[THIN] Re: MetaFrame XP upgrade to Presentation Server
- From: <DMelczer@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 07:19:39 -0400
For us, the migration really didn't make all that much sense as the
servers that would need to be migrated are being decommissioned because
they are end of life and will shortly not be supported as a hardware
platform. Since this "upgrade" is necessitating a complete rebuild, we
just decided to go with PS4 in a brand new farm.
The new farm has already been created and installed, and things are
working very well. Thanks to all those that responded!
-Dave Melczer
dmelczer@xxxxxxxx
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of BRUTON, Malcolm, FM
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 5:27 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: MetaFrame XP upgrade to Presentation Server
Again I concur
Citrix apparently supports running any version of XP and MPS3
and PS4 in the same farm. Personally I think that not the best idea in
the world but they do support it. I would migrate all servers over a
short period of time to the same version.
Malcolm
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Stalhood
Sent: 09 June 2005 00:27
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: MetaFrame XP upgrade to Presentation Server
Actually, that's not true. I've mixed PS 3.0 and PS 4.0 in
several farms now with no issue. This really is no different than
previous upgrades and if you find a Citrix support person that has
thought this through he or she will tell you the same thing. This all
started with an incorrectly written readme. The readme has now been
updated but it is still a little misleading:
MetaFrame Service Pack 2005.4 Required on Servers Running
MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0
Citrix supports mixing servers running MetaFrame Presentation
Server 3.0 and 4.0 in the same farm. Citrix recommends that you update
your servers running MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 to Service Pack
2005.04. If all servers in the farm cannot be updated with the service
pack, update the data collector and the farm metric server, in that
order. [#109701]
http://support.citrix.com/kb/entry.jspa?entryID=6211&categoryID=619
It makes absolutely no sense to update all servers to 2005.04
and not enable PS 4.0 if you already have the licenses since they are
the same binaries. What makes an admin decide to install 2005.04 but not
PS 4.0 since they are the same thing? Like I said, it is a poorly
written readme.
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DMelczer@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 10:56 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: MetaFrame XP upgrade to Presentation Server
Thanks for the response, Chad...this was the way we were leaning
and your confirmation puts it over the top...and I did some additional
research, and multiple farms can be accessed through the old NFuse
interface.
-Dave Melczer
dmelczer@xxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Schneider, Chad M
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 11:44 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: MetaFrame XP upgrade to Presentation
Server
PS 4.0, should not co-exist with even ps 3.0, unless it
has the SP on it, which basically makes 3.0 into 4.0, without the
features.
I would, and am, creating a new farm for PS 4.0.
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DMelczer@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 10:18 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] MetaFrame XP upgrade to Presentation
Server
Been away for a while due to changing responsibilities,
but recently I have been tasked with taking an existing Windows 2000, MF
XP 1.0 FR2 server farm and upgrading everything to new boxes, Windows
2003, and Citrix Presentation Manager 4.0 (the latest and greatest
available).
From what I have been reading, if I want to drop the new
PM 4.0 servers into the existing farm, I would need to upgrade the
existing XP servers to FR3 first. Is this recommended, or would it be
better to create a new datastore and a new farm?
The big problem here comes in that whatever solution is
selected, the machines would have to be available through our current
NFuse 1.1 interface (running an old copy of Columbia for the "enhanced"
functionality). Would our current secure gateway implementation be able
to access multiple farms?
Thanks in advance for any insight anyone can provide.
-Dave Melczer
dmelczer@xxxxxxxx
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