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Meet Citrix Geek of the Week – Stephane Thirion
Greetings Community Comrades!The “Geek of the Week” blog series highlights one of our exceptional community members each week, so you can get to know more about them, and what they do in and for the community! Our Geek of the Week is:Stephane Thirion CTO/Owner - IT Architect Activlan Paris, France What was your very first IT project and what was your role?My first real project was back in 2001 in a ...
Project Avalon: Automating Windows app and desktop delivery
By now you've heard the exciting news about Project Avalon - the next generation platform for delivering apps, data and desktops as cloud services. In this announcement, Citrix has detailed how we will integrate technologies like CloudStack, XenDesktop and CloudPortal to create an unprecedented system for the delivery of apps and desktops as services for both public cloud providers and Enterprises who want to run ...
App Orchestration: Provisioning Machines Part 1
To help ease the trouble of bringing up Citrix XenApp Controllers, Citrix XenApp Workers, and Citrix Web Interface, App Orchestration provides easy to use PowerShell scripts to automate the process. These PowerShell scripts are referred to as App Delivery Setup Tools. I will give you a quick overview on these scripts and point you to more information when available. This will help you get through ...
Managing application access within published Desktop with Citrix CloudPortal Service Manager and Citrix App Studio
My first post will describe a solution that can help service providers to use Citrix CloudPortal Service Manager (CPSM) together with Citrix App Studio to manage the visibility and usage of installed applications within published Desktop.For those of you who have been working with Citrix App Studio and integration with CloudPortal Service Manager before probably know that the current integration of these great products has a limitation that they can "only" enable automation ...
App Orchestration: Architecture
With the recent release of the Cloud Provider Pack, our app orchestration technology (a.k.a. Project Rainmaker) is now available for immediate download and use. You can find more information about the many benefits you get from this technology in several recent blogs. Suffice to say – we have reinvented the way to manage complex multi-tenant, multi-farm deployments of XenApp with a minimum of ...
App Orchestration: Concepts
About three weeks back, we released the App Orchestration technology as part of the Cloud Provider Pack. App orchestration enables Citrix Service Providers to manage multi-tenant, multi-farm deployments of apps and desktops as a service efficiently. To get you jump-started with app orchestration, I am starting a 10-part blog series to which key engineers of the app orchestration team will be contributing over the next few ...
Project Rainmaker is now available in the Cloud Provider Pack!
Last week, we announced the availability of the Cloud Provider Pack. One of key technologies in this pack is the app orchestration technology (developed under the code-name of Project Rainmaker).So what does app orchestration provide?Simplified Farm Management: Just create your pools of XenApp Session Hosts and pools of XenApp Controllers - the tasks of joining these to manage capacities across multiple XenApp farms happens automatically.Multi-tenant Configuration: Support ...
Citrix App Studio Quick Deployment Guide
This article describes how to install Citrix App Studio using a very simple configuration. It includes an brief overview of Citrix App Studio’s basic deployment architecture followed by a guided walkthrough that shows how to set up the simplest possible configuration so you can get started using Citrix App Studio right away. Basic Deployment Architecture A Citrix App Studio basic deployment consists of an Active Directory domain, ...
Fast Moving Clouds
Greetings from Europa Park in Germany! Tomorrow, I’ll be taking the main stage to talk to the thousands of cloud providers at World Hosting Days. My presentation is called, “All clouds are not the same: what kind is yours?” In an industry where everyone is clamoring to offer a cloud service, the ones that will be successful and survive are the ones that can identify ...
No More Read-only LUNs in PVS, Sanbolic Melio Offers Consolidation, Scalability and Performance for PVS HA
While browsing the Citrix® Support Forums last week, I came across a posting that was written by a Citrix® customer who had recently upgraded his Provisioning Services™ (PVS™) farm from version 5.6 SP1 to version 6.0 and was disappointed to find out the Read-only LUN feature in PVS had been removed.In his posting, the individual explained that he had multiple PVS ...