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migrations are a fact of life for any IT system administrator. For Citrix administrators, it is certainly no different.
Perhaps you replace hardware. You may update your infrastructure. Or maybe you go with some M & A activity with 5000 users that need to be moved from Friday, or you're all fired!
Whatever the cause, eventually you will be required to migrate VDI population between the infrastructures. become the larger the population, the more complex the process. Without proper planning and an understanding of the potential hazards for yourself deep in a hole ... many months down the road on a migration project and there is no end in sight see easily.
Sometimes a migration can be as simple as removing VDI from a XenDesktop farm and add it to another. More often than not though, it is not as simple as that. There are many different components that bind your XenDesktop environment. How are all of these are going to be affected by the migration? Do they require changes to be able to support the VDI from its new location? More importantly, they can use the new XenDesktop Farm also interact?
If you are planning to VDA as part of your migration to upgrade, you must ensure that you sufficient for the upgrade process to plan and where possible perform the upgrade before the new Farm migrate. If you change XenDesktop versions, you should closely examine the policy settings in the new farm for new guidelines that you need to implement. It could also be the case that a policy which you have on your old farm and is no longer available in the new farm. Remember, XenDesktop policies are not exportable between the sides because they contain location-specific information.
The VDA and XenDesktop policy to take into account some of the considerations that you need to take in. It is also very important that the underlying hypervisor tools your storefront environment and infrastructure such as Citrix Director Address should be addressed. Ensuring the proper preparation by reviewing and these components addressing where will ensure necessary that you are ready for the main event: Migration
When it comes to the process of migration itself, should if you work with VDI 20 or 20,000 of the same 5-stage process for each VDI apply. Check, Prepare, removing, adding and verifying.
Following the requirements for each of these steps will greatly increase migration success rate. We know this can be very time consuming, and this is where automation comes in to play. advantage of the XenDesktop SDK and some programming knowledge by which we can make the end of this whole process run with the simple click of a button to finish. This automation can migrate us in a large batch of several hundred VDI go.
Join me and Paul at Citrix Synergy in Las Vegas for the session SYN326 , where we share our experiences, these large-scale migration is carried out along with tips, processes, procedures and even automation code to avoid things absolutely, and free tools is your migration regardless successfully the size of what is sure.
Shane O'Neill is a senior engineer with Aetna, where he is responsible for a large Citrix environment from more than 35,000 VDI and 700 servers XenApp is. He has experience automation solutions for virtual environments in development using PowerShell and C #. He is a previous Synergy speakers, keeps CCE-V certification and is a regular contributor on http://citrixtips.com blog. Follow him on Twitter at @sasponto .
Paul Stansel is a 18-year veteran of virtualization technologies, which is installed on any version of Citrix server virtualization since WinFrame. It has been developed, implemented and supported Citrix environments for several companies 100 of assets. Paul is currently Principal Consultant for Presidio in the tri-state region. He was speaker at Citrix Synergy and PremierCIO and in his spare time is a contribution http://citrixtips.com. Paul was called as a CTP in 2015 Follow him on Twitter at @pstansel .
Citrix The authors of this paper loaded at Citrix Synergy to present 2016 and in a participation associated competition. The author has received an entry in the competition for the submission of this blog post.
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