After some recovery, Paul Wilson and I now are ready to announce the availability of version 4 of our model that AWS CloudFormation comes with quite a few changes to the original versions. The changes were necessary to deal with some of your comments using previous versions, such as using your own AMIs, and not those of Citrix controlled. By default, they use the default AWS. Or, to be able to use different versions of NetScaler. But also to be more in line with CloudFormation templates to the Implementation Guide that comes with XenApp on AWS Reference Architecture, we made available last week, which takes a much more modular approach. When v4 CloudFormation creates a completely autonomous environment XenApp on AWS, the modular approach can be integrated and adapted to many existing infrastructures.
Version 4 of JSON CloudFormation template can be downloaded from here.
for detailed instructions on using the v4.1.5 CloudFormation template, download the installation guide here
This new model introduces some new options :.
- Ability to select a specific version NetScaler firmware.
by default, we note the release of v10.1-0.13, but you can now point in the XA on AWS CloudFormation template for one of these three URLs will build a NetScaler with the specific firmware version:
- NetScaler VPX Platinum Edition - 10 mbps version 10.1 to 0.13
https://s3.amazonaws.com/cf-XenApp/NS_VPX_Template_v4.1.json - NetScaler VPX Platinum Edition - 10 mbps version: [1945005101à1197] https://s3.amazonaws.com/cf-XenApp/NS_VPX_Template_v4.json[1945006~~number=plural]
- NetScaler VPX Platinum Edition - version 10 mbps 10.0 - 71.08.e:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/cf-XenApp/NS_VPX_Template_v3.json - public key cryptography used to encrypt and decrypt the default domain and the system administrator passwords. AWS EC2 Console or tools should be used to retrieve these passwords.
- Ability to set the user name and password for an additional administrator account, instead of using the default administrator account
- Introduction of a XenApp account administrator that only has access rights in XenApp
- Option to select the types of instances for different body functions
- Using a striped volume to support more large amounts of IOs to store applications to XenApp servers in line with our best practices
- More flexibility in the naming and configuration of DNS and NetBIOS names to use for the field of infrastructure.
using this new model, as before, in a few hours you have built a XenApp farm in your selected area in the AWS cloud using Netscaler and technology StoreFront. You can use the farm for a number of objectives, including:
- Application Testing
- Business Continuity testing
- Proof-of-Concept
- XenApp performance testing in the cloud
- Learning to manage AWS resources
We appreciate your comments and suggestions about our new NetScaler StoreFront v4 and activated AWS CloudFormation template for XenApp farm.
Paul and Peter
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