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VMware has released a tool to migrate apps made virtual and portable by Citrix's XenApp into its own Horizon View product. The tool is a little bit naughty because VMware has released it as a “Fling” - a term Virtzilla applies to code from its labs that consist of “Apps and tools built by our engineers that are intended to be …

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  1. Neil Spellings

    I'm confused. You start the article talking about a XenApp migration tool. Then go on about migrating users from VDI and how limited the VDI marketplace is.

    XenApp and VDI are two difference things. Whilst I agree that VDI has a limited penetration in many large companies, XenApp is a different kettle of fish and is probably used in virtually every FTSE100 in some way or other (remote working, application delivery etc).

    It's the XenApp not VDI customers that VMware are trying to poach. VMware used to be a VDI-only player but with their latest Horizon suite they want a slice of the lucrative application delivery/presentation market that Citrix has had to themselves for years.

    Please don't make the mistake using XenApp and VDI interchangeably, they most certainly aren't the same.

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    1. TonyJ
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      To be fair, it's a confusing area. I assumed they meant XenDesktop - Citrix' equivalent of Horizon (previously View) until the tool name itself contained XenApp.

      You can published or stream XenApp apps into XenDesktop so maybe this is the bit they're going after?

      And let's not forget that Citrix dropped (mostly) the XenApp name, integrating the product into XenDesktop and then subsequently re-introduced the XenApp name.

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  2. markewert

    The XenApp2Horizon tool was developed to help simplify migrations from Citrix XenApp to the new hosted application capability in VMware Horizon 6. It automates migrating the configuration settings XenApp uses to publish applications and desktop sessions along with the users and groups entitled to access them into the Horizon View configuration. Users would then be able to access their applications and shared desktops via the VMware Workspace Portal and Horizon View client using the PCoIP protocol.

    If you need to migrate virtual desktops from XenDesktop to Horizon View we have other resources and guidance that can help.

    Mark Ewert, VMware Technical Marketing

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