Manage it all with Citrix Life Cycle Management
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Session SYN508 from the Geek Speak live track form Citrix Synergy 2015 by Citrix Technology Professionals Jim Moyle (@jimmoyle) and Andrew Wood (@gilwood_cs)
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- 1. Jim Moyles, Andrew Wood Manage it all with Citrix Lifecycle Management #citrixsynergy #syn508
- 2. Please allow us to introduce ourselves… Jim Moyle @jimmoyle Andrew Wood @gilwood_cs IOPS Junky, Demo Upgrade Specialist Badge Collector
- 3. 3 #syn508
- 5. Scene 1: set-up the plot…
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- 9. 9 @stealthpuppy Hands off My Gold Build http://lnk.glwdcs.tv/1EZyXcn @xenappblog Automated Master Image Creatio http://lnk.glwdcs.tv/1zUiBTr
- 10. 10 …how hard can it be?
- 11. Scene 2: Introduce the cast…
- 12. Lifecycle Management OverviewLifecycle Management Overview
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- 14. 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
- 15. Scene 3: the exciting car chase, big explosions and running about
- 16. You will need… External Services Internal Services Lifecycle Management LCM Gateway CloudPlatform Microsoft Azure HyperV
- 19. Just How Easy is “Easy”? Not raw tin.. Know your templates.. Fun with unattended.xml.. Its 5 o’clock somewhere..
- 20. ..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
- 21. Deploying a XenDesktop PoC
- 22. ..Partner Blueprints ….note to selves…don’t forget to show the video on the main screen
- 23. ..dynamic operations ….note to selves…don’t forget to show the video on the main screen
- 24. Scene 4: staring out of the window into the distance looking resolute
- 26. Use cases
- 27. Monitoring and expand out
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Editor's Notes
- Housekeeping; not aware of any firedrills Twitter No need to turn off your mobile phones; but must speak into the microphone Get a hashtag
- What is Lifecycle Management – is it the old workflow manager? Quite often talk about *application* life cycle management – and cloud platforms aren’t without what sound like comparable technologies Andy will admit than when we first considered this topic we we going to talk about scalextreme – but he was unsure that it would be interesting for many people. What interested us is that scalextreme (when we first saw it) was a solution that spans different environments not just for a cloud platform, not just for xenserver; not just for web apps – but a solution that could be used in/off premise to deploy and manage the environment And in a hybrid world that many organisations have today, that is a very cool thing that we wanted to take a look at. Because we think Cloud workspace gives the pivot that allows you to manage and control both on/off premise environments..
- Because often organisations it is all about managing an entire stack – because when you start to miss parts out, take parts out – it can all fall down We’re on steering committee for UK citrix user group – number of the events we have Citrix SEs, Product Managers come along talk, listen and intereact – but we also get testing teams and support guys come along to listen about how the Citrix product are used. What they found interesting, but likely what we at the last event was the feedback from those guys around “didn’t realise how much other tools are used *with* citrix – be it appsense, be it res, be it atlantis computing’s storage optimisation – the “EUC stack” has a number of parts that fit together to deliver best user experience, easier management. Not only how you put your stack together.. But how do you make it stand up reliably and consistently.
- Reference where we got the graph from .. If you do a task twice – automate it is a common desire – but the process of automation can be complex, time consuming and … in the end you wonder if it was worth it in the first place. Problem with a lot of management infrastructures and automation processes is that there is complexity and difficulty in setting up the environment, building the automation process, validating the code that does the automation piece. Sometimes you can be left considering “would it have been easier if I’d just done it manually” So with, what we saw of the capabilities of Scaleextreme what we wanted to understand is - can the “traditional” complexity of that management/automation coding piece be reduced/resolved/removed by using a service? Can we deliver on theory piece and side step those common issues Simplify the delivery of the service Minimise “coding” time
- Because ultimately the goal is about a building block approach across platforms – repeatable, consistent, easy to deliver Jim working for vision app – andy on ADS deployment back in the day… we’ve got form / background / long standing interest in this field Talk about method deployment today and link with scalability / burstability/ to dip into & out of the cloud. Reference XenAppblog/stealthpuppy for automation principles * XenAppBlog – building kit * Stealthpuppy – hands off my gold build All very useful and well worth a look – but that is about deployment, and often requires an infrastrcure to deploy, granted you’ve coding to put in place All well and good but focus is often on just building the base image/environment from a window server viewpoint – possibly some automation for Citirx components – but when we consider the whole stack of components often there is more than configuration of just windows service components within a hybrid stack Moving to software defined networking; software defined storage, can LCM deliver a more complex environment; could it be used (say) to help customers/partners deploy “out of the box” to best practices – because the playbook/process/blueprint had been defined by the vendor? So our question was could Lifecycle management be used to deploy and manage a multi-vendor environment?
