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Citrix XenApp Performance Essentials

By : Luca Dentella
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Citrix XenApp Performance Essentials

By: Luca Dentella

Overview of this book

Citrix XenApp is an application virtualization product that allows users to connect to their corporate applications from any device. XenApp can host applications on central servers and allows users to interact with them remotely or stream and deliver them to user devices for local execution. Citrix XenApp Performance Essentials is a practical guide that provides you guidelines, best practices, and real world examples that will help you to improve the performance of your farm, identifying and solving possible bottlenecks and using advanced features including the new features provided by XenApp 6.5. Citrix XenApp is widely used to deliver enterprise applications to end users. This book covers the whole process of optimizing a XenApp farm, starting from the design phase all the way to tuning for remote users and connecting via geographic links. With your farm in production, you will understand what to monitor and how to optimize your farm, as well as how to use an open-source tool, WANem, to test the applications' behavior with different link conditions. You will also learn which settings and features XenApp offers to optimize CPU and memory utilization. This book will help you to prevent or solve performance problems and make your users happy working with published applications.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Chapter 4. Improving End User Experience

When I started working with Citrix MetaFrame, the ancestor of XenApp, it was mainly used to publish business applications, like ERP or mainframe's terminal emulators, so there was no need for multimedia features.

In the last few years, I needed to publish more and more multimedia applications to my users. With the adoption of thin clients, all the applications including CAD applications, media players, and internet browsers, had to run on XenApp servers. In addition, some business applications now use graphical effects (transitions, transparencies, and so on) that benefit from hardware acceleration.

In this chapter you'll learn:

  • How to optimize the Windows GUI for applications published with XenApp

  • Which features XenApp offers for multimedia redirection

  • What is Citrix HDX and how to use its features to deliver a high-definition experience