Ascend Technology Solutions

Ascend Technology Solutions


VMware or Citrix: End User Compute

Managed Service Offering:


This proactive service will provide a health check and quarterly maintenance review of your VMware Horizon and Unified Access Gateway or Citrix Apps and Desktops and ADC (NetScaler) environments.  


Initial Engagement: (1st Quarter)


- Full Health check and Documentation of the environment

o Review VMware Horizon / Citrix Apps and Desktops current patch level

o Review VMware Horizon / Citrix Apps and Desktops Administrators

o Review VMware Horizon / Citrix Apps and Desktops Policies

o Review Citrix User Profile Management / VMware User Environment Manager configuration

o Review Active Directory Group Policies for inconsistencies and Best Practice

o Validate Citrix SQL Database configuration, consistency, and backups

o Validate VMware Desktop Pools / Citrix Site, Machine Catalog, and Delivery Group consistency

o Validate VMware Composer / Citrix Machine Creation Services Master Images and Backups

o Validate Citrix Provisioning Services vDisk Store, and Backups

o Review historical statistics for the previous month, document any findings that fall outside of the typical performance thresholds

o Validate License server, and current SA, or Software Maintenance

o Validate Citrix StoreFront / Horizon Connection Server configuration and patch level

o Validate NetScaler / Unified Access Gateway configuration, firmware version, and general health

o Review VMware / Citrix Infrastructure Event Logs

o Review common EUC security vulnerabilities, and provide remediation recommendations


- Generate report of recommended updates, optimizations, and enhancements found during Health check

- Up to 4 hours of Health Check issue remediation included


Quarterly Review: (Following 3 Quarters)


- Basic Health check of the environment

- Up to 4 Hours per Quarter of Health Check issue remediation included


Quarterly Review and Updates: (Following 3 Quarters)


- Basic Health check of the environment

- Up to 4 Hours per Quarter of Health Check issue remediation included

- Apply current stable VMware / Citrix Cumulative Update or Current Release Version

- Apply current stable Unified Access Gateway / NetScaler Firmware updates


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