New virtualization exams to Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 now available

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Citrix Education is pleased to announce the availability of the following virtualization solutions certification exams announce:

newly released exam The new test replaces Associated certification
1Y0-201 Managing Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 solutions testing 1Y0-0 manage Citrix XenDesktop solutions 7 exam (Citrix Education will end the 1Y0-0 exam on July 11, 2015) CCA - V
1Y0-301 Deploying Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 solutions testing 1Y0-300 Deploying Citrix XenDesktop solutions 7 exam (Citrix Education will end the 1Y0-300 exam to achieve V

the CCA - - August 11, 2015)

CCP V certification and passing the exam 1Y0-301

1Y0- 401 Designing Citrix XenDesktop 7.6 solutions testing 1Y0-400 planning Citrix XenDesktop solutions 7 exam (Citrix Education will end the 1Y0-400 examination on August 11, 2015) CCE - V

By achieving the CCP - V certification and passing the exam 1Y0-401

more information about Citrix virtualization solutions certifications here

with the release. Virtualization (CCP - - V) and from the Citrix Certified by 1Y0-301 1Y0-401 and tests, we would also the forthcoming expiry of the upgrade paths from Citrix Certified Enterprise Engineer (CCEE) for virtualization for Citrix Certified Professional notified Integration Architect (CCIA) for virtualization for Citrix Certified Expert - virtualization (CCE - V). The update paths will expire on August 11 2015 associated with the discontinuation of the 1Y0-300 and 1Y0-400 exams. Click here to learn more.

If you hold a current CCEE or CCIA certification, and you are interested in, just act the update path in using an equivalent virtualization solutions certification by taking and passing an exam, earn quick before the update path goes away.

With XenApp, and Local Storage for service providers DaaS

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With Citrix Solutions Lab we are always to implement looking for ways to Citrix software, the advantage of what Citrix deals use and what our competitors do not always reach.

In the recently published

of Citrix Service Provider solution on Microsoft Hyper-V and Cisco UCS Design Guide, we have a different approach for Hosted Shared Desktop (HSD) VMs and storage.

The rationale for a solution without a SAN or NAS building .:

costs and alternative approaches IOPS to reduce them

Typically desktops Citrix service provider as a service solution leverages Citrix provisioning Services (PVS) for Hosted Shared VMs, a write cache file uses the Windows swap file and PVS Write cache keep. This write cache is often held in a SAN or NAS. Due to the potentially high number of IOPS that can be created in hosted desktop workloads, beefy SAN or NAS storage is required, often to support a large number of users and VMs. Although the PVS Cache has significantly reduced in RAM disk overflow function IOPS requirements, some service providers at this stage may be interested in an alternative approach, if described with smaller scale scenarios.

What is High Availability?

Another decision drivers for the use of a SAN is a high availability (HA).

If the physical servers are in a cluster, the VMs can be migrated to another server in the cluster. With the latest versions of Microsoft Hyper-V there is no need for a cluster VMs to migrate between servers. But if a physical server fails in a cluster, the VM can not be accessed, migrated or restarted on other servers.

Both of these considerations have been taken into account, as we. For the use of local designed memory instead of a SAN or NAS

for this style guide we were providers for cost-effective, fast Citrix Service solution, and since storage is always one of the main costs in an insert (Citrix Service Provider Search or Enterprise customers / partners), our goal was to investigate the reduction of the cost. The question to be answered was: "Can we do this all on local storage while HA and power maintained at a reasonable price"? On a side note, a slow older SAN was used to keep the PVS vDisks and Infrastructure VMs as Active Directory, DNS, SQL, etc. Broker

So what we have built? [1945006[

SAN is no longer a driving requirement for VM migration, we decided to remove the SAN and use local memory in the Cisco blades for the write cache files, and configure the VMs PVS RAM cache with disk overflow, which also reduces the IOPS for storage. Each sheet was installed with a 400 GB SSD to hold the write cache data, and a 300 GB HDD to the operating system.

