To simulate this, I installed a XenApp 6.5 environment, including a DataCollector and Session-host server in one. For more information:īefore we start, we need to (of course) have a source environment.
#CITRIX XENAPP 6.5 INSTALLATION STEPS FULL#
Smart Check: Smart Check provides all the information from your Citrix (Cloud or on-premises) environment–the ‘health’ of the site, diagnosis of problems and recommended fixes that allow you to keep the area up-to-date What about Licensing?Ĭitrix Smart Tools is free available to all Citrix customers with an active Citrix Cloud subscription – or when you have a valid Subscription Advantage contract.įor the full license feature page, please take a look at this official Citrix page: Ĭitrix is changing their support contracts in July 2017, so there can be some changes. Smart Scale: Smart Scale provides insight into the use of the area(s), displays costs transparent and can be scaled up or scaled down in any time *Smart Migrate: Smart Migrate makes it possible to migrate, quickly and easily, Published Applications and Citrix policies of an existing XenApp 6.5 or VMware Horizon View environment to the current version of XenApp/XenDesktop (7.13 now) Smart Build: In Smart Build, you are able to design, and easily create new Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop sites both on-premises and for the public cloud, based on best practices/blueprints That makes the following 4 services available in total: With the introduction of the new name, Smart Tools, Citrix also added the Smart Scale and Smart Check services that weren’t available before. As already said in the above section, all delivered straight from the Citrix Cloud.
It’s just as simple as 1-2-3 and it can save you a lot of time, curious? Just read the whole article – enjoy reading! Table of ContentsĬlick on the title to get forwarded in the article:Ĭitrix Smart Tools is a set of cloud-based tools to help you speed up and create the design, deployment, and management of Citrix solutions across any on-premises or cloud environment.
During the migration process, Smart Tools creates a Delivery Group in the XenApp 7.13 site and imports the selected application and policy settings from XenApp 6.5. In this article I will use the Smart Migrate functionality of Smart Tools to migrate published applications and user/computer policies from a (simulated) XenApp 6.5 environment to the latest Citrix XenApp 7.13 current release. So with that in mind I thought to myself that it can be relevant to highlight this simple method to migrate from XenApp 6.5 – IMA (Independent Management Architecture) to the latest XenApp 7.13 – FMA (Flexcast Management Architecture).
#CITRIX XENAPP 6.5 INSTALLATION STEPS UPGRADE#
In short: The tool that provides service delivery management – Cloud-based control – to optimize, build, scale, check, and migrate existing or new Citrix XenApp or XenDesktop environments – all taking place from the Citrix Cloud.Īs of today, there are still many customers running XenApp 6.5 in their production environments, with the need to upgrade in short notice, because the software will be out of support on 31 December 2017 and be end of life on 30 June 2018. As you probably know, on 22nd December 2016, Citrix renamed their Lifecycle Management Services to Citrix Smart Tools.
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