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Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service
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Introduction
Site overview
Components and services managed by Citrix
Management interfaces
Components and technologies managed by the customer
Objects you configure to deliver desktops and applications
Citrix Managed Azure
Delivering applications and desktops to users
Service Level Agreement
More information
Get started
Introduction
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops provides virtualization solutions that give IT control of virtual machines, applications, and security
while providing anywhere access for any device. End users can use applications and desktops independently of the device’s
operating system and interface.
Using the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service, you can deliver secure virtual apps and desktops to any device, leaving most of
the installation, setup, and upgrades to Citrix. You maintain complete control over applications, policies, and users while delivering
the best user experience on any device.
The service allows you to manage on-premises data center and public cloud workloads together in a hybrid deployment. You can
connect to public clouds Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud, plus on-premises hypervisors such as
Citrix Hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VMware vSphere. The hybrid, multi-cloud approach gives you the flexibility to deploy
different applications in different resource locations worldwide.
The service offers several ways to deliver apps and desktops.
Delivery methods describes the primary ways, with use-cases and pros/cons.
Delivery models lists more choices, and also offers VDI model comparisons.
Citrix Managed Azure further simplifies the deployment of virtual apps and desktops. With Citrix Managed Azure, Citrix also
manages the hosting of Azure workloads.
Learn more about the advantages of using this service.
Site overview
The following graphic shows the services and components that Citrix administrators work with in a Citrix Virtual Apps and
Desktops service production deployment (also known as a site).
As shown in the graphic, Citrix manages the user access and management services and components in Citrix Cloud. The
applications and desktops that you deliver to users reside on machines in one or more resource locations. In a Citrix Virtual Apps
and Desktops service deployment, a resource location contains components from the access layer and resource layers. Each
resource location is considered a zone.
If you recently migrated from on-premises Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, you’ll see that the service eliminates most of the
component setup work required in an on-premises deployment.
Management interfaces
From the Manage tab of the service, you can select the following interfaces.
Full Configuration
From the Manage > Full Configuration interface, you can:
Create and manage connections to hosts.
Create and manage catalogs of machines that contain apps and desktops you deliver to your users.
Create and manage delivery groups (and optionally, application groups.
Create and manage Citrix policies that affect the use and behavior of HDX technologies and features, plus site-level
management. This includes policy settings for sessions, adaptive transport, devices, graphics, multimedia, content redirection,
and VDAs.
Customize delegated administration to create role-based administrators who have specific scopes of authority.
Manage the Autoscale feature to proactively power manage machines that deliver apps and desktops.
Load balance machines
Run health checks on your VDAs to identify potential issues and fix suggestions.
Display configuration log content to see when configuration changes and other administrative activities occurred, and who
initiated them.
Quick Deploy
From the Manage > Quick Deploy interface, you can easily deploy and manage Microsoft Azure workloads that use either a Citrix
Managed Azure subscription or your own Azure subscription. For more information, see Quick Deploy and Citrix Managed Azure.
From Quick Deploy, you can:
Create and manage catalogs.
Create and customize images, either from various Citrix prepared images, or from images you import from your Azure
subscription.
For more information, see Quick Deploy.
Environment Management
From the Environment Management interface, you can use intelligent resource management and Profile Management
technologies to deliver the best possible performance, desktop logon, and application response times. For more information, see
Workspace Environment Management.
Limitations
The calculation of this Service Level Goal will not include loss of availability from the following causes:
Customer failure to follow configuration requirements for the Service documented in the product documentation on
https://docs.citrix.com.
Caused by any component not managed by Citrix including, but not limited to, customer controlled physical and virtual
machines, customer installed and maintained operating systems, customer installed and controlled networking equipment or
other hardware; customer defined and controlled security settings, group policies and other configuration policies; public cloud
provider failures, Internet Service Provider failures or other external to Citrix control.
Service disruption due to reasons beyond Citrix control, including natural disaster, war or acts of terrorism, government action.
More information
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service diagrams
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service Reference Architecture and Deployment Methods
Technical security overview
Network ports
Third-party notices
System requirements
Features
An introduction to HDX technologies, plus details about Devices, Graphics, and Multimedia.
Remote PC Access: Allow users to log on remotely from anywhere to a physical PC in the office. You can configure Remote PC
Access from Full Configuration or Quick Deploy.
Publish content: Publish an application that is simply a URL or UNC path to a resource.
Server VDI: Deliver a desktop from a server operating system for a single user.
For the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Standard for Azure service, see its dedicated product documentation.
To learn about feature availability in the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops products and editions, see the Citrix Virtual Apps and
Desktops feature matrix.
The Citrix Cloud Learning Series offers education course to get you up and running with Citrix Cloud and its services. You can
sequentially view all of the modules, from introductions through planning and building services. You can also choose individual
modules or task-specific segments within a module. See Cloud Learning Series.
Get started
To learn how to set up your deployment, start with Plan and build a deployment. That summary guides you through the major steps
in the process, and provides links to more information and detailed procedures.
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