Er XenApp død og begravet? Allan Bak, edgemo A/S

Agenda Architecture Install, Manage, Support New features Migration/upgrade Demo

Current Architectures Receiver Policy Console Delivery Services / WebInterface Setup Wizard Delivery Services Console Web Interface Console PCM Console PVS Console License Management Console Desktop Studio GoToAssist EdgeSight IMA XenApp Broker Power&Cap acity Mgmt App Mgmt Console XenDesktop Broker DB AD Configuration IMA Wizard WMI Desktop Update Manager CBP DB XenApp Workers (RDS) PVS Provisioning Services XenDesktop Workers (VDI) XenApp Farm Desktop Delivery Controller Console Provisioning Server XenDesktop Site

XenApp Farm XenDesktop Site FlexCast Management Architecture Receiver Storefront Delivery Services Console Provisioning Services PCM Console PVS Console Studio IMA XenApp Broker Power &Capacity Mgmt XenDesktop Broker IMA DB WMI CBP DB XenApp Workers (RDS) PVS Provisioning Services XenDesktop Workers (VDI)

FMA Brings Delivery & Management Flexibility XenApp IMA XenDesktop FMA

FlexCast Delivery Technology Simplified approaches to deployment flexibility

High Level Changes in the XenDesktop Architecture & Services (Part One) New Services in FMA Delegated Admin Service providing Roles and Scopes Configuration Logging Monitor Service Environment Tests StoreFront Integration Machine Creation Services has been reduced to two services Secondary Databases for Config Logging and Monitor Service Remote PC now fully integrated into Catalogs and Groups HDX 3D fully integrated into Catalogs and Groups

High Level Changes in the XenDesktop Architecture & Services (Part Two) New Approach To Applications Applications are associated to Delivery Groups Application Attributes such as Colour Depth, Audio are defined with Delivery Group Delivery Groups can offer Apps only, Desktops only or both Apps and Desktops Automatic Application Discovery (Server VDAs) Load Balancing is controlled via Group Policy Full support for HDX Local App Access (reverse seamless) App-V integration and discovery

Why Simplify? Windows as a Service Enabling Desktop & Apps as a Service requires: On-demand self-service Cloud-scale orchestration Global, multi-site management Multi-tenant isolation Rapid elasticity Measured services

The Transition to XenDesktop 7

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2 purpose built consoles Studio Director Automated workload provisioning Automatic app publishing Custom delegated administration Real-time assessment Site health and performance End user experience monitoring

Machine Creation Services Overview 1 2 3 4 5 hypervisor Admin selects Golden Master Image, copied as Full Clone and becomes Golden Master VM Image (QD Base Disk) Admin Provisions 5 VM s MCS creates a Difference Disk and an ID disk and attaches them to each VM Base ID DIFF ID DIFF ID DIFF ID DIFF ID DIFF storage MCS Powers up the VM and uses the Base VM as the Base Image for the VM OS Reads come from the Base OS Writes go to the Difference Disk

How Machine Creation Services works VM VM VM Storage Id Disk Diff Disk Id Disk Diff Disk Id Disk Diff Disk Persistent Identity uses little space Space reclaimed every boot Master Disk One copy of the base image shared by all VMs

How Provisioning Services Works Silo One vdisk Storage A Provisioning Servers B Silo Two C Silo Three

Qualities / criteria's for a Successful Migration Don t touch my production Make it transparent to my users Enable me to migrate in stages Allow me to rollback quickly if issues arise Give me feedback on what has been migrated

Migration / Upgrade No direct in-place upgrade to XenDesktop 7 from XenDesktop 4.x Database and architecture changes Operating system requirements are different Environments need to be setup from scratch which can result in a considerable amount of time (especially for larger enterprise environments)

Migration Tool Highlights Provides the ability to export settings from a legacy XenDesktop 4.x farm and import them into a XenDesktop 7 site Consists of two components Export Tool Executable used to write the legacy farm settings to an XML file Import Tool PowerShell script used to import the settings from the XML file Included on XenDesktop 7 DVD image

HyperVisor Requirements XenServer 6.0.2, 6.1, 6.2 Hyper-V/SCVMM System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 Rollup 1 VMWare vsphere 5.0 update 2, vsphere 5.1 Controller OS Controller DB Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2, SQL Server 2012 SP1 HA - Mirroring, Clustering, AlwaysOn Groups (SQL 2012) http://support.citrix.com/article/ctx131239

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Operating systems Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Standard, Essential and DataCenter editions 32 or 64-bit; all editions Standard, Enterprise and DataCenter editions Standard, Enterprise and DataCenter editions

Supported database platforms MS SQL 2008 MS SQL 2008 R2 MS SQL 2012 Express, Workgroup, Standard, and Enterprise editions Express, Workgroup, Standard, and Enterprise editions Express, Workgroup, Standard, and Enterprise editions 32 or 64-bit editions databases can be used for PVS 7 database SQL native client required on the server if using database mirroring feature Database clustering supported http://support.citrix.com/article/ctx114501

Target devices Win Server 2012 R2 Windows 8.1 Win Server 2008 R2 SP1 Windows 7 SP1 Windows XP Prof SP3 Windows XP Prof SP2 Standard, Essential, and Datacenter editions 32 or 64-bit Standard, DataCenter, Enterprise editions 32 or 64-bit: Enterprise, Professional, Ultimate 32-bit 64-bit Ultimate edition of Win 7 is only supported in Private Image mode

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Key Takeaways IMA is Dead FMA takes over WebInterface is Dead Storefront is the way to go Support for Windows 8 (8.1) / Windows 2012 (R2) Enables scalability & cloud HDX improvements Seamless Local Apps

High-Level Logging summary, plus detailed resulting tasks Integrated with Director/Historic trending for root cause analysis Powerfull search feature Reports available in HTML or CSV formats

Application & Desktop: Delivery made simple & scalable Deliver apps and desktops from servers and desktop OS es Machine Creation Services for server and desktop OS workloads Publish 10 s of apps at once Integrated App-V 5 support

Citrix Director: Real-time assessment

EdgeSight TM user experience analytics Maintain service level agreements Now built into the Director console! Performance management Provides historical trending and analysis Performance trending Capacity planning Network analysis Integrates network data by user session Quickly triage performance bottlenecks Powered by NetScaler Insight* *Requires NetScaler

PVS switches from legacy Hyper-V to synthetic

Boot Device Manager (BDM) instead of PXE

SMB 3.0 support Write-back cache or vdisk storage

Automatic creation of write-cache disks

Multiple NIC Support