In this chapter, you learned how to monitor your XenApp infrastructure.

Performance counters can provide you with real-time and historical data, and you can get the health status of all the components in your infrastructure using PowerShell. Using the OData API, you can access performance data from any OData consumer.

Citrix Director is the new, powerful tool included in XenApp 7.5 that helps system administrators and help-desk operators to identify and resolve problems affecting performance and end user experience.

Some of the advanced features included in XenApp 6.5 to optimize the usage of CPU and memory are not available in the new version, but they are somehow replaced by the Windows features.

Using a mix of delivery groups, Load Management policies, and advanced StoreFront configurations, you can improve how applications and sessions are balanced on your servers.

In the next chapter, you'll learn how to monitor and optimize the end user experience.