I recently started at a company managing all the virtualization products. My background is infrastructure mostly and I haven't dealt with vmware desktop and application related software much. Our VMware licenses are up for renewal shortly and they include a lot of Thinapp license packs from a project that was started and abandoned last year before fully being completed. My question is how can I determine how many licenses are needed going forward as the quantity purchased was for the final project and I don't think we need them all going forward in the current state.
I've identified what apps have been deployed as Thinapp's and if they are on Citrix or being deployed to desktop/laptops with SCCM, so the environment is mixed. I've determined what users has access via groups to the thinapp's in Citrix.
The users getting the apps from SCCM seem straight forward from a licensing stand point. My issue is how to determine the concurrent users in the Citrix environment for licensing purposes. I know there are AD groups that give access to these thinapp's in Citrix but with the number that have access I don't believe it’s the same amount actually using them or needing to be licensed in a Citrix environment deployment.