Making Your Citrix Profile Management Share Highly Available
Citrix News, Monday, January 22nd, 2024
When deploying a Citrix environment, customers often ask about the best way to provide high availability (HA) for their profiles. This blog post will discuss the most common options with their pros & cons so you can make this critical portion of your environment more resilient.
PaaS and hardware-based solutions
For public cloud deployments, the leading practice is to use the vendor's file server Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. Azure has Azure Files; AWS has FSx; and Google Cloud Platform has third party options. In addition to cloud specific offerings, NetApp PaaS offerings are also available for all three vendors. These solutions offer high availability, reduced management overhead, and increased scalability. Ensure the chosen solution supports SMB protocol (so it can be accessed by Windows VDAs), NTFS permissions (so that authenticated users can access their files), and that it can scale to the number of concurrent connections that you require.