Best practices of upgrade from PS 4.0 to 4.5

[19972003]

what is the best practice of upgrading the citrix 4.0 to 4.5? are there any issues that I will need to aware of?
Many thanks,

 

[Dublin73]

Where is the data store for the PS4 farm? How many servers are in the farm?

Generally it's better to create a new farm altogether, rather than upgrade.

 

[19972003]

The data store is on sql 2k server, 2 servers in the farm; will it make sense to create a new server with 4.0 and upgrade it to test it ?

 

[Dublin73]

If it's only two servers, I'd just create a new data store and 4.5 farm altogether.

 

[19972003]

Does it mean that i have to install all of the apps from scratch? I know that if I start from 4.5 fresh that I will have less point of failure issue not to say that I am not going to have any issues.

 

[Dublin73]

You'd have to install the apps from scratch, as you have to install the Citrix software prior to installing your apps.

 

[19972003]

unfortunately that is not an option, since I wasn't the one install the app and there are compatibility issues with win2003 sp2. It will take a long time to install the app and test the app. Have you experienced any issues during the 4.0 to 4.5 upgrade?

 

[dudenjersey]

you can try creating a new farm, then uninstall Citrix on the current boxes and install 4.5 and add to the new farm, at least that way you'll save your apps.

 

[19972003]

You mean i can create a new farm on the 4.0 PS server? I guess there isn't any other options. Is it worth to have the 4.5? It seems like 4.5 is not a major upgrade.