, or anyone else. I am still having some trouble grasping the point of "streaming Applications" vs "published applications". Do you have an article that shows the pros and cons of each, or can you explain in semi-plain English? Thanks.. From: Webster [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 10:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Citrix question, could use some guidance But when they upgraded the GUI they removed three key feature. That ticked off some people but such is the price of progress. Webster From: Sean Martin [mailto:[email protected]] Subject: Re: Citrix question, could use some guidance I've heard they made great strides with the GUI to make it a lot more user friendly. We've got two of them now just waiting for the next upgrade. - Sean On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Webster <[email protected]> wrote: NO!, that was intended as a high compliment. IIRC, the cheapest NetScaler is $25,000. To implement GLBS would require, at a minimum, $50,000 in hardware costs. I would want a serious packet-head, like you, to handle a setup like that. To implement full local HA and GLBS would then require a minimum investment of $100,000 just to cover two sites. I will let the packet-heads handle that stuff. I will stick to XenServer, XenApp, XenDesktop and Provisioning Server. Those four items keep my plate overflowing. Webster From: Rohyans, Aaron [mailto:[email protected]] Subject: RE: Citrix question, could use some guidance ".You really need to be a serious packet-head like Aaron Rohyans in order to best use and support those beasts." Should I take offense to this? J Aaron T. Rohyans Senior Network Engineer CCIE #21945, CCSP, CCNA, CQS-Firewall, CQS-IPS, CQS-VPN, ISSP, CISP, JNCIA-ER ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
