Xendesktop and Xenapp basic question?

Beany

Hi Peeps,

been googling to learn about Xendesktop and Xenapp basics. I know the difference between the two but can someone please briefly tell what difference versions there are for both and whats the difference between each version?

Still slightly confused.

Thanks

thenjduke

XenDesktop is Virtual Desktop which at current version is 7. Virtualize Desktops and the some Citrix Engineers will present the Xendesktop with Applications fro XenApp. Better management for the administrator on desktop sides.
XenApp is Application Virtulization. The current version is 6.5 and you present applications to the end users from XenApp.

ajs1976

with the release of v7, it is a little different now and i'm still trying to sort it out.. XenDesktop is the umbrella term for both now. There is an agent for desktops and and agent for terminal server and both are managed with the same utilities.

dales

XenDesktop is traditionally used for VDI, and XenApp is traditionally for SBC and App presentation. However version 7 of XenDesktop has changed the game.

Both older versions have several different licence entitlements, the interesting thing is that both XenDesktop Enterprise and Platinum also allow you to use XenApp at the same license level. XenDesktop info can be found here XenDesktop Features and Editions - Citrix eDocs .

The basic differences though between the product versions are the inclusions of citrix profile management (which is like roaming profiles except they use stub files), provisioning services, which allows you to create 1 vdisk and then boot multiple vm's or physical devices from the 1 vdisk using pxe or boot iso's. And then there is Edgesight which is a for monitoring performance of a XenApp/ XenDesktop infrastructure its very granular and you can really find out alot of information from it.

XenDesktop 7 though changes that effectively making XenApp (or at least the traditional infrastructure part of it) obsolete. It uses the XenDesktops infrastructure to provide access to both Apps and Desktops for both client and server based workloads.

TheProf

dales wrote: »

XenDesktop is traditionally used for VDI, and XenApp is traditionally for SBC and App presentation. However version 7 of XenDesktop has changed the game.

Both older versions have several different licence entitlements, the interesting thing is that both XenDesktop Enterprise and Platinum also allow you to use XenApp at the same license level. XenDesktop info can be found here XenDesktop Features and Editions - Citrix eDocs .

The basic differences though between the product versions are the inclusions of citrix profile management (which is like roaming profiles except they use stub files), provisioning services, which allows you to create 1 vdisk and then boot multiple vm's or physical devices from the 1 vdisk using pxe or boot iso's. And then there is Edgesight which is a for monitoring performance of a XenApp/ XenDesktop infrastructure its very granular and you can really find out alot of information from it.

XenDesktop 7 though changes that effectively making XenApp (or at least the traditional infrastructure part of it) obsolete. It uses the XenDesktops infrastructure to provide access to both Apps and Desktops for both client and server based workloads.

You beat me to it Dales didn't you were signed up here.