XenApp® 7.5 versus previous versions
Many XenApp administrators who worked with previous versions of XenApp were a bit confused when Citrix decided to adopt the same FlexCast Management Architecture that was introduced in XenDesktop 7 for XenApp 7.5.
In the following table, I have listed the most common functional elements and their corresponding elements (sometimes, they are not exact equivalents) in the newer version:
XenApp 6.0 |
XenApp 7.5 |
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Independent Management Architecture (IMA) |
FlexCast Management Architecture (FMA) |
Farm |
Delivery Site (or just "Site") |
Worker group |
Session Machine Catalog plus Delivery Group |
Session-host server |
Worker with virtual delivery agent |
Zone and data collector |
Delivery Controller |
Delivery Services Console |
Citrix Studio and Citrix Director |
Publishing applications |
Delivering application |
Datastore |
SQL Server database |
Load evaluator |
Load Management Policy |