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Perforce Standardisation at Citrix Coping with change in a growing global organisation

Lee Leggett Software Engineer

Jason Leonard Staff Software

Engineer

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Citrix

§  Market leading cloud, collaboration & virtualisation technologies

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Where are we?

30  Perforce  Instances  5  Different  Physical  Servers  

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User Problems

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Admin Problems

•  24/7  Support   •  Disparate  Systems  

•  Security   •  No  central  control  

•  Minimise  Bme  investment   •  Part  Bme  administrators  

•  Disaster  Recovery  

•  High  Availability  

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AdministraBon  

Access   Delivery  

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AdministraBon  

Access   Delivery  

AdministraBon  

Access   Delivery  

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Mesh Network

HOSTNAME:PORT  

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Mesh Network

PerforceA:  1666  

PerforceB:  2666  1666  

PerforceA:  2666  

PerforceB:  1666  

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Mesh Network

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Mesh Network

•  Benefits •  Easy to remember •  Hidden Complexity •  Increased Performance

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AdministraBon  

Access   Delivery  Access   Delivery  

AdministraBon  

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Syncing Code

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Syncing Tool

>sync  xendesktop_main  

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Syncing Tool

•  Benefits •  Hidden complexity •  Quick build environment •  Configurable by developers •  Increased build stability

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AdministraBon  AdministraBon  

Delivery  Access   Delivery  Access  

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Perforce Standard Environment

2011.2  

2010.2  

2012.2  

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Demo

Please watch our recorded demo of the Perforce Standard Environment

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Admin Problems

•  Disparate  Systems  

•  No  central  control  

•  Part  Bme  administrators  

PSE Benefits

•  24/7  Support  

•  Increased  Security  

•  Minimise  Time  Investment  

•  High  Availability  

•  Disaster  Recovery  

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AdministraBon  

Delivery  Access  

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The Future for our users

•  One place for everything •  Reduce one master instance

•  24x7 uptime •  Use of offline checkpoints •  Warm or Hot standby servers

•  Faster Experience •  Ensuring hardware is current •  Use of Smart proxies

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The Future for our administrators

•  Simplified user management •  Replicated Authorisation

•  Better usage/error statistics •  Log parsing on instances

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Citrix Vision of Perforce

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Questions?

Please read the whitepaper

Lee Leggett: lee.leggett@citrix.com @leeleggett86 Jason Leonard: jason.leonard@citrix.com