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Appendix A: Best Practices
The following list details items to consider and issues to address to ensure deploy and use your
zero clients successfully.
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Recommended deployments
The following table shows the recommended deployment option in a shared, managed
deployment; in a shared, unmanaged deployment; and in a direct, unmanaged environment.
Table 16. PCoIP connection methods
Management
Managed
Environment
Unmanaged
Environment
Network
Topology
Peer Assignment
IP Assignment
CMS
Assignment
SLP
Discovery
Static
Assignment
Shared
DHCP
  ×
Reserved DHCP
  
Static IP
  
Direct
Connection
Static IP
×  

Managed environment with a shared network: Use DHCP and CMS (Sentral)
assignment. Using Sentral enables advanced connection brokering and robust
management of all devices.

Unmanaged environment with a shared network (reserved DHCP): Use reserved
DHCP on host cards and static assignments. The consistency administrators achieve
using static assignments can significantly simplify deployments because device host card
IP addresses and assignments are always known. In this scenario, connections are
immediate (provided that there is network connectivity), and users will always connect to