manage it all with citrix life cycle management

Jim Moyles, Andrew Wood

Manage it all with Citrix Lifecycle Management#citrixsynergy #syn508

Please allow us to introduce ourselves…

Jim Moyle

@jimmoyle

Andrew Wood

@gilwood_cs

IOPS Junky, Demo Upgrade Specialist

Badge Collector

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#syn508

Scene 1: set-up the plot…

Lifecycle Management

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…how hard can it be?

Scene 2: Introduce the cast…

Lifecycle Management OverviewLifecycle Management Overview

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What is Atlantis USX?

REST API

In-House DevOps VVOL

Policy-Based Storage ManagementManagement

Capacity Performance Availability

Services

Data Reduction IO Acceleration Data Management Unified StorageData Mobility Security

HyperDup Content-Aware Data Services

Pooling and Abstraction of Storage HardwareStorage

CloudStack OpenStack

Local StorageShared Storage

LifeCycleMan

Scene 3: the exciting car chase, big explosions and running about

You will need…

External Services Internal Services

Lifecycle ManagementLCM Gateway

CloudPlatform

Microsoft Azure

HyperV

Initial Access...

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First Impressions

Just How Easy is “Easy”?

Not raw tin..Know your templates.. Fun with unattended.xml..Its 5 o’clock somewhere..

..setting up an environment for LCM

….note to selves..don’t forget to show the video on the main screen….really guys… you have 1 job

…don’t be shit

Deploying a XenDesktop PoC

..Partner Blueprints

….note to selves…don’t forget to show the video on the main screen

..dynamic operations

….note to selves…don’t forget to show the video on the main screen

Scene 4: staring out of the window into the distance looking resolute

Use cases

Monitoring and expand out

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