Why the Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 Requires a Fresh Start
Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 must be installed fresh; there is no direct path for an upgrade from previous versions. As such, agencies are advised to start from scratch with the process, which Citrix thankfully makes rather easy.
Once I performed a fresh installation, this new iteration easily integrated with the existing networking and storage infrastructures in my test bed. It also scheduled maintenance with zero downtime, since it migrates virtual machines between Citrix Hypervisor hosts in real time.
Cutting-edge data architectures, such as data mesh and composable applications, may be the future of agency data centers, but virtualization capabilities from solutions such as Citrix Hypervisor are the vehicles that will help drive those modernization efforts forward.
