1. Citrix Workflow Studio
Delivering Operational Efficiency across the Delivery Center
Nikolay Shadrin
Systems Engineer

2. What is Workflow Studio?

3. TM
Citrix Delivery Center
Workflow Studio
XenDesktop XenApp XenServer
NetScaler
Users Apps
“Transforming Datacenters into Delivery Centers”
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4. “80% of unplanned downtime is due to „people failures‟”
“eight out of ten dollars that companies spend on IT is „dead money‟”
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6. Workflow Studio is about automation
Citrix Workflow Studio
App UI Logic Data
Users Apps
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7. Workflow Studio Technology

8. Workflow Foundation and PowerShell
Workflow Foundation
Visual Designer
Base Activity Library
Runtime Engine
Runtime Services
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9. Technology Stack Workflow
Activity Libraries
Product APIs
PowerShell WMI VBScript Web Services
Products
XenDesktop XenApp XenServer NetScaler 3rd Party
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10. Designer
Designer
Activity Panel Configuration Panel
Results
Panel
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11. Solutions

12. “average utilization of servers is less than 15%”
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14. Power Management
• Monitor XenApp Load
• Modify Load Balancing Rules
• Monitor XenServer VM Usage
• Automatically Migrate VMs
• Start / Shutdown Physical Servers
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15. User Provisioning
• Add users/groups to Active Directory
• Remove users/groups from AD
• Configure Group Policy
• Generate passwords
• Integrate with applications
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16. Dynamic Resource Allocation
• Provision additional servers
• Start / Stop VMs
• Copy files
• De-Provision / Re-Provision servers
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17. Disaster Recovery
• Detect network or system failures
• Detect application failures
• Reconfigure networking
• Automated response
• Automated Notification
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18. Product Automation
• Implementing Best Practices
• Service Resiliency
• Fixing the 'little things'
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19. Use Cases
On-Demand Automation Schedule-based Automation Event-driven Automation
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20. Extensibility

21. Extending Workflow Studio
Rich support for existing technologies
• Native support for PowerShell, WMI, Windows Script
Support for Workflow Templates
Ability to extend integration points
• Workflow Studio UI will expose the ability to build custom activities
• New activity libraries can be developed and “snapped in” asynchronously
• Citrix developed
• 3rd party developed
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22. Availability
Workflow Studio 1.0 available now
for all customers current on Subscription
for All Editions except Express Edition
XenDesktop XenApp Essentials
NetScaler
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