[Citrix] Perforce Standardisation at Citrix
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The document discusses the standardization of Perforce at Citrix, highlighting issues with user and admin experiences due to multiple instances and disparate systems. It outlines the future vision which includes a centralized management system for improved performance, security, and uptime. The presentation aims to enhance both user and administrator experiences with recommendations for a streamlined process and better tools.
[Citrix] Perforce Standardisation at Citrix
- 1. 1 Perforce Standardisation at Citrix Coping with change in a growing global organisation Lee Leggett Software Engineer Jason Leonard Staff Software Engineer
- 2. 2 Citrix § Market leading cloud, collaboration & virtualisation technologies
- 3. 3 Where are we? 30 Perforce Instances 5 Different Physical Servers
- 5. 5 Admin Problems • 24/7 Support • Disparate Systems • Security • No central control • Minimise Bme investment • Part Bme administrators • Disaster Recovery • High Availability
- 6. 6 AdministraBon Access Delivery
- 7. 7 AdministraBon Access Delivery AdministraBon Access Delivery
- 9. 9 Mesh Network PerforceA: 1666 PerforceB: 2666 1666 PerforceA: 2666 PerforceB: 1666
- 10. 10 Mesh Network
- 11. 11 Mesh Network • Benefits • Easy to remember • Hidden Complexity • Increased Performance
- 12. 12 AdministraBon Access Delivery Access Delivery AdministraBon
- 13. 13 Syncing Code
- 14. 14 Syncing Tool >sync xendesktop_main
- 15. 15 Syncing Tool • Benefits • Hidden complexity • Quick build environment • Configurable by developers • Increased build stability
- 16. 16 AdministraBon AdministraBon Delivery Access Delivery Access
- 17. 17 Perforce Standard Environment 2011.2 2010.2 2012.2
- 18. 18 Demo Please watch our recorded demo of the Perforce Standard Environment
- 19. 19 Admin Problems • Disparate Systems • No central control • Part Bme administrators PSE Benefits • 24/7 Support • Increased Security • Minimise Time Investment • High Availability • Disaster Recovery
- 20. 20 AdministraBon Delivery Access
- 21. 21 The Future for our users • One place for everything • Reduce one master instance • 24x7 uptime • Use of offline checkpoints • Warm or Hot standby servers • Faster Experience • Ensuring hardware is current • Use of Smart proxies
- 22. 22 The Future for our administrators • Simplified user management • Replicated Authorisation • Better usage/error statistics • Log parsing on instances
- 23. 23 Citrix Vision of Perforce
- 24. 24 Questions? Please read the whitepaper Lee Leggett: lee.leggett@citrix.com @leeleggett86 Jason Leonard: jason.leonard@citrix.com