Our customers will probably all switch to Citrix Universal Hybrid Multi Cloud soon. All of our customers are 100% on-premises environments with their own delivery controllers and no cloud connectors. Until now, all customers had a Citrix virtual apps Standard license and worked on a published desktop. Now with the switch from Standard to UHMC: What changes for me, what can and should I do? I would be happy if we could collect a few ideas about what I should definitely do for us (administratively) or for the customer on the UX side with the change of license. I have made my own little list and would be happy to receive additional ideas: • Citrix Workspace Environment Management • Citrix Director historical reporting and trend analysis • Citrix Director Premium (I know things change, but not in detail) • Possibility to replace Delivery Controllers with Cloud Connectors • Director App and desktop probing • Remote PC Access • Configuration logging (Studio) • Hybrid Multi Cloud possibility to bring public clouds into the mix • Multi-session Windows 10 and Windows 11 desktops on Azure (DaaS) • Autoscale (power management, restart schedules, vertical load balancing) • Autoscale Insights (Azure public Cloud only) • PVS (not relevant, as we use MCS) • (App Layering) - never used that one, we fully automate builds with MDT. • uberAgent What benefits am I missing?

Not 100% sure but I think you get the new uberAgent too

Interesting, yes, I read that, but forgot it in the list. Thank you! I did a PoC of uberAgent many many years ago. Back then I remember I had to install a separate App/DB server. I guess that hasn't changed?

No, you still need an app to show the data, like Splunk or ElasticSearch

Does there a free backend variant exist, or does each variant bring its own costs?

You can use free backend like Elasticsearch in free and open basic license. I know UberAgent won't have the dashboard built-in as it is with Splunk. I am planning to try it with Elasticsearch as I did also a PoC years ago.

Sorry, I don't understand: When I use (free) Elasticsearch, and there are no pre-made Dashboards, how do I see and interpret the data collected by the agent?

You have XenServer Premium 10,000 CPU socket coming for free and 999 NetScaler VPX instances and max 1000Gbps. Citrix EndPoint Management and Secure Private Access are listed but I think you need pay extra to use it

You must built the dashboard on your own

There are some kibana ones that work, but need a little modification to line up with the new values. I am working on that now, and seeing if I can create a custom dashboard that provides some of the splunk style views with elasticsearch.

There also is the NetScaler entitlement, End Point Management, and integration with Win365. https://www.citrix.com/buy/licensing/product.html

Session recording! One of my favorite things