- Questions we wanted to answer/investigate What does LCM look like as a package What does it deliver from a Citrix technology viewpoint How can it help customers/partners get best time to value? Can vendors (like atlantis) integrate? Use it
- So in summary LCM is giving you the function to Design Capture requirements to deploy the service Specify how to manage based on service monitor Incorporate best practices Deploy – services to any hypervisor, private or public cloud Select desired environment Configure size, scale and redundancy Configure other input parameters Manage – monitor scale, heal and recover services Monitor services and operational task status Scale, geal recover Continue to evolve management process
- Windows are an important part in building impressive things but it isn’t just about Windows, and if we’re honest making a window is repetive and a bit dull. Great buildings are not just about Windows Lots of tools for deploying windows VMs – but wider context across platforms. Something that says its not just about windows VMs but software defined X it’s actually more about abstraction and the SOMEOTHER WORD THAN SAASIFICATION ??Do software defined datacentre slide, then replace with an abstract painting??? Software defined storage for example…
- Show big picture Discuss simple vs pooled volumes Discuss hyperscale Why simple volume selected for the demo (because there are so many hours in the day) Key – rest apis allow configuration; consideration is that this configuration could be extended
- Slide showing summary requirements; networking infrastructure and data flows Gateway is a server that communicates with Citrix Lifecycle Management and also has access to your environment. If your environment resides behind a firewall, you need a gateway to ensure Lifecycle Management can communicate with your environment over the Internet. You do not need a gateway if your environment is accessible over the Internet. To act as a gateway, a server must possess the following characteristics: The server must be able to communicate with the environment you want to use with Citrix Lifecycle Management The server must have access to the Internet through port 443 (HTTPS) The server must have the Citrix Lifecycle Management Agent installed The server must be designated as a gateway when you add your environment to Citrix Lifecycle Management Port Requirements: The Citrix Lifecycle Management agent requires access over port 443 (outbound HTTPS) across the Internet to the following domains: manage.citrix.com manage-disc.citrix.com manage-monlb.citrix.com manage-mon.citrix.com Communication between your server and Citrix Lifecycle Management occurs over port 443 (outbound HTTPS) only. Auto Install Citrix Lifecycle Management includes an auto-install function that automatically installs the agent on new and existing servers in your environment. On Linux, inbound access over port 22 (SSH) is required for agent auto-install. On Windows, inbound access over port 3389 (RDP) is required for agent auto-install. Once the agent is installed, you can shut down these ports (if required) as further communication between your servers and Citrix Lifecycle Management occurs over port 443 (outbound HTTPS) only. For more information, see the Install theCitrix Lifecycle Management agent section.
- Show initial deployment – skip sign up to the site Begin with download page – assume you’ve the correct download Show install on a windows VM as the “proxy” And then that’s *it* ??? Discuss comparison with alternative technologies
- This is *now* your first view – which has had some work since the first one Usefully you’ve a video tutorial but fundamentally You define your resource location – what hosts/envrionments do you want to inteact with? You define a blueprint. To be honest this is a GROSS oversimplication. A blue print is a set of instructions – scripts if you will, and user (or service) inputs / parameters that define the Creation of a service Scale out of that service Alerts of a service Operations Failover/back activities And teardown You *deploy* a blueprint to create the environment you want to manage.
- This isn’t a service to deploy to raw tin – there is an expectation that you have a core configuration of *something* - be it at least a hypervisor layer and at least one server to communicate with There is no “template management” – this isn’t a PVS replacement, the management of the OS is outside of scope of the current environment; there’d be an interesting juxtaposition there - to buid (say) a *template* deployment solution that you then build out on. Knowledge of unattended.xml and remplate creation is therefore key – personally AW had fun and games understanding how to unencrypt an encrypted password - link is on the page if you ever need that particular nugget of information. And “its 5 oc;lock somewhere” – the justification for a drink at any time of the day… while we really like the concept of blueprints - as our “Interesting graph” mentions that blueprint is created through a series of actions, the actions are scripts. Granted LCM is a multi-disciplne script engine – but someone, somewhere needs to be scripting/drinking… and here is where partners/vendors can add value.
- Demo#1 Deploy workspace and show that working Discuss empty Vmware environment Show the template we’ve already got… Expose blue print Launch blue print (show clock on the bottom to give indication of time passed) On deployment Review the VMs available Log on and see components installed. Discuss wider impact
- Deploy USX and show that working (simple hybrid volume) Discuss “empty” Vmware environment Show the template we’ve already got… Expose blue print Launch blue print (show clock on the bottom to give indication of time passed) On deployment Review the VMs available Log on and see components installed. Discuss wider impact
- operations
- Many different options; what moves LCM to the fore? “traditional” management tools great for on prem; but providing that offpremise cloud functionality Likewise, tools are available to manage a cloud service – but don#t extend to on-prem services Key will be blueprint functionality - almost a windows installer / msi package for functionality – provided by vendors – out of the box best practice Unsure of the “purchase” option Don’t *have* to use the wider workspace cloud functionality – but LCM is a key component of it.
- Use cases for Customer Could replace existing services, simplfy own environment - although likely long way off from replacing management tools that are already in place tomorrow VAR * to allow rapid consistent deployment of key components and then focus on customisation and new use case tecthnology Vendor * Ensure best practice / reliable – reduce complexity for partners/customers. * opportunity to test drive software and functions
- Next steps… Vision for the blueprint from Atlantis USX – Demo’d deployment into vsphere; xenserver – build on that We’ve hyperscale box – automated build of usx - but use LCM to deploy into that – extend workspace cloud onto boxes on prem (perhaps distributed virtual desktop/app delivery mechanism Sessions to visit Visit Atlantis booth – Visit Cloud Workspace Team Sign up? Share your experience on new user community But …what can we answer now in terms of questions.
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