![]() From there on they will also take care of any ongoing management and maintenance tasks. You tell Citrix what you need and they will set it up and configure it for you. Your Delivery Controllers, SQL database, License Server, Studio, Director and/or StoreFront servers will all live up in the Citrix Workspace Cloud as part of the Apps and Desktops service. Or better said, Citrix has already taken care of that for you. Simply put, you take a ‘normal’ XenDesktop / XenApp deployment and then ‘cloudify’ the infrastructural or management pieces and components. So how does all this work? Let me walk you through it. They are connected to the Workspace Cloud services platform through Cloud Connectors. These Resource Locations can be located on-premises, within a datacentre or on a public or privately owned cloud: it doesn’t really matter, as you are in control. Below that are the Resource Locations: that is where the XenDesktop / XenDesktop VDAs, data and applications reside, which are managed, controlled and owned by you, the customer or a partner in between – a CSP, for example. The CWC control centre, or control plane, is at the top of the stack: it’s where all the magic happens, so to speak, and what you as an administrator would use, or interact with, to manage and configure your CWC-based deployments. The idea behind this project? Before commenting, read the introduction blog post here For the purpose of this book I will focus on the Apps and Desktop and Life Cycle Management services. It offers us several different services these are Apps and Desktops (XenDesktop and XenApp), Mobility Management (XenMobile), Secure Documents (ShareFile) and Life Cycle Management, which is sort of new. ![]() Since CWC is still a relatively new offering / product, and evolving as we speak, I wouldn’t be surprised if the current subscription model, the services involved and perhaps even its name will change before the end of 2016.Ĭitrix Workspace Cloud is actually more of a managed or management platform than anything else. For this they apply a so-called phased ‘bucket’ approach, which unfortunately, is still under NDA at this time. Being a cloud platform / service it has the added advantage of getting new code out to customers relatively quickly. In fact, as soon as Citrix introduces a new feature or functionality that touches the FMA, CWC will have it first. Since it also heavily relies on the FlexCast Management Architecture I couldn’t write this book without at least mentioning it. Unless you are completely new to working with XenDesktop and/or XenApp products, you must have heard a thing or two about the Citrix Workspace Cloud (CWC) by now.
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