What s new In Citrix XenApp 6.5? Highlights

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1 E2E Virtualization Conference 18 th November 2011 What s new In Citrix XenApp 6.5? Highlights Neil Spellings and Stephane Thirion

2 Neil Spellings Independent contractor Blog : [email protected] Twitter

3 Stephane Thirion CTO - IT Architect in Activlan base in France (Contractor / Consulting) Blog : [email protected] / [email protected] Twitter

4 Summary Instant App Access From Powerpoint to reality App Streaming (6.5 vhd) (overview) HDX (overview) Multi-Stream ICA Service Provider Automation Pack & Enhanced Desktop Experience Additional features (overview)

5 Instant App Access Session Pre-launch Linger Fast-re-connect

6 Session Pre-Launch Can provide better than local experience Just-in-Time Pre-Launch Scheduled Pre-Launch Easily managed through policy settings

7 Session Linger & Reconnect Dramatically reduces time to reconnect to a session Simple policy settings Linger disconnect timer Linger terminate timer Fast reconnect No policy settings required

8 From Powerpoint to reality Configuration Pre-Launch / Session lingering and fast reconnect settings are managed with policies (XenApp and Microsoft)

9 Démo

10 From Powerpoint to reality Scheduled Pre-launch Application name : Sophis (Realtime trading / contribution) Before XenApp sessions initiated between 8h00am and 8h15am Logon storm Profile loading is very long Filer (Profile store) is very busy Oracle database is overload 15 to 20 minutes to be able to work Market is opening at 09h00 With XenApp 6.5 Schedule Pre-launch app configuration Schedule between 05h30 and 08h30

11 From Powerpoint to reality Scheduled Pre-launch Application name : Sophis (Realtime trading and contribution) + - Latest Receiver 3.0 and up The load is spread on 3h00 timeframe instead of 15 minutes Easy to setup Latest Receiver 3.0 and up Receiver for Windows only feature. Customizing the pre-launch feature using the icaclient.adm file is not supported. Registry setting to set on the client device Session need to be open and lock HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Citrix\ICA Client\Prelaunch

12 From Powerpoint to reality Considerations and take away When a pre-launch session is created, it takes up a license immediately When enable for an app, the setting applies to all users and servers configured for the application

13 App Streaming What s new with 6.5 Overview

14 App Streaming 6.5 VHD Streaming RadeFastLaunch SHA2 signing (Still SHA1 for legacy Offline Plug-in support)

15 HDX New version Overview

16 New HDX / Flash for WAN v2 Faster HDX performance over the WAN Highly responsive up to 300ms network latency Compresses, caches and prioritizes traffic Available on Receiver for Windows and Linux (Fedora & Ubuntu) Flash for WAN v2 Internet Explorer 9 support

17 Multi-Stream ICA Granular Quality of Service for ICA

18 Classic ICA Citrix Receiver Router ICA 14 Virtual Streams HTTP XenApp 6.5

19 Multi-Stream ICA Citrix Receiver Router XenApp 6.5 ICA Real6me ICA Real6me ICA Interac6ve ICA Bulk ICA Background ICA Interac6ve ICA Bulk ICA Background HTTP

20 Démo

21 Enhanced Desktop Experience Win-7 look and feel for hosted shared desktops Service Provider Automation Pack

22 Before Applying Windows 7 Desktop Experience Familiar to IT admins not users Unfamiliar server tools Missing Media Player, Snipping tool, etc. Plain Start menu Plain Task Bar

23 After Applying Windows 7 Desktop Experience More familiar for users Support for themes Accessory apps (Windows Media Player, Snipping Tool, etc.) High-res, vibrant wallpaper Win7 Start Menu and Taskbar

24 Service Provider Automation Pack Windows 7 experience enabler GPO to lockdown the desktop Full XenApp farm automatic deployment Use a multi tenant farm with a broker lockdown script This is not only for Cloud Providers (CSP) If you want to work on XenApp farm automatic deployment (POC etc..) This is an executable file to download, install it and you ll find all the scripts in c:\program Files\...

25 XenApp DVD Service Provider Automation Pack Data Collector Backup DC Licensing Server WebInterface server (Configured to use an Access Gateway) XenApp worker server A lot more soon on stay tune!

26 Additional Features & Enhancements Power Capacity Management: Hyper-V and ESX support PCM Agent configuration via AD policy HDX Policy Templates EdgeSight 5.4 Migration Center (Next Session with Daniel Wedel) XenApp 6.5 Mobility Pack (ref Simon Frost session)

27 Thanks! Questions? it

28 @archynet Stéphane Thirion