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Citrix XenApp 7.x Performance Essentials

Citrix XenApp 7.x Performance Essentials

By : Luca Dentella
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Citrix XenApp 7.x Performance Essentials

Citrix XenApp 7.x Performance Essentials

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

Optimizing Storefront

When I moved from the old Web Interface to Storefront, I noticed that the latter was significantly slower than the former.

Storefront is a .NET application running on Microsoft IIS. Therefore, you can optimize the performance of Storefront by tuning the application server.

Pooled sockets

The ability to maintain a pool of sockets instead of creating a new one each time a new user connects is already present in Citrix Web Interface. This gives a better performance, especially when using SSL.

To enable pooledSockets, open the web.config file in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Citrix\storename and change pooledSockets to on, as shown in the following screenshot:

Enabling pooled sockets

Application pool initialization

The default behavior of IIS is to initialize the application pool that runs Storefront when the first user connects. If the initialization process lasts a couple of minutes, and you're restarting the server every night, the first users arriving at the office in the morning will...

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