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Xenapp 6 Migration

We are in plan to upgrade our citrix environment from 4.5 version to Xenapp 6. Need help to create a project plan - Capacity Planning - Licensing Cost - timeline - General risks involved in upgradation.

Current Environment : All Citrix servers are Windows 2003 Servers, Citrix Xenapp 5 Version. We using platinum licensing.

Our goal to move our environment to Xenapp 6 and Windows 2008 R2 operating system.
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Currently we are using Xenapp 5 with platinum license. How about client need, Should they need to use any new version client or any specific version Xenapp 6 support. How about Datastore end?
Since XenAPp 6 will be a new farm, you will need a new data store.  Do not even think about putting XA6 in your XA5 data store or you will corrupt it and lose your XA5 farm.

If you are using client 11.x or higher, you should have no issues with your end users.
Is there are nay known general risks in xenapp 6? Carl can you help me to get rough copy of project plan to implement XenApp 6.

Also how about implementing Xenapp 6.5 instead of Xenapp 6? Because our management asked to upgrade to latest version of Citrix, I am thinking to go with Xenapp 6 & Xenapp 6.5.
I would just go with XA6.5 myself.  Really nice new features.

Rough project plan is in my 1st response.  You can keep your production XA5 farm up and going while you implment and test XA6.5.  When you are ready to start testing, add the XA6.5 farm to the web interface.  The XA6.5 migration wizard is much better than the XA6 version.
What are the major benefits in Xenapp 6.5 when comparing to Xenapp 6? How about license end?
If your SA is current or not, no difference in XA6 or XA6.5.

You will have to look at all the new features and see if any apply to your environment:

http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/xenapp65-w2k8/xenapp65-about.html
SA means Carl? General risks involved in up gradation Xenapp 6.5?
SOftware Assurance or something like that.  It means you are entitled to whatever the most current product is as long as your SA is current.  You can look in the citrix license console for that info.

I have not seen any risks other than the usual make sure your apps work in Server 2008 R2 or Server 2008 R2 SP1.
Most of our applications are streamed applications and only few applications are need to be tested, Few apps are already running in 2004 64 bit server Carl, Will be there any impact for streamed applications?
Sorry its 2003 64bit Server not 2004 Server*
Should affect it but that is why you should test! :)
Carl could you please help me to get evaluvation copy of Xenapp 6 & Xenapp6.5 for Win 2008 R2. I will start implementing in test server by tomorrow, as we are running short of time.
Create a free account on MyCitrix.com and you should be able to download an evaluation copy and the eval licenses.
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