visionapp Server Management 2008 (vSM) automates the server builds that are pushed out to your Citrix farm.

With manual processes, each server build can take up to a full day, and if you have hotfixes and application updates, there’s no way around performing a complete rebuild. With visionapp’s vSM, however, you use pre-built, pre-tested, and Citrix Ready™ package templates of operating systems, Citrix XenApp™, hotfixes and patches, and most business applications. Simply add your configuration and licensing information, stack the packages appropriately, and build your server—it can take as little as 20 minutes!

When you require a new application update or new patch, simply add the new package to the stack—your previous configuration and licensing information can be automatically added—and click to rebuild the server. If you have many server builds to manage, vSM can save days, weeks, or even months of time and effort—you’ll see the savings on initial deployment, and much bigger savings every time you update your infrastructure.

Return on investment
vSM builds and updates Citrix farms in a fraction of the time—and with a fraction of the effort—of imaging, scripting, or manual building. Your Citrix farm can be completely built in under five days instead of six to eight weeks.

Enforce best practices
vSM logs everything that is done, lets admins roll back servers to the last known good state, and follows change management recommendations from ITIL. It’s a must-have for organizations that need to prove that servers have been managed with best practices in place.