Are you still looking in the mirror? Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com<http://www.carlwebster.com/>
From: kz2...@googlemail.com [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 3:07 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS No probs, feel free to hit me up for more info, I am currently involved in the worlds most boring project Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY ________________________________ From: Sean Martin <seanmarti...@gmail.com<mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com>> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:57:50 -0900 To: NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com<mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>> ReplyTo: "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com<mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>> Subject: Re: Vmware Design for XenApp 6.5 w/PVS Sorry for the delayed response. Thanks again James, this is fantastic information. I'm doing all I can to disseminate this amongst my team. I'm sure I'll have more follow ups as we start on the low level design and implementation of each technology. - Sean On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:49 AM, James Rankin <kz2...@googlemail.com<mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com>> wrote: If you're using the Personalization Server feature (and it sounds like you are), you need to be aware that if you lose this area of the environment, not only do you get no customization of user profile, session or any of their applications, you take the risk of overwriting the Personalization data with default data and causing all sorts of problems for your user base. With this in mind, you'll want heavy redundancy on both the SQL backend and in the web services that facilitate communication with the SQL backend. AppSense supports clustering, replication, mirroring and all the other usual SQL redundancy features. You will also probably want to configure some failover in the web services that provide the Management Server site and the Personalization Server site. There are some non-default options within Personalization itself I'd recommend - Offline Resiliency ensures that in the event of a database outage, the client caches Personalization data and resyncs once the database is available. I'd also recommend enabling either the web portal and/or the self-service profile reset features, which again will dictate the sizing of your database depending on how many archives you keep. See this article for a discussion of AppSense database sizing - http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/appsense-management-server-and_13.html There are also a few gotchas around AppSense and PVS I'd want to bear in mind - http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/using-appsense-with-citrix-provisioning.html and some AV considerations - http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/antivirus-exclusions-for-appsense.html I'd also recommend you seriously consider using the Performance Manager feature of AppSense. It can eke out up to 40% higher user density on XenApp platforms - a serious ROI if ever there was one. On the XenApp side, I think Web has more than adequately covered what you need. I'll back him up on the fact that StoreFront (I dare speak the name) is not really fit for purpose yet. If you need any more advice on the AppSense side of things feel free to shoot me an email offline, although at your current stage I don't think you need do much other than scope for the heavy redundancy in the SQL side of things. Cheers, JR On 28 February 2013 17:29, Sean Martin <seanmarti...@gmail.com<mailto:seanmarti...@gmail.com>> wrote: We haven't gone through the low-level design process for each of the deliverables yet, so I am not sure if we're using that feature. Is that a part of the Environment Manager? Our implementation of AppSense is purely for a profile management solution because of the garbage that roaming profiles makes us deal with in our current environment. - Sean On Feb 28, 2013, at 8:03 AM, kz2...@googlemail.com<mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com> wrote: Are you using the AppSense Personalization Server feature? That's going to have a big influence on your requirements if you are. Sent from my Blackberry, which may be an antique but delivers email RELIABLY ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
