There is a scene in the film The Aviator where Howard Hughes, played by actor Leonardo DiCaprio, repeats the sentence ". Show me all plans" and If you are over and over again not familiar with it, you can see it here:
is exactly what I will do today to show the designs.
Ok, well not exactly shows to them, but to explain to you what is a design and what you can do with it in Citrix lifecycle management. If you really want to see the plans, you must log in / registration for Citrix Workspace cloud and check it out.
What is an action plan?
The Merriam- Webster dictionary defines a plan: " noun blue · pressure - ˌ pressure 1. a photographic print showing how something (like a building) will be 2. made a detailed plan how to do something "
Add Citrix Lifecycle management, the second definition is most applicable. Add CLM is the "something" every software infrastructure (I'll abbreviate from here). You can plan your on clouds like AWS and Azure and XenServer, vSphere or Hyper-V runs deploy in your own data center. Deployments can be run on Windows or Linux operating systems, not to mention already baked virtual appliances as NetScaler VPX.
The composition of a blueprint
A plan in CLM is to do a series of steps, the steps can be categorized in four different ways "something." -. 1) cloud-steps, 2) utility steps 3) and 4 scripts) plans
cloud steps are the games that ignite the fire. The most commonly known as the "Server" step to start a VM. Your design will probably start with this step, and can also include steps to restart, mount volumes and exit VMs. orchestrate all basics of cloud or virtual environment are here.
Utility steps you have control over the flow of the plan. You can have conditional steps, wait steps and approval steps. Your plan could have the option to install Active Directory or integration into an existing.
Scripts are the bread and butter of the Plan. This is where you keep it simple dead or completely carried away. A script is any executable code that will perform a logical action on the server. CLM is programming language agnostic, so you can write batch or PowerShell scripts for Windows or Bash, Perl or Ruby scripts on Linux. You can also upload binary executable files and run also. Scripts can take parameters from the end user, when in use. So, if you have a script that installs a database, you can ask the user for a schema name.
Now, where this gets really powerful when you add maps to your plans. Yes, you can nest a design in your design!
So what do you do when you take a domain controller design, design Delivery Controller, storefront design, VDA design, SQL Server design and NetScaler plan? That's right, you now have a blueprint XenDesktop. But it does not stop there. Next, you can use your master plan and add create your XenDesktop and XenMobile plans. As you have the full suite. Sweet! have
plan also functions that allow you to tear your deployment at the end of the day and / cope Scale-up from a plurality of load.
The crack-down steps usually consist of any cleanup or deallocation for your infrastructure through a stop Server step to do away. This is very useful if the proof of concepts provide you clean up when your review is complete. As you might guess, scale-up will allow you to start additional servers, either manually or automatically controlled according to thresholds, the CLM. You can run scripts while a scale up that adds the newly started servers to the cluster. Scale down let Reverse scale actions when the madness has subsided.
What now?
The world is your oyster. The possibilities are limitless. If you are using XenDesktop or XenApp, provides CLM large out-of-the-box plans for a PoC or production grade infrastructure. You can take these plans and change them to your hearts content and XenDesktop / XenApp deploy infrastructure that meets your business needs. Yes, the infrastructure, the weeks now took up can be used in hours!
If you're a Linux guru and how to build things from scratch, you can do that too. Create plans an Apache webserver, PHP environment, and MySQL server to create. Combine together to create it a LAMP design. Mix it up with Postgres, Tomcat, Jetty, NGINX and more. If you have set up your own virtual appliance, you can create a plan to start and configure the well. Share it with the community to get rich, retire ... you'll thank me later!
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