Author Archives: Murugan B Iyyappan

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About Murugan B Iyyappan

Working as a Senior Consultant - Citrix solutions architect with 20+ years of experience in the IT industry. Expertise in Citrix products and Cloud VDI platform.

Quick interesting facts about XenApp 7.5

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Murugan B Iyyappan

StoreFront 2.5 has been released and StoreFront 2.0 is the minimum supported version with XenApp and XenDesktop 7.5. Provisioning Services version is 7.0 is the minimum supported version. Requires at least Citrix License Server 11.11 and the old service is … Continue reading →

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Explain Provisioning Services Architecture

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Murugan B Iyyappan

Provisioning Services works differently than Machine Creation Services to provide resources to the users. PVS allows machines to be provisioned and re-provisioned in real time from a single shared vDisk. So the administrators can manage and update only on the … Continue reading →

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What is High Availability Mode in XenApp/XenDesktop 7.5?

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Murugan B Iyyappan

If all Delivery Controllers in a XenApp site fail, we can configure the VDA to operate in high availability mode so that users can continue to access and use their desktops. In high availability mode, the VDA will accept direct … Continue reading →

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What is new in XenApp 7.5?

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Murugan B Iyyappan

The XenApp 7.5 now moves to the FlexCast Management Architecture (FMA) as same as XenDesktop, brings conceptual and more flexible architecture. Here are the differences between XenApp 6 entities and terminology in a XenApp 7.5 world. FlexCast Management Architecture The … Continue reading →

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How big will the XenDesktop transaction log become?

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Murugan B Iyyappan

The XenDesktop database contains both configuration and state information, which must be updated often. A single Virtual Desktop Agent doing nothing for an hour generates approximately 62 kilobytes of transaction log data. The following are the average transaction log calculations: … Continue reading →

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