Citrix Systems 4.1 manual

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    Worldwide Consulting Solu tions XenServer for XenApp - Better Together Overview For the la st few years, IT professionals h ave questioned whether it m akes sense to virtualize XenA pp environm ents. The answer has alwa ys been “ it depends. ” In short, that answer has not chan ged. Most organizat ions realize that having an environment that is[...]

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    2 Greater Av ailability Organizations are look ing for ways to provide great er availabil ity and responsivenes s to applications. This m eans being able to overcom e faults, failures an d surges in application us age without significant ly increasing the har dware footprint of the XenAp p infrastructure , raising the qu estions:  How to provide[...]

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    3 Figure 1: Ph ysical XenApp Architecture Improving availab ility and flexibilit y often results in low er utilization rates because m ore physical servers are r equired. F or example, look at the following aspec ts of this architect ure:  W eb Interface: The Web Interfac e servers are responsi ble for delivering appl ications to the users b y a[...]

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    4 W hen creating a load managed group, each group m ust provide enough redundan cy to be capable of supporti ng all users in the event of a server failure. T his results in an N+1 scenario where the re is at least one additional XenApp server per load managed gro up. In m any situations , organizations im plem ent an N+10% strat egy where an additi[...]

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    5 In addition, org anizations are also interes ted in becom ing more flexible by m oving with changing custom er needs. To achieve this, the IT organization m ust also be able to c hange or expand th e infrastructur e easily. In a trul y physical environment, this is dif ficult as servers require installation and configurat ion. There are deplo y m[...]

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    6 Figure 2: Xen Server Enterprise Architecture All components, excep t the Line - of -Busines s load managed grou p, will be virtuali zed inside of a XenSer ver Resource Po ol. This arc hitecture help s us to improve upon the 1:1 s erver to role ratio in the ph ysical world, deliver ing a 1:Man y ratio in the virtual wor ld. Many different s ystems[...]

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    7  Dev/Test: Utilizing X enServer Enterprise in the Dev/T est environm ent allows for e asier synchronizati on with production at a great cost savings. A production-lev el virtual server c ould be copied into the D ev/Test environment, allo wing for identical environm ents with little adm inistrative overhead , albeit m inor changes would be req[...]

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    8 image per serv er role. The architectur al advantages in troduced by leveraging the Provisioning Server c omponent of XenServer Platinum can be seen in Figure 3. Figure 3: Xen Server Platinum Architecture W ith the defined XenApp architecture, ther e are f ive distinct roles: 1. W eb Interface 2. Data Collector 3. Core Business Apps 4. Business U[...]

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    9 modified. T hese modifications allow the ser ver to becom e part of the XenApp farm during server deliver y, as explained in the Xen App Integration step. Startup Phase: T he server is no longer using its localized op erating s y stem present on its local storage. Ins tead, the server mus t receive its role across the network. T his process takes[...]

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    10 Results Based on the three arc hitectures identif ied within this docum ent, it should be c lear that a “ one si ze fits all solution ” is not the best approach. T he best appro ach should be able to integrat e the best utili zation, availability and flexibilit y for physical servers as well as virtual servers . Recapping the three architect[...]

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    11 Conclusion Although ser ver virtualization is in high dem and, it should be used t o address busi ness requirem ents . Som e IT organizations are c onsidering implem enting a server vir tualization solution for m any aspects of their inf rastructure believing it wil l solve all of their e nvironmental challenges. Howev er, server virtual ization[...]

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    12 Notice The information in this publication is subject to change w ithout notice. THIS PUBLICATION IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT W ARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY W ARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON- INFRINGEMENT. CITRIX SYSTEMS, INC. (“CITRIX”), SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR TECHNICAL [...]