Isolation environment moved to Packaging and Streaming.Design and build a XenApp 6.5 farm with many moving pieces including those broken out below2008 R2 compatibility.The high level overview of this process is as follows: We will get into more of the details of the platform advantages below. Going from the Xenapp 4 platform to the 6.5 platform is a major change with significant improvements. As with most Citrix platform upgrades it is best to start clean with a new farm build without muddying the waters. While technically possible this is not recommended. XenApp Migration Center and Power Shell UpgradeĬitrix does provide a Migration Center and the more savvy engineer can get more granular with power shell to export setting from a legacy farm to a new farm. Migration: A clean, new installation of that feature or release item.Upgrade: Installing a newer version of a feature or release item over an existing version.Citrix Definition of Migration and Upgrade Fortunately with Web Interface and even Storefront this is a seamless process once the new infrastructure is built, tested, and ready to migrate. The only Upgrade that can be done is switching application delivery from legacy to new farm. The farm cannot be upgraded from Presentation Server 4.5 to 6.5, so the applications will have to be reinstalled on the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 platform.
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Since the 6.5 platform is only supported on the Windows 2008 R2 64bit architecture application compatibility becomes the paramount concern. What almost all system architects will be faced with is a new parallel 6.5 farm build migration for XenApp 6.5. There is no solid upgrade path from Presentation Server 4.5 to 6.5 by definition.
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How to Upgrade from Presentation Server 4.5 to Citrix XenApp 6.5 We will first look at the overview of the process of upgrading, then the core changes and finally considerations around upgrading.
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Presentation Server 4.5 went end of life (EoL) March 31 st, 2013.
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XenApp 6.5 was released on August 24 th, 2011. Few migrations have been as thought provoking as Presentation Server 4.5 (often called XenApp 4.5) to 6.5.