Quick delivery of XenApp Servers with Provisioning Server
by BassQ on Mar.22, 2009, under Microsoft, Weblog, Windows Server
I don’t know how many times I’ve said that Provisioning Server is probably the coolest technology that Citrix has…
I’ve talked about how to deliver fresh Citrix XenApp Servers every day with Provisioning Server, and Citrix has now posted a video showing off just how quick you can deliver new XenApp Servers with Provisioning Server.
Video
One of the more time-consuming tasks for a XenApp administrator is to build new XenApp servers. This video shows how we can use Provisioning Server to
1. Create an image based on a current installation
2. Take the image and deliver to a whole slew of new XenApp servers
This process not only creates new XenApp servers, but it also adds them into the farm automatically. Simply publish applications with a drag-and-drop and your done. Because each XenApp server is coming from a single image, you can guarantee that each server is identical to each other, a very important XenApp best practice.
