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Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktop 7 2103

H1 of 2021 is almost done and spring is around the corner. Citrix have released a new version of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop 7 2103. So its time to upgrade your environment before Spring, a good time to clean up and update your environment and start good in Spring :O).

Release 7 2103 is now available for download, March, 2021.

Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktop 7 2103 is a CR release. Read more about CR here

Citrix Virtual Apps (former name: XenApp) Citrix Virtual Desktop (former name: XenDesktop)

Citrix raises the bar of for user experience and new product release of following technologies:

Director 2103
Virtual Delivery Agents 2103 for ServerOS and ClientOS
Virtual Delivery Agent 2103 for Linux
Citrix Federated Authentication Service 2103
Profile Management 2103
Workspace Environment Management 2103
Session Recording 2103
Applayering 2102
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop Service
Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop Standard for Azure
Citrix Cloud Health Check
Workspace App 2103 for Windows
Workspace App 2103 for Windows (Store)
Workspace App 2103 for Linux
Workspace App 2103 for Chrome
Workspace App 2103 for Android
Workspace App 2103 for MacOS
Workspace App 2103 for HTML5
Workspace App 2103 for ChromeOS

Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktop 7 1903 released

Citrix have released a new version of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop 7 1903 which is now available for download.

Citrix Virtual Apps (former name: XenApp) Citrix Virtual Desktop (former name: XenDesktop)

Microsoft Windows Server 2019 & Windows 10 1809 is supported with this release.

Another great thing is that now “infrastructure components for Citrix” can be installed on Microsoft Windows ServerCore, which means a minimum OS and only install what is required, no GUI just raw performance, something which a lot of service providers, customers are going to like. This is important for scalability and automation and having best TCO running a Citrix infrastructure. Citrix director & delivery controller now works and is supported on ServerCore (WS2012r2/WS2016/WS2019).

Citrix raises the bar of for user experience and new product release of following technologies:

Director 1903
Virtual Delivery Agents 1903 for ServerOS and ClientOS
Virtual Delivery Agents 1903 for Desktop OS Core Services
Virtual Delivery Agent 1903 for Linux
Provisioning 1903
Storefront 1903
Session Recording 1903
App Layering 1903
Workspace App 1903 for Windows
Workspace App 1903 for Mac
Workspace App 1903 for Linux
Workspace App 1903 for Chrome
Workspace App 1903.1 for Android
Workspace App 1903 for iOS
Workspace App 1903 for Windows Store

NVIDIA vGPU 6.3

Hi All

Its time to update your NVIDIA TESLA M6, M10, M60, P4, P6, P40, P100, V100 with vGPU 6.3

The brand “GRID” is now vGPU (Virtual GPU Software), in my previously articles I wrote GRID and now its branded vGPU.

NVIDIA have released new drivers for NVIDIA vGPU 6.3 for October 2018.

NVIDIA vGPU 6.3 now support VMware Horizon 7.6 and Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktop 7 1808 (aka XenApp/XenDesktop) + Citrix Hypervisor (aka XenServer) 7.6

Important:

NVIDIA vGPU 6.3 is supported with VMware Horizon 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, 7.3, 7.2, 7.1, 7.0, 6.2
NVIDIA vGPU 6.3 is only supported with Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops (aka XenDesktop) 7.15, 7.17, 7.18, 7 1808 in HDX 3D Pro mode
If you are a customer using XenServer 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 its no longer supported with NVIDIA vGPU 6.3 and should plan upgrading to XenServer 7.5 or 7.6.
Customers using Citrix XenServer 7.0, 7.1 is supported with NVIDIA vGPU 6.0
Customer using Citrix XenServer 7.2, 7.3 is supported with NVIDIA vGPU 6.0 & 6.1
Customer using Citrix XenServer 7.4 is supported with NVIDIA vGPU 6.0 & 6.1 & 6.2
Customers using Citrix XenServer 7.5 is supported with NVIDIA vGPU 6.2

This release includes the following software:

NVIDIA vGPU Manager version 390.94 for the Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere
NVIDIA Windows driver version 392.05
NVIDIA Linux driver version 390.96