We have a load of apps that won't run on Xen6 (hence 2008 R2) and/or x64 platforms. Therefore a mass of App-V sequences. I would have stood up a Xen5 farm, but I just arrived at this gig...
Typed frustratingly slowly on my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: "Tom Miller" <tmil...@hnncsb.org> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:02:33 To: NT System Admin Issues<ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> Reply-To: "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>Subject: Re: App-V on XenApp - shared cache? Not having used App-V but used Citrix products, what are you trying to do with App-V? For our XenDesktop images, I have several, and in all but just a few cases, the applications are installed directly onto those images. Only our EMR and accounting packages are still delivered via Citrix Hosted-App/Program Agent. I have cache sent to the SAN to which the XenServers are connected. I think...need to check. >>> James Rankin <kz2...@googlemail.com> 1/7/2011 8:47 AM >>> If the recommendation is for the "read-only cache" to be used in a VDI environment only, then I guess that for a pure XenApp published desktop environment, I'll have to cache the applications to the XenApp servers themselves, and make the necessary allowances for disk space overhead. Unless, I suppose, I can share a read-only hard drive between all my XenApp VMs, and use that for the cache. I suppose that might work. Not sure whether it would be supported, though. Cheers, On 7 January 2011 13:42, Webster <carlwebs...@gmail.com> wrote: Have no idea if this will answer your question but this comes from a fellow CTP, App-V MVP and the first person certified by Softricity way back in the day. <quote> The App-V Client added support for the “read-only cache” in version 4.6. The intent for this feature is for use in a VDI environment. It allows for significant savings in storage by not including a copy of this cache in every VDI image. It is important to understand that the App-V Client is designed to expect that access to the cache file physical media is continuous and immediate. This is why the feature is advertised to support “directly attached storage” only. Local disks and SAN meet these requirements; however, standard windows file server file shares do not. </quote> Webster From: James Rankin [mailto:kz2...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 5:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: App-V on XenApp - shared cache? Actually doing a bit more digging reveals that shared read-only cache requires a "full" App-V infrastructure in which the client receives it's publishing information direct from an App-V Management Server - does that preclude it from being used when the App-V sequences are being delivered via XenApp? 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