They outlined that future XenApp & XenDesktop releases will be separated in two release paths, with ‘Current Release’ bringing new features every few months, and ’Long Term Service Release’ bringing feature stability with support up to 10 years. In January 2016, Citrix announced a new Lifecycle strategy for XenApp & XenDesktop products. It’s also a common architecture for both XenApp and XenDesktop, allowing XenApp customers to continue with hosted-shared apps and desktops and the ability to easily add in VDI later, by simply upgrading the product license, when needed. From an application viewpoint, did you know that the FMA architecture allows you to support applications running on all server platforms since the 2008 R2 release? This makes porting legacy applications into the FMA architecture a snap knowing that you don’t have to complete an entire Operating System migration (though 2008 R2 does come with its own set of challenges).įor XenApp 6.5 customers, XenApp and XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR has all the key enterprise capabilities you’re accustomed to plus much more, including cloud integration, simplified image management and expanded platform support among many other things. Thankfully, with the release of XenApp and XenDesktop 7.15 Long Term Service Release (LTSR), we can now comfortably say that it is on par from a feature set perspective. This has been due to the perceived complexity of the move, supportability of applications and often a feature disparity between the older IMA architecture in 6.5 and the newer FMA architecture in 7.x XenApp and XenDesktop features are now on par Over the last few years there has been hesitation for many customers to move to the 7.x FMA based Architecture. James Kindon looks at the impending end of life of XenApp 6.5, advises that it’s time to seriously be looking at moving to the supported FMA Architecture.
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