Today's IT organizations are a complex ecosystem of well…expectations. Performance is treated as a commodity and nothing short of the fastest is acceptable by enterprise software, data centers, and services. Not only do systems need to deliver quickly but they also have to be highly available with no single point of failure. As a product that impacts your entire IT infrastructure, Citrix XenApp is expected to provide high performance for end users, while also keeping an environment secure and easy to manage for system administrators. Over the years, Citrix has acquired and developed a number of products that add value to its core solutions. One such product is NetScaler, part of which we already deployed in the previous chapter. Now that we have an authentication point in place for XenApp, we are going to set up load balancing for StoreFront. NetScaler can be used to load balance a multitude of services not just from the Citrix perspective...
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp?? 7.6
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp?? 7.6
Overview of this book
If you want to effectively deploy the various components of Citrix XenApp to create an enterprise environment for application and desktop delivery, this hands-on guide is perfect for you. You start off by understanding the need and benefits of Citrix XenApp with respect to Virtualization technology. After this, you will get to grips with the requirement analysis and designing aspect of building XenApp systems and all the necessary installation and configuration procedures for Citrix XenApp, StoreFront and NetScalar Gateway are explained one by one in detail.
Step-by-step, you will learn to deploy your first XenApp with the Machine Creation Services method and Provisioning Services method. After this, you will explore the administering part of applications and systems, followed by printing in the XenApp environment. Next, you will learn all the trips and tricks required to troubleshoot and support the XenApp environment. By the end of this book, you will be ready to go live with your new XenApp environment.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 7.6
Notice
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Why Citrix XenApp – Making the Case for App Virtualization
Designing a Citrix Solution to Fit Your Needs
Preparing Your System for XenApp Deployment
Installing and Configuring Citrix XenApp
Installing and Configuring Citrix StoreFront™
Installing and Configuring NetScaler Gateway™
Load Balancing with Citrix NetScaler
Building Your First XenApp Farm – Machine Creation Services
Building Your First XenApp Farm – Provisioning Services™
Administering a XenApp Environment – Application Management
Administering a XenApp Environment – Server Management
Troubleshooting Tools, Tips, and Tricks
The Big Day – Going Live with Citrix XenApp
Index
Customer Reviews