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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp?? 7.6

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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.

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Nov, 2015 | 316 pages
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Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 7.6
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 7.6
Notice
Notice
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Why Citrix XenApp – Making the Case for App Virtualization
Why Citrix XenApp – Making the Case for App Virtualization
Understanding virtualization
Understanding Remote Desktop Services
Introducing Citrix XenApp
The user logon process
Citrix licensing
Microsoft licensing
Other components
XenApp supportability
XenApp certifications
Summary
2
Designing a Citrix Solution to Fit Your Needs
Designing a Citrix Solution to Fit Your Needs
Project planning
Reference Architectures
Designing XenApp for an enterprise
Creating your first architecture
Examples from the IT field
Summary
3
Preparing Your System for XenApp Deployment
Preparing Your System for XenApp Deployment
Control layer
Access layer
Resource layer
Hardware layer
Summary
4
Installing and Configuring Citrix XenApp
Installing and Configuring Citrix XenApp
Creating a VM in XenCenter
Installing the Citrix XenApp 7.6 Delivery Controller
Installing Citrix License Server 11.12.1
Configuring Citrix XenApp 7.6
Configuring the Delivery Controller
Joining a second controller to the XenApp site
Summary
5
Installing and Configuring Citrix StoreFront™
Installing and Configuring Citrix StoreFront™
Installing Citrix StoreFront™
Configuring Citrix StoreFront™
Testing the StoreFront™ user access
Summary
6
Installing and Configuring NetScaler Gateway™
Installing and Configuring NetScaler Gateway™
Installing the NetScaler Gateway VPX™
Configuring the NetScaler Gateway VPX™
Summary
7
Load Balancing with Citrix NetScaler
Load Balancing with Citrix NetScaler
Configuring Citrix NetScaler for load balancing
Summary
8
Building Your First XenApp Farm – Machine Creation Services
Building Your First XenApp Farm – Machine Creation Services
Explaining Machine Creation Services
Preparing your master image
Building XenApp Catalogs with MCS
Summary
9
Building Your First XenApp Farm – Provisioning Services™
Building Your First XenApp Farm – Provisioning Services™
Getting started with PVS
Summary
10
Administering a XenApp Environment – Application Management
Administering a XenApp Environment – Application Management
Application delivery – hosted apps
Summary
11
Administering a XenApp Environment – Server Management
Administering a XenApp Environment – Server Management
RDS licensing
Citrix Profile Management
Taking advantage of Session Prelaunch and Session Linger
Facilitating XenApp administration with Citrix policies
The role of Active Directory Group Policies
Upgrading VDA and PVS target device software
Monitoring the XenApp site
Summary
12
Printing
Printing
Printing in the Windows world
Printing in a Citrix world
Summary
13
Troubleshooting Tools, Tips, and Tricks
Troubleshooting Tools, Tips, