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Deploying ZENworks on a Citrix Server Best Practices Guide
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Patching of the Citrix servers and the applications hosted on the Citrix servers
Load balancing of the Citrix servers
Availability of support for the Citrix Server farm that has servers that are a part of an Active
Directory forest or a workgroup
1.2 Gathering Critical Information for Design
Activities
You need to gather information to help you design your specific implementation for deploying
Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management on a Citrix Server.
Review the following sections:
Section 1.2.1, “Performing a Technical Assessment,” on page 10
Section 1.2.2, “Factors Influencing Scalability,” on page 11
Section 1.2.3, “Scale Numbers,” on page 11
Section 1.2.4, “Ports Used by the ZENworks Agent,” on page 12
1.2.1 Performing a Technical Assessment
You need to perform a technical assessment to review what you already have, identify what you
need, and document your requirements.
You also need to have a good understanding of the existing infrastructure. To do this, you should
hold a set of workshops or meetings to obtain all the information you need.
The two main results from a technical assessment are documentation on your findings, along with a
set of tasks that you need to perform. Information that you should gather includes the following:
Which version of Citrix Server should you use?
For more information on the supported versions of Citrix Server, see the
ZENworks 10
Configuration Management Installation Guide (http://www.novell.com/documentation/zcm10/
index.html)
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What is the maximum number of user sessions per server that can be active on Citrix Server?
If the maximum number of user sessions per server is more than the recommended number, try
adding more servers to the Citrix farm. We plan to provide such recommendations for the
ZENworks 11 Configuration Management product after the product is released.
Is user-based management used?
If it is used, a policy or bundle must be assigned to the users only if the policy or bundle is not
applicable to all the users logging in to the server. However, if the policy or bundle is applicable
to all the users logging in to the server, assign it to the device instead of assigning it to all the
users.
For example, if there are 150 bundles that are assigned to the users and 50 bundles are common
to all the users logging in to a device, assign these 50 bundles to the device instead of the user.
Are servers available in the Citrix farm? If they are, how many servers are available and are
these servers load balanced?
