Want to ensure that you deliver the best possible user experience for your Citrix Workspace workloads? Then check out Citrix Optimizer and Citrix Workspace Environment Management (WEM). These two Citrix tools are perfect partners to ensure the best possible deployment for your Windows workloads. And the best part? They work together.
WEM uses intelligent resource management and profile management technologies to deliver the best possible performance, desktop logon, and application response times for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops deployments. It is a software-only, driver-free solution, so it’s built to meet your needs.
WEM optimizes your environment in real-time by focusing on both resource management such as RAM, CPU, and I/O in the user workspace environment, as well as profile management, to deliver the best possible logon performance. It replaces commonly used Windows Group Policy objects, logon scripts, and preferences with an agent that is deployed on each virtual machine or server.
What About Optimization Prior to User Activity?
Here’s where Citrix Optimizer comes into play. Citrix Optimizer is a Windows tool that helps Citrix administrators optimize various components in their environment, most notably operating systems with a Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA).
We typically see Citrix Optimizer best used when combined with Citrix Provisioning Services. In this case, Citrix Optimizer optimizes your custom image, sometimes referred to as the golden image, to ensure the best deployment experience. And now, with the latest WEM release, you get centralized management of Citrix Optimizer through the WEM console.
You can manage Citrix Optimizer templates easily with WEM. All it takes is two clicks, and you can deploy built-in optimization templates to the workspaces managed by WEM, giving you a better admin experience. You can also configure or add your own optimization templates and back up or restore optimization templates.
Learn More
To get started with managing Citrix Optimizer with WEM, visit our Citrix Docs page for detailed information. Want to keep up on what’s new with WEM? Check out our What’s New page for the latest on all things WEM.
