Hey all,
I'm planning to upgrade my 17 server citrix farm from XP to Presentation Server 3.0.
Rather than upgrade each box and keep the existing farm, I plan to create an additional farm and "migrate" one server at a time from the old farm to the new farm. The farms will co-exist with each other on the same subnet. There are reasons for doing this that I do not wish to go into here.
As Licensing has totally changed with PS3, I'm wanting to know the following. Sharing Licenses in a Multi-Farm is supported by PS3 on the basis that all farms are running the same product release...I understand and appreciate that.
Does the XP farm communicate with the new PS3 licensing server? For instance, for the purpose of migration, could I run the maximum quantity of licenses concurrently on both farms? How would the XP farm even know that I'm using licenses on the new PS3 farm?
I'm aware that I can push and pull licenses from the mycitrix portal, however due to the amount of connections and the method I wish to migrate from XP to PS3, this option will not suffice. I would need the maximum amount of licenses running concurently on both farms to meet my migration process. This is because I have endusers who will at some stage require apps from different farms - I only want them to use one license, not two.
On the [very off chance], has anyone attempted this or help me out?
Appreciated.
aatari
I'm planning to upgrade my 17 server citrix farm from XP to Presentation Server 3.0.
Rather than upgrade each box and keep the existing farm, I plan to create an additional farm and "migrate" one server at a time from the old farm to the new farm. The farms will co-exist with each other on the same subnet. There are reasons for doing this that I do not wish to go into here.
As Licensing has totally changed with PS3, I'm wanting to know the following. Sharing Licenses in a Multi-Farm is supported by PS3 on the basis that all farms are running the same product release...I understand and appreciate that.
Does the XP farm communicate with the new PS3 licensing server? For instance, for the purpose of migration, could I run the maximum quantity of licenses concurrently on both farms? How would the XP farm even know that I'm using licenses on the new PS3 farm?
I'm aware that I can push and pull licenses from the mycitrix portal, however due to the amount of connections and the method I wish to migrate from XP to PS3, this option will not suffice. I would need the maximum amount of licenses running concurently on both farms to meet my migration process. This is because I have endusers who will at some stage require apps from different farms - I only want them to use one license, not two.
On the [very off chance], has anyone attempted this or help me out?
Appreciated.
aatari