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Citrix → AVD · /// Migration

Cut over with measured confidence, not a status meeting.

LoadGen turns Citrix → AVD migrations into a measured engineering practice — same scenario shape, same engine, side-by-side validation. Every wave is a measurement, every gate is data.

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Citrix → AVD · Migration Plan

Source baseline · target validation · wave readiness.

Citrix · Production AVD · West Europe5 waves · 930 users
Waves
5
2 done · 1 active
Users
930
across 5 waves
App groups
5
1 blocked · 1 active
Validation
58 %
envelope passed
Migration waves
2026-Q2 → 2026-Q4
Wave 3 · Finance
SAP GUI · ERP
Active
Users312
App groupSAP GUI · ERP
Readiness
74% · per-user assessment
Validation gate
Citrix → AVD
P95 latency720ms640ms
Throughput22req/s24req/s
Error rate1.6%1.4%
Validation gate · within envelope
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The Problem

Migrations don’t fail at cutover. They fail at assumption.

The questions an infrastructure lead has to answer before promoting Wave 3 don’t come from a vendor brochure — they come from running the same scenario on both stacks.

Migration plans built on slides, not measurements.

A roadmap that says "Q3: cut over Finance" without a Citrix baseline isn’t a plan — it’s a gamble with 312 SAP users on the table.

AVD pilots that pass — and prod regressions that don’t.

A 50-user pilot proves nothing about a 1,500-user finance close. Without parity testing, the regression surfaces on cutover weekend.

No sign-off evidence after the cutover.

Migration is "done" only when leadership has the data to confirm it. Without continuous validation, you ship the move and inherit the doubt.

How LoadGen solves this

Assess · Baseline · Migrate · Validate.

Four motions running in parallel across waves — not a Gantt chart of phases that wait on each other.

Assess

Audit users, app groups, and dependencies. Stack-rank waves by risk and value. Use the Citrix wizard to capture session counts and HDX/ICA telemetry.

Baseline

Run the Citrix wizard scenario at production load. Capture P95 latency, throughput, error rate. Save the comparison anchor.

Migrate

Run the AVD wizard with the same scenario shape. Right-size host pools per wave. Validate before promoting users.

Validate

Overlay Citrix baseline against AVD result. Pass or fail the wave on measured envelope, not on a slide.

Live · Migration Plan

The wave plan, the validation gate, on one surface.

The migration cockpit shows every wave, every app group, every user count — and runs the Citrix-vs-AVD comparison gate on each one. Promote when the gate passes; investigate when it doesn’t.

Source → target chips
Citrix · Production → AVD · West Europe — pinned at the top of the cockpit so context is never lost.
5-test overlay
Compare Citrix baseline against the last four AVD runs — drill into Overview, Moments, Measurements.
Validation gate
P95 / throughput / error-rate must clear the Citrix baseline before a wave promotes.
Sign-off audit trail
Every promotion writes a signed evidence row. Leadership sees the data, not the slide.

Outcomes · before / after

Move 4× faster. Inherit 91 % fewer incidents.

Drawn from teams that adopted parity testing as the wave promotion gate for their Citrix → AVD program.

Cutover-week incidents

Before

11

After

1

−91 %
Wave validation cycle time

Before

6 days

After

4 hrs

−97 %
Users migrated per quarter

Before

120

After

480

+300 %
Post-migration UX regressions

Before

38 %

After

4 %

−89 %

Migrate on data. Sign off on evidence.

Run your Citrix baseline this week. Run the AVD scenario next week. Promote Wave 3 the week after with the kind of confidence that doesn’t need a status meeting.

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