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Virtualization Manager
for Citrix® XenappTM
Unlocking Application Compatibility and Enabling "Best Fit"
- Dramatically reduce XenApp Streaming projects’ deployment time and cost.
- Avoid the risk of isolations causing applications to fail ... assess the issues and measure the risk quickly.
- Identify dependencies early on and enable successful profiling.
- Identify issues and unsuitable components up-front and reduce failures.
Virtualization Manager for Citrix XenApp highlights issues which make applications unsuitable for virtualization. It finds co-dependent resources required for successful application functioning when virtuaized. And it identifies which applications are good candidates for virtualization.
The Interoperability Dilemma
XenApp is a powerful solution to historical desktop application interoperability problems. It manages applications over Windows Installer based solutions rapidly and efficiently. However, to successfully adopt this technology you need to identify which applications are suitable. And, decide what to do with an application to make it succeed under virtualization. XenApp isolates applications from each other and the Operating System (OS). Virtualizing the applications in this way means that they are completely separate from one another, and aren't installed to the OS in the traditional sense. Applications can still consume resources provided by the OS, but not from other isolated applications. Automated XenApp suitability and dependency analysis
Assess and measure the risk
XenApp Isolation can cause incompatibility when applications, which provide resources that require tight integration with the OS (e.g. drivers and services). Here isolation prevents successful functioning. Similarly, when applications
communicate with each other or consume resources delivered by applications, isolation causes these external resources to be unavailable and applications can fail. With Virtualization Manager you can easily assess the issues, measure the risk and successfully virtualize the applications which are suitable.
Identify issues and dependencies
A virtualized application solution helps your IT department reduce their labour costs. This in turn lowers the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and delivers greater value to the business. Understanding how to manage a successful XenApp project can be complex and require expensive, technically skilled specialists. Virtualization Manager quickly highlights issues. It analyses the entire portfolio in advance, and enables complex and difficult to identify dependencies to be identified early. This results in greater accuracy, time savings and success in profling.
Virtualization Manager: Features:
- Summary and detailed reporting in 'traffic light' status
- Automatically identifies known issues that would affect an application's suitability for virtualization, such as drivers, shell extensions and plug-ins
- Reporting of issues: detailed explanation of what they mean, their potential impact, and recommended remediation advice
- Application resource dependency mapping to identify applications which rely on other
- Identifies resources which should be added or removed from profiles to ease operation
Virtualization Manager: Benefits:
- Rapid assessment of entire portfolio to see if the application is suitable for virtualization with Citrix XenApp, before the project, reduces cost and enables accurate project planning
- Reduce risk by scoping the remediation activity required to sequence successfully
- Detailed technical information about the applications improves prioritisation of sequencing activity
- Sequencing projects are more successful: better decision making, and reduced time, overall project cost and risk to the business