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Citrix XenApp 7.x Performance Essentials

By : Dentella
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Citrix XenApp 7.x Performance Essentials

By: Dentella

Overview of this book

If you are an IT architect or system administrator who works with Citrix® XenApp® and need an agile, practical guide to tune and optimize the performance of your XenApp® architecture, this is the book for you. Citrix®, Citrix Systems®, XenApp®, XenDesktop® and CloudPortal™ are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries.

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Citrix XenApp 7.x Performance Essentials
Dentella
Aug, 2014 | 120 pages
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Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Free Chapter
1
1. Designing the New FlexCast® Management Architecture
1. Designing the New FlexCast® Management Architecture
FlexCast® Management Architecture
The five-layer model
Machine Creation Services
XenApp® 7.5 versus previous versions
Summary
2
2. Monitor and Optimize Infrastructure – Director and EdgeSight®
2. Monitor and Optimize Infrastructure – Director and EdgeSight®
Citrix® performance monitoring counters
Monitoring using Microsoft PowerShell
Citrix® Director
The Monitor Service Open Data API
Optimizing the infrastructure
Load balancing and failover
Summary
3
3. Monitor and Optimize End User Experience
3. Monitor and Optimize End User Experience
The logon process
Citrix® Profile Management
Optimizing Storefront
Maintaining user sessions
Optimizing printing performance
Improving user experience with Citrix® HDX™
Analyzing applications with AppDNA™
Summary
4
4. Publishing Applications through WAN Links
4. Publishing Applications through WAN Links
Characteristics of a WAN link
Emulating links with WANem
Optimizing the ICA® protocol
Traffic shaping
Receiver™ for HTML5
CloudBridge™
Summary
5
Index
Index

Chapter 1. Designing the New FlexCast® Management Architecture

The design of a XenApp infrastructure is a complex task that requires good knowledge of XenApp components. Making the right decisions in the design phase may also greatly help system administrators to expand XenApp farms to satisfy new business requirements or to improve the user experience.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following:

  • The key features of the new FlexCast Management Architecture
  • The five-layer model
  • Sizing each layer's components
  • Implementing and using Machine Creation Services to deploy new worker servers in minutes
  • The difference between XenApp 6.5 and 7.5
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