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Virtualisation (Citrix) and QlikView

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Dec 22, 2020 8:25:53 AM

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Sonja_Bauernfeind

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Nov 25, 2012 2:00:17 AM

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This document is an overview of how QlikView behave with Virtualisation (Citrix)

SERVER VIRTUALISATION
The QlikView technical requirements specifications assume a non-virtualised environment. Server Virtualisation is recognised as a mechanism for assisting Disaster Recovery and for dynamically sizing the environment, but this will always degrade performance of the QlikView software. The impact of virtualisation will be most noticeable to End Users when the QlikView Server is implemented in a Virtual Machine because of the extensive RAM & CPU that the QlikView Server may require, and likely competition with other VMs using those resources. The most common Server Virtualisation software appears to be VMware. QlikTech recommends that Memory Ballooning drivers are disabled in the Guest Operating System (Virtual Machine (VM)) and that the VM is assigned dedicated Resource Pool (CPU, RAM) that are not shared with other VMs. QlikView Support are clear in the statement  that VMware is a recognised and supported hardware abstraction layer but that some problems may require a customer to recreate their system in a non-virtualised environment.
 
DESKTOP VIRTUALISATION
Desktop Virtualisation is an attractive deployment mechanism for some large organisations to centralise administration of User Applications and the hardware resources they may require for operation. The most common Desktop Virtualisation software appears to be Citrix XenApp (formerly known as Citrix Presentation Server or Citrix Metaframe Server).
 
QLIKVIEW PLUGIN CLIENT
The QlikView ActiveX Plugin client for Internet Explorer may be easier to deploy in a Desktop Virtualisation environment than distributing software to many geographically dispersed users and computers, however QlikTech recommends use of the AJAX client for WAN deployments. All Web Users consume a QlikView Client Access Licence (CAL) when interacting with a QlikView document, regardless of which client they choose to use (Plugin, AJAX, etc). QlikTech does not anticipate there being any Licence Management issues or substantial Resource Utilisation concerns caused by use of the QlikView Plugin or Browser clients within a Desktop Virtualisation environment.
 
QLIKVIEW DESKTOP
Development of a QlikView document is performed using QlikView Desktop and can require substantial RAM and Disk IO. This product requires a Licence to enable a developer to share QVW files with other developers, and this Licence is typically provided by “Leasing a license” from the QlikView Server. A Named CAL may be used to elevate QlikView Personal Edition to unrestricted QlikView Desktop at two unique machines per User. QlikView anticipated that a User may develop a document on their Laptop while at the office, and may continue to work on that document when connected to the office by VPN. However deployment of QlikView Desktop on a multi-node Citrix XenApp farm may expose QlikView to more machines (one per node) than permitted even though the Developer is unaware of what Node/Server of the Citrix XenApp farm that they are using. QlikView does not allow a Named User to elevate Personal Edition to QlikView Desktop on a third or subsequent host when Borrowing a Named CAL from the QlikView Server. QlikView document development can be a very RAM intensive process and could adversely affect the performance of other Citrix-deployed applications.
 
QlikTech strongly discourages Desktop Virtualisation of the QlikView development tools unless the virtualisation host is dedicated to QlikView (eg Microsoft Terminal Services connection to a QlikView Publisher host) to minimise contention for resources. Because of the two machine limitation of a Borrowed CAL, QlikTech recommends that if QlikView Desktop is published to a Citrix XenApp Farm then the “Published Application” should be constrained to no more than two specific Servers otherwise the User will observe that QlikView Personal Edition is unable to elevate to QlikView Desktop on some nodes of the Server farm. If the customer insists on deploying QlikView Desktop to more than two hosts that the developer will use (whether physical or virtualised), then QlikTech requires them to acquire a Local Client Licence for each host where QlikView will be used by that user.
 
See also Citrix Presentation Server v4.5 Administrator’s Guide
or the simpler guidance at
 
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