XenApp and F5 LTM Config Question

If looking at this from a cost perspective, attempting to go with the Citrix Netscaler/AGEE solution is just as expensive if not more so when you figure all of the licensing and administrative overhead. Your netscaler device will have to be licensed at the platinum level for all of the features to be available and even then, you have to maintain separate pnagent and WI sites that would use STA servers. BTW, the STA servers are not HA, if one goes down, all the users that had their sessions authenticated by that STA will be dropped and have to re-enter the system. Using the ICA Proxy provided within F5 APM, you do not need additional pnagent sites nor WI sites, and the the session data for connections is HA, so should one APM die off, your users will not experience a horrible time trying to get back in. Should you really need to do end point inspection, then we have that built into our product with check boxes rather than having to build distinct regular expressions per platform and setting.

Hopefully this helps. Otherwise your clients will have to establish a vpn connection and then launch the applications.

Regards,

CarlB