So, without migration or a SAN, which keep HA? 7.5 XenApp allows the creation of "Delivery Groups" (formerly known as "Worker Groups" in XenApp 6.5 known), the grouping of servers together. All the VMs belong to the same delivery group and with each VM error the workload to other VMs will be redistributed as the users log back. Each physical server 30 user 7 HSD VMs, each VM supports supports. The delivery group is configured in an N + 1 configuration, in which the loss of a VM can through the remaining VMs, and the same will be taken for the physical server. Even if a SAN using N + 1 configuration, should be able to be considered to handle the loss of a single physical server, or VMs migrate for server maintenance. Our configuration allows us the same level of HA support.

advantage! Adding more users on a large scale is very simple.

With a SAN if you have space, you can easily add more users, but if you do not have the space, then it becomes a problem. With the local storage solution, if you want to add additional users, add additional servers and join them to the delivery group.

What local storage works with free known per user?

[1945003einphysischerServerunterstützt7HSDVMsjedeVM-Unterstützung30BenutzerWenn] and an SSD costs $ 00 per user then your storage costs 4.29 to $ works (00 / (7 * 30)). It still needs a SAN or NAS to be to keep the VDA files and infrastructure components, but it does not require the amount of IOPs needed a HSD or VDI environment support.

This approach of local storage is not appropriate in all situations, but it offers some interesting possibilities for specific environments.

Learn the new Citrix Service Provider solution more on Microsoft Hyper-V and Cisco UCS Design Guide.

for further work by Citrix Solutions Lab, visit www.citrix.com/go/solutions-lab.

Hey DJ, Play My Mix! HP & Moonshot Citrix Mobile workspaces "Awesome Mix, Vol. 1"

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As a child in the 80s, growing up, I remember my first Sony Walkman and a few bands I'd played again over and again 'til a big impact on were stretched and distorted me.

on music from the 70s and 80s some of the best is raised in rock history had-. As I got older and my taste in music progressed, so has my collection of music. I started to get, punk, hip hop and Chicago house music in the rock.

Play cassette was on a boom box "the big thing" at that time. They were huge, clunky, and we thought they were fantastic. Then came the Sony Walkman. And we were blown away. The Walkman-one of the first truly mobile devices gave me a mobile music experience; I took it everywhere I went.

As I grew older, my collection of music grew and mix the concept of music and mashups entered. Fast forward to 2015 and almost endless supply of storage media of today, the mobile mix of experience can only meet each.

One might ask, "What to do with HP and Citrix have mixing" and it is a big question.

at Citrix Synergy 2015 and HP Discover 2015 Citrix and HP was a foretaste of the next evolution of HP Moonshot and Citrix. Citrites were from the Citrix stands on the Moonshot state go constantly mixed cartridges interested customers to demonstrate the VIP experience of the new Citrix Mobile Workspace available on HP Moonshot.

As you may know, Citrix and HP have worked together on the HP Moonshot project since early 2013 then-when I was first exposed to the Moonshot platform I knew as well as others, such as David Cottingham Citrix that it was contrary to all that we had seen before. I was optimistic that one day, it would be an amazing blend of micro-physical XenDesktop sessions, micro-physical XenApp sessions machine and a hypervisor to help deliver anywhere in this mixture, each infrastructure workload all run in a single chassis.

Well, my fellow mixologists? The time has come and Citrix and HP are working to deliver the first micro mixed workloads on the platform Moonshot. Let's look a few scenarios where these micro-mixing can architecture work for you.

Physicalization

Scenario 1 physical desktops without hypervisor

Imagine that you, an organization, as is, for example, a university and have some developers and students who require dedicated computing, networking, storage, and graphics. But virtualization desktop way to go down with a hypervisor does not fit your needs. run driven in this case m700 HP Proliant XenDesktop Moonshot of the AMD Opteron APU may be the perfect fit.

If users must be isolated and secured, so that the creation of code, the CPU can not influence someone else be intense-, this is a good solution. In this scenario, the HDX standard VDA a superior experience with AMD Radeon 8000 graphics card offers.

Perhaps you are a service provider and need to provide a tenant Desktop, which can be separated at a physical level of the others. In this case, the Proliant this scenario serves m700 cartridge well.

Scenario 2- virtual applications and desktops Hosted Shared with on demand blank -metal Intel graphics

While many users in a virtual desktop world local applications have loaded into their golden image, provide server-hosted applications using Citrix XenApp on the Proliant M710 cartridge can be done to the application deployment to simplify.

, for example, imagine that you are a doctor and have already logged into your XenDesktop session on the m700 cartridge. You can use Citrix Receiver to select applications that you are hosted on XenApp in the same chassis on a cartridge right next door! Cool, right?

The HP Proliant M710 cartridge that on-demand use of graphics can be used for the GPU-intensive applications such as Auto Cad and Adobe. End users can immediately run GPU-based applications that call on the Intel E3 chipset with Iris Pro graphics without delay. Seamless applications, such as applications that are WebGL-based, can also on-demand graphics with the Intel Iris Pro on the M710, the benefit.

Many of these same Windows applications such as SAP can be supplied by Microsoft System Center 2012R2 with the Citrix port 7 for System Center to automate the deployment of applications for each M710 XenApp server. This flexible architecture provides a quick and easy way for your micro XenApp machines on the M710 building and makes the application management easier when new instances XenApp to provide. , All applicable course in looking on the XenApp hosted shared desktop approach here as well, and for service providers, this is a great add-on applications to provide for the tenants.

Scenario 3: Low-Power with dedicated high computing and high graphics

business verticals have many kinds of users, where common operating system model as XenApp may not be sufficient for the execution of certain non-multi-user applications or high power applications. without replacing the hardware with the M710 In such situations, it might be best to deliver applications with XenDesktop to bare metal in a Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 world. In an example like this, with Citrix XenDesktop, the Proliant M710 cartridge and a high rakes are used provide HDX experience with either HDX Standard or HDX 3D Pro for users, such as stock traders or machine manufacturers. Each user has their own dedicated machine with dedicated Intel E3 processing and Iris Pro Graphics and has completely isolated desktop.

Small classic VDI.

If you are running comfortable with a hypervisor virtual machine, you're in luck.

with the HP Proliant Moonshot M710, we can now also run Windows 2012R2 with HyperV or Citrix XenServer 6.5 and also deliver virtual Windows client desktops. This design allows you to create a handful of Windows client VMs and virtualizing, if you have an immediate need to provide desktops on a small scale.

Of course, if you are using XenServer 6.5 SP1, there is an added bonus to get the Intel Iris Pro GPU of virtualizing graphics card as well as to share, check are so David Cottingham session of Synergy 2015, the low-down. For large VDI with Citrix XenDesktop, which provides HP Converged Systems 7000 with XenDesktop a highly scalable blade solution with support for thousands of XenDesktop sessions.

Check out Volume 2 for the next mix!

El impacto de la movilidad empresarial en el ahorro de costos de tu empresa

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En mis charlas con CIO siempre surge un tema clave: el ahorro de costos. Y en parte, su decisión de orientarse hacia la movilidad empresarial también tiene como objetivo lograr esa tan Deseada reducción. Por eso cuando nos embarcamos en esa charla les hago esta pregunta: ¿Qué están costos pensando optimizar Gracias a la movilidad empresarial? Y la respuesta, general, tiene que ver con el costo de la reducir Adquisición de PCs.

La realidad que la it movilidad empresarial implementada bajo un esquema de virtualisation de ESCRITORIOS y aplicaciones de tiene el potencial de lograr reducir costos; pero mucho más importantes costos que los de una PC. Costos que implican mirar a la empresa como un todo y que involucran grandes inversiones de capital:

  • Real Estate Quizas uno de los costos fijos más elevados que las empresas Deban afrontar sea el de tener una oficina, suficientemente grande y cómoda, Acorde ya las necesidades de los empleados. Asimismo, hay que todo el calcular equipamiento que se requiere por puesto de trabajo (sillas, ESCRITORIOS, entre otros). La movilidad empresarial permite reducir estos gastos habilitando a los empleados a trabajar en distintos espacios de trabajo Segun la tarea que desempeñan y sus preferencias. Por ejemplo, una que están modalidad utilizando empresas las es la de ESCRITORIOS compartidos; como muchos empleados son móviles, Tienen menos ESCRITORIOS y los empleados los "reservan" cuando necesitan ir a la oficina. O también empiezan a predominar las Salas de reuniones o más espacios amplios de colaboración por sobre los ESCRITORIOS Solitarios. Esto se debe a que se aprovecha el contacto cara a cara para el trabajo en equipo y no tanto para tareas que cada individuales empleado puede hacer desde otro lugar.
  • Fuga de Información constantemente vemos en las noticias que el digital it cada vez menos seguro mundo. Y en ese contexto, la fuga de Información es una de las más grandes Preocupaciones de las Empresas y por eso muchas de ellas no deciden dar el paso hacia la movilidad pensando que el riesgo será aún mayor. Lo cierto que existen it tecnologías como la que los virtualization y MDM permiten brindar movilidad sin poner en riesgo la Seguridad de los datos. It decir, se puede consultar la información, editar documentos pero no la empresa sacarla de. Esto que hace el trabajo sea más y Productivo eficiente, pero a la vez que no nos garantiza expondremos a los múltiples costos que involucra la fuga de Información
  • Recursos Humanos .: la competencia por tener a los mejores y talentos retenerlos it cada vez mayor. En la actualidad vemos Nuevas Generaciones de empleados que las empresas ingresan a Pidiendo nuevos estilos de trabajo y el uso de tecnología para demandando agilizar procesos, tal como lo hacen en su vida personally. Son empleados que ya crecieron con la tecnología que la ven como algo natural, como algo que toda empresa debería brindar. Por eso, en el proceso de selección de estos talentos y a la hora de retenerlos es un diferencial poder ofrecerles desde IT soluciones de movilidad que les permitan trabajar desde donde lo más consideren Productivo para la tarea que Haran. En contraposición a atarlos a un lugar fijo que limite su creatividad y que, con el tiempo, les Haga perder el interés de formar parte de nuestra compañía. Reclutar, contratar y Capacitar a los mejores talentos por supuesto implica un costo para la Organización que puede fácilmente echarse a perder si no sabemos cómo retenerlos.

Ser más productivos, crear espacios de trabajo más Acordes a las necesidades del negocio y ahorrar costos es posible. La Clave está en la implementar movilidad por medio de que tecnologías permitan mantener segura la información y bajo políticas clara que esta nueva regulen modalidad de trabajo.

Introducing Citrix New Enablement Training Site!

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Citrix has put increased value on our partners, the right tools and resources at the right time to be successful.

[1945001zudiesemZweck], Citrix is ​​excited to announce the all-new Citrix Enablement training site. This page is to free a single point of pre-sales training, including sales and technical courses. Through this training, hopes Citrix Citrix presales skills improve, so you effectively and efficiently promote Citrix!

The site offers a wide range of on-demand e-learning courses, including self-study laboratories, in addition to in order to enroll students in instructor led training programs. The content covered in these courses is geared towards Sales and Sales Engineers and includes the latest versions of NetScaler, XenDesktop and XenMobile and Synergy Learning Lab hands-on training! This will give you access to the courses, which our internal team; However, partner landing page was designed to make it easier to find what you need

The website .:

  • Skills Pathway. : courses are organized to the new skills used Pathway, the courses in a progressive order classifies a building block approach to acquiring new skills to facilitate
  • Full Library access: in addition to the feature -Courses on the skills way, you can also search the library for additional material! The library provides sorting and filtering functions by course level and content type help sharpen the right courses
  • Course Resources & On-Demand Labs .: course materials and associated resources are available for download at "resources tab". Hands on lab environments are also available for classes, brought the exercises in conjunction
  • iLearn .: ECC offers a personal area called iLearn that keeps track of the courses you have taken, provides access to materials to the class, and makes it easy to access all on-demand courses going again bring have previously brought to the path.

50 courses are already available and there will be more added daily. To begin, log http://enablement.citrix.com today with the Citrix account and start your learning today!


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Mobility Experts: Configure WorxApps With Office 365

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Configure In this blog, we go through the steps as WorxApps Worxmail, WorxNotes and WorxTasks with Office 365 support and the end user experience.

Environmental Details

Component version
XMS 10.0
WorxMail 10.x
WorxNotes 10.x
WorxTasks 10.x

requirements

1. Microsoft Office 365 account.

2. WorxApps MDX Wrapped files (WorxMail, WorxNotes and WorxTasks) must be uploaded XMS server.

3 device should be able to achieve outlook.office365.com ( on port 443 ) directly if WorxMail MDX policy to Unrestricted mode or NetScaler should be be able to achieve, outlook.office365.com ( on port 443 ) when WorxMail MDX Directive tunnel is set to the internal network.

4. Initial XMS server to be completed.

configuration WorxMail, WorxTasks and WorxNotes for Office365 account

1. Start the XMS server via the browser and enter the username and password in the server sign

example: https: // : 4443

2. Click the Start button to continue

3. Under Configure -., select> Apps application WorxMail and 4. Edit

Click Next

5. Scroll down until the section app settings and enter the Outlook Exchange server name for Office365 and WorxMail user domain ( optional ). Here I outlook.office365.com entered as Exchange Server.

6. Enter the same details for Android Platform

7. Disable Windows Phone that.

8. Click Next

9. Select the delivery group and click Save.

10. Under Configure -> Apps, select the WorxTasks application and click Edit

11th . Scroll until the app settings page down and enter the Office365 Exchange Server name for WorxTasks Exchange Server field.

12. On Android is the Exchange Server box, not as WorxTasks for Android requires a valid WorxMail account because they do not want to not sync directly with Exchange.

13. Disable the Windows Phone

option 14. Click Next

15. Select the delivery group and click Save.

16. Under Configure -> Apps, select the WorxNotes application and click Edit

17th . For iOS, enter outlook.office365.com as WorxNotes Exchange Server. WorxNotes user domain is optional.

18 For Android, Enter outlook.office365.com as WorxNotes Exchange Server

19. Disable the Windows Phone

option 20. click Next

21. Choose Delivery Group, and click

WorxMail for iOS -. Start End User Experience

1. On iOS enter WorxMail and password.

2. Enter the user name in the format @ as indicated below and enter the password, and click Login.

3. Download folder start

4. Compose an email to a non-domain users ,

5. We can see in the Sent Items e-mail.

6. Locate the contact of the same domain Office365

7. Below is the contact information such as mobile, telephone number and email

WorxMail for Android - , End User Experience

1. Start WorxMail for Android, and you are prompted, the user name and password to enter information.

2. The input is not necessary, the domain. Enter your username in typing @ format and password.

3. Account Verification Starts


4. After confirmation the account Saving account.

5. E-mail synchronization begins.

6. Search for a contact from the same domain Office365.

WorxNotes for iOS End User Experience

1. On iOS launch WorxNotes and you will see the following screen. Tap Under WorxNotes.

2. Enter the user name as @ and password.

3. Wait is completed on the account verification.

4. Once the account is confirmed, syncing of Notes starts.

5. Create a test score.

6. You can see option for reporting on "Send". Tap Send.

7. Tap. On email

8. Componse email

9. You. The name of the recipient and tap Send

10. From Step 7 Touch E-mail as an attachment, and you will see the following page.

to 11 see. Enter the recipient's name

12. Tap Send.

13. We can test the e-mail in Outlook (step 16), see

14. We can the e-mail with attachment in Outlook (see step 19)

WorxNotes - Android End User Experience

1. on Android device launch WorxNotes and you will see the following screen. Tap Under WorxNotes.

2.

3. Create a Note

4. test score Created.

5. Tap highlighted on the icon and hit send.

6. Enter the recipient's name. Send

7. Hit.

Office 365 Registration Tasks and Featured articles start

1. browser and login https://outlook.office365.com and click tasks.

2. Here we can set up to display the selected objects and tasks of the user.

3. In the next section we will look at the Office365 account on the WorxTasks with

WorxTasks get these tasks synchronized - iOS End User Experience

1. When the user WorxTasks starts, the first page has the field User without Office365 domain name.

2. Fill in the username field by appending the Office365 domain name to the user name, as shown below and enter the password, and tap Sign-On.

3. User Account Verification starts

4. Once the account is verified, start syncing of tasks from the Outlook , as shown below.

5. Now we can see that the user was created in Outlook published in WorxTasks ..

6. We can see the terms of reference, as shown below.

7. The Reported email from Outlook appear here.

8. Reported email content.

9. All tasks in a single site in WorxTasks application

WorxTasks be considered - Android End User Experience

1. Start WorxTasks for Android.

2. Click to synchronize Let accepting the WorxNotes with Exchange account.

WorxTasks for Android requires a valid WorxMail account because they do not do not want to synchronize directly with Exchange.

. 3 Tap Start

4. We can all see tasks created by the user in Outlook are published here.

5. Reported emails.

6. Tasks window.