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Just before the Christmas break, Citrix released a minor update for its orchestration framework Workflow Studio.

The new version 2.0.1. doesn’t introduce any change in the product but extends the existing activity libraries and delivers a couple of new ones.
Here’s the extended/new libraries about virtualization:

• [NEW] Citrix XenDesktop Activity Library
  • Activities that create, delete, and retrieve desktop definitions and manage desktop groups.
• [EXTENDED] Citrix XenServer Activity Library 
  • Automate the process of taking snapshots, backing up VMs, and backing up VM metadata for site migration and disaster recovery scenarios.
  • Automate the installation and update of tools on guest VMs.
• [EXTENDED] Citrix XenApp Activity Library
  Now includes activities that support automated application streaming packaging and application management.

On top of that Citrix also made available a new library to automate the Xen-based virtual machines that live in the Amazon EC2 cloud computing platform:

• Bundle Instance - bundles an instance within Amazon EC2 (using S3)
• Create Security Group - creates a new security group
• Delete Security Group - deletes a security group
• Get AMIs - returns a list of all the registered AMIs
• Get Instances - returns a list of all the instances currently running
• Launch Instance - launches a new instance (or instances) of the specified AMI
• Terminate Instance - terminates one or more instances

Labels: Citrix, Platform Orchestration, Releases