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$ soultec get solution/omnissa/citrix-takeout -o yaml$ soultec get solution/omnissa/citrix-takeout -o json$ soultec get solution/omnissa/citrix-takeout -o toml$ soultec get solution/omnissa/citrix-takeout -o xml$ python3 omnissa/citrix-takeout.pyPS> ./omnissa/citrix-takeout.ps1$ go run omnissa/citrix-takeout.go$ node omnissa/citrix-takeout.js

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What changed

body: | Citrix on vSphere used to be affordable because of one licence: vSphere for Desktops. It carried vCenter Server and vSphere Enterprise Plus, it was priced per user, and the Citrix licences were bought on top of it. Broadcom retired it. To keep running the platform you now buy vSphere Foundation or VMware Cloud Foundation, both per core and both by subscription. For a desktop estate on the same hypervisor, counting per core means a significant cost increase. - heading:

The third option

body: | Omnissa's Horizon editions include vSphere Foundation. Replace Citrix with Horizon and the hypervisor, vCenter and vSAN come under the same licence. Whether that comes out cheaper depends on how many users you have and on when the Citrix contract ends. - heading:

The proof of concept build

body: | An Omnissa Connection Server, attached to the vCenter and the Active Directory you already run. A Windows 11 master VM. An RDSH server if you publish applications rather than desktops. A Unified Access Gateway for access from outside. An App Volumes server to assign the applications. The proof of concept tests the licence model and the migration plan. - heading:

How it runs

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Solution · Omnissa

Citrix Takeout

Broadcom retired the cheap hypervisor for desktops. Moving from Citrix to Horizon gets you vSphere Foundation with the Horizon licence.

Omnissa Platinum Partner

Topics Migration 2.82 Virtualization 1.42 Modern Workplace 1.69

Vendors Omnissa 1.99 VMware 0.98

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03Capabilities

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photograph wantedA Horizon or Workspace ONE session in use: a virtual desktop on a real screen, or a thin client on a real desk

What changed

Citrix on vSphere used to be affordable because of one licence: vSphere for Desktops. It carried vCenter Server and vSphere Enterprise Plus, it was priced per user, and the Citrix licences were bought on top of it.

Broadcom retired it. To keep running the platform you now buy vSphere Foundation or VMware Cloud Foundation, both per core and both by subscription. For a desktop estate on the same hypervisor, counting per core means a significant cost increase.

The third option

Omnissa’s Horizon editions include vSphere Foundation. Replace Citrix with Horizon and the hypervisor, vCenter and vSAN come under the same licence.

Whether that comes out cheaper depends on how many users you have and on when the Citrix contract ends.

The proof of concept build

An Omnissa Connection Server, attached to the vCenter and the Active Directory you already run. A Windows 11 master VM. An RDSH server if you publish applications rather than desktops. A Unified Access Gateway for access from outside. An App Volumes server to assign the applications.

The proof of concept tests the licence model and the migration plan.

How it runs

Collect the licence information, produce a pre-calculation, and put the optimisation and a migration scenario in front of you before anything is installed. Then the Horizon design as a replacement for the Citrix platform, then the proof of concept, then a migration concept, then the migration, then your acceptance.

You can stop before the proof of concept.

What we do with it

Draft, unreviewed

Draft, not yet reviewed. We start with the licence arithmetic. What has to be shown is the number at the bottom of the renewal, and that needs your current Citrix and VMware contracts on the table first.

This paragraph is a draft and nobody at soulTec has confirmed it yet. Everything above it describes the product and is checkable against the vendor.

Posts about it

soulTec reaches the highest Omnissa partner status

1 Apr 2025

We have reached Platinum, the highest partner status in the newly introduced Omnissa partner programme.

Modern Workplace 1.69 Virtualization 1.42

An overview of Omnissa Horizon for Citrix customers

31 Jan 2025

A guide for Citrix administrators who want to understand how Horizon is put together, and how its components map onto a Citrix environment.

Modern Workplace 1.69 Virtualization 1.42

Leaving Citrix behind, with Omnissa Horizon and soulTec

24 Jan 2025

Wondering how to move off your existing Citrix environment without interrupting operations? More and more of our customers are looking at it because Citrix keeps getting more expensive.

Modern Workplace 1.69 Virtualization 1.42

Securing the Horizon connection – part 2

11 Dec 2024

Part 1 covered how locked.properties secures the connection between Horizon Connection Servers and clients, mainly through balancedHost. There are cases where that causes trouble.

Modern Workplace 1.69 Virtualization 1.42

Unrecognized requests in the Horizon Console XML API log

14 Sep 2024

The Horizon Console dashboard shows a warning about unrecognized requests on the XML API protocol connection. Usually these have no direct effect on user sessions.

Modern Workplace 1.69 Virtualization 1.42

NVIDIA L40s: Horizon cannot provision desktop pools with vGPU profiles

17 Jul 2024

A customer recently bought several NVIDIA L40s cards to extend their Horizon environment. Provisioning failed for every desktop pool using an L40s vGPU profile.

Modern Workplace 1.69 Virtualization 1.42