Horizon Migration Tool

Summary

Horizon Migration Tool helps you migrate from Citrix XenDesktop and Xen App to Horizon 7.

This tool supports following scenarios:

Migration from XenDesktop 7.6 and above to Horizon 7.2
Migration from XenApp 7.6 and above/6.0/6.5/5.0 to Horizon 7.2

The GUI wizard-based tool helps:

Desktop Migration:

Locate different pool based on Citrix pool type
Manage desktop agents
Create pools according to different provision technologies (manual, linked clone, instant clone)

Application Migration:

Validate the View agent status on RDS hosts (from View connection server, and XenApp server)
Create farms
Validate application availability on RDS hosts
Migrate application/desktop to one or multiple farms (new or existing)
Migrate entitlements to new or existing applications/desktops. Combination of application entitlements are supported
Check environment
Identify incompatible features and configuration

Requirements

XenDesktop 7.6 or above
XenApp 7.6 or above, 6.5, 6.0, or 5.0
Horizon 7.2
Horizon Cloud 16.11.0 or 17.1.0

The following software are required:

vSphere 6.0 Update 1 or later is required for Horizon instant clone
.NET Framework 2.0(for Windows 2008)
.NET Framework 3.5(for Windows 2012)
JRE8 or above
Powershell (Required by migration of XenDesktop 7.6 or above, XenApp7.6 or above/6.5/6.0. By default already installed on system with XenDesktop 7.6 or above, XenApp7.6 or above/6.5/6.0)

Instructions

Copy this Horizon Migration Tool to one Citrix Delivery Controller
Run the tool by launching the HorizonMigrationTool.exe
Follow the wizard

For more details, refer to the demo video on the Video tab, or user guide document.

Changelog

Version 3.0.2

Updated the binary package and the document accordingly

Version 3.0.1

Fixed issue: add missed XenAppDumper.exe for XenApp 5.0

Version 3.0.0

Supports Citirx to Horizon 7.2 migration
Added Citrix PVS Desktop pool migration to Horizon 7.2
Added Citrix Dedicate MCS Desktop Pool migraiton to Horizon 7.2 as manual pool, linked-clone pool or instant clone pool
Fixed Bug: XenApp applications with customerized path includes spaces will migrate properly.

Version 2.3.0

Add migration from XenApp 7.6 and above to Horizon 7 and Horizon 7.1
Add migration from XenDesktop 7.6 and above to Horizon 7 and Horizon 7.1
Add migration from XenDesktop 7.6 and above to Horizon Cloud 16.1 1.0and 17.1.0

Desktop pool type supported:

Citrix:

Manual pool
Random machine creation service pool

Horizon 7:

Manual pool
Automated linked clone pool
Automated instant clone pool

Version 1.2.3

Spaces in the path of the migration tool are now possible.
Removed the inaccurate previous warning message.
Fixed the bug that occurred when a report was generated.

Version 1.2.2

Changed all Horizon 6 to Horizon 6.2.2 and 7 in the document
Changed all related date to current date in the document
Changed all jre7 or above to jre8 and above in the document
Updated the tool version from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2

Version 1.2.1

Generate a summary report after migration. The report will be located in ./x2v_log/Summary.html

Updated to 1.2.0

Now supports Horizon 6.2.2 and Horizon 7

Contributors

Luke Yue

Nan Wang

Shengbo Teng

Enterprise Desktop ALUMNUS

Wen Wang

End User Computing

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