Citrix Mobility Conference 2015 - Migrating XenApp & XenDesktop
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The document outlines best practices and tips for migrating to Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6, emphasizing user understanding, technology alignment, and performance optimization. It includes insights from the University of Adelaide's experience, covering infrastructure, user management, and the importance of thorough preparation before going live. Additionally, it introduces Project Serenity, a cloud service designed to simplify version upgrades and enhance access to new features.
Citrix Mobility Conference 2015 - Migrating XenApp & XenDesktop
- 1. v2 March © 2015 Citrix | Confidential #CMC15 Successfully Migrating Your Farm to XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 Jonathan Wade Manager Sales Engineering Rob Piano Manager Professional Services Paul Moir University of Adelaide
- 2. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Agenda • Citrix Best Practice • Notes & tips from the field – University of Adelaide • Introduction to Project Serenity
- 3. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6
- 4. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Citrix Best Practice
- 5. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Citrix Best Practice
- 6. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Who are the users and what are our requirements How do users gain access to our resources What resources will we deliver How will we manage and maintain the solution What do I need to make this happen The 5-layer model – Assess and Design User Layer Access Layer Resource Layer Control Layer Hardware Layer
- 7. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Citrix Best Practice - Deploy Hardware Layer Control Layer Access LayerUser Layer Resource Layer NetScaler Gateway StoreFront Delivery Controller XenClient Remote PC Access Pooled Desktop Catalog Hosted Apps Catalog Personal Desktop Catalog Shared Desktop Catalog Director Studio SQL Database SSL Delivery Group Delivery Group Delivery Group Delivery Group Resource Hosts Physical, Virtual, Cloud Cloud VMs VMsServers PCs Access & Control Hosts Physical, Virtual VMsServersActive Directory License Server
- 8. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Citrix Professional Services Best Practice
- 9. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Notes and tips from the field
- 10. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Systems engineer The University of Adelaide 20,000 Students 4000 Staff
- 11. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Current environment – XenApp 7.6 – Storefront – HyperV – Netscaler – PVS – 2012 used for all infrastructure, including user hosts – 50 virtual hosts, servicing 500,000 sessions annually – Classic shell, solve the GUI barrier on 2012 – Solid state storage array for hosts – No roaming profiles, local profiles deleted on restart – Folder redirection to NAS storage
- 12. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential POD design, one per data center Solid state local storage for hosts – 250k IOPS, future proof – Xenapp with pvs uses less storage per user, 30gb per host – Downside of NAS storage, why we moved to locally attached storage
- 13. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Tips we are about to cover 1. Know your users and know how they work, align the technology 2. Build on latest technology 3. The benefits of a volatile profile environment 4. Set a goal for time to desktop 5. Do not go live until you are ready
- 14. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Tip 1: Know your users and how they work, align the technology – Engineers to meet with end users – Concurrent sessions – Shared resources – RDS vs VDA, understand the cost of VDA – What applications are of highest value, or do they just need a desktop? – What would satisfy the majority of users, don’t try and solve every use case – Clearly define the scope of what you are trying to deliver, before you start
- 15. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Tip 2: Build on latest technology – Take advantage of multi touch technology, pinch and swipe gestures – Text box recognition in 2012 and XenApp 7.6 – Ensures longevity – Negate the need to pay for extended maintenance – Built in application life spans: Internet Explorer
- 16. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Tip 3: The benefits of a volatile profile environment – Known user experience – Reduction in calls to service desk for odd application issues – Can be used as a fall back when thick clients have issues – Business application stability – No profile rebuilds
- 17. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Tip 4: Set a goal for time to desktop – 40 seconds Launch to Desktop is achievable – 40 Second goal guide – What is the real cost of logon times? – Average salary satistics site http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/6302.0 Site with 2000 logons per day User login count annual (2000 logons per day x 254 working days) 508000 Weekly Australian average salary $1,476.30 Hours working week 40 Per hour rate 36.907500 Per minute rate 0.615125 Total per minute cost of logon annually $312,483.50
- 18. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential • 40 Second goal guide (Antivirus) – SCEP is fairly light weight – 8 second average time to desktop saving by changing AV
- 19. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential • 40 Second goal guide (Policy) – Group policy logs – Enable verbose logging, displays policy processing components on screen during logon
- 20. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential • 40 Second goal guide (Scheduled Tasks) – Scheduled Task, auto created task deletion. Use a task to clean up other tasks – Office 2013 – Google update – User_feed
- 21. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential • 40 Second goal guide (Printers) • Best: – Deploy printers via Citrix policies • Good: – Can’t use Citrix policies? Use scripts – Logon scripts are processed post desktop build • Slowest – Group Policy preferential printers – Time cost of ~ 2 minutes per printer. Verify with group policy logs – Desktop will not be visible until the printer policy has finished processing
- 22. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential • 40 Second goal guide (Registry Run items) – Clean up Run in registry, two locations in x64 (backup then cleanup) – HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun – HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun
- 23. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential • 40 Second goal guide (Registry Active Setup) – Active Setup registry keys cleanup (backup then cleanup) – HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftActive SetupInstalled Components – HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftActive SetupInstalled Components
- 24. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential • 40 Second goal guide (Windows Updates) – Apply recommended updates – Apply Rollups
- 25. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential • 40 Second goal guide (Startup folder) – Clean up the start menu “StartUp” folder
- 26. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential • Folder Redirection – Untick Grant – Untick Move – Make sure Leave is ticked
- 27. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Tip 5: Do not go live until you are ready – Less disruptive for users – Less calls to service desk – Better user experience – Load and failover testing can be performed – Post go live, you only need to worry about promoting your new service – Something to be proud of
- 28. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential University IT Service Quality Benchmark Report 2014 The University of Adelaide Technology Services
- 29. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Thank you for the support • Jonathan Wade • Nick Priest • James Priest • Robert Piano
- 30. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Project Serenity
- 31. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Serenity What is it? Cross-product collaboration effort to develop an innovative cloud service that simplifies version upgrades and accelerates access to the latest features made available in the Citrix workspaces journey. Prepare UpgradeAnalyze XenApp XenDesktop Existing Version XenApp XenDesktop New Version Serenity Cloud Service
- 32. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Serenity Architecture XenApp (IMA) Administrator Serenity Web Service Serenity Web UI Discovery Agent (XenApp 7.6 Migration Utility) Serenity Data Store Output IMPORT PowerShell Scripts XenApp (IMA) XenApp (FMA) XenApp (FMA)
- 33. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Getting Started www.citrix.com/XenApp/Upgrade •Automated Migration Tool (Serenity) •Free Training Courses •Assistance Programs •Deployment Guides •How To Videos
- 34. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Wrap Up and Key Takeaways •Define the success criteria and deliver •Refine your user experience •Sell your solution •Ask the experts
- 35. © 2015 Citrix | Confidential Work better. Live better.Work better. Live better.