Synergy 2015 Session Slides: SYN414 Architecting Citrix on Microsoft Azure

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• Understand architectural considerations when building Citrix in Azure • Not a full deployment guide (mini deployment guide) and highlight some

deployment essentials • Discuss scale and economics • Prasanna will discuss futures….

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• Basic architecture (quick jumpstart topology) – Simple Azure only – Simple Hybrid

• Extended architecture – Scale – Availability

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• Connecting via port 443 • All those roles can be installed on a single VM for your PoC • SQL express

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• Connecting via port 443 • All those roles can be installed on a single VM for your PoC • SQL express

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• Understanding Citrix on Azure scale –  IOPS requirement – Sessions per Azure instance type

• Understanding Azure limits and constraints

• Achieving high availability – Azure dependent availability – Built in Citrix availability

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• Assessment was based on LoginVSI (for the XA servers)

• Validated A0 thru A7 (session-based delivery) • Tested the light and medium workloads (loginVSI 4.0)

• Validated D1 thru D14 (session-based delivery) • Tested the Task-worker, Office-worker and knowledge-worker workloads

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• Find the right fit VM… more expensive / more powerful doesn’t necessary get you better performance

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Prasanna Asks: • Netscaler? • Licenses?

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• This will touch upon the main differences from your traditional on-premise deployments

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• And prerequisits • For VDA

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• And prerequisits • For VDA

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• Assessment was based on LoginVSI (for the XA servers)

• Validated A0 thru A7 (session-based delivery) • Tested the light and medium workloads (loginVSI 4.0)

• Validated D1 thru D14 (session-based delivery) • Tested the Task-worker, Office-worker and knowledge-worker workloads

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• Assessment was based on LoginVSI (for the XA servers)

• Validated A0 thru A7 (session-based delivery) • Tested the light and medium workloads (loginVSI 4.0)

• Validated D1 thru D14 (session-based delivery) • Tested the Task-worker, Office-worker and knowledge-worker workloads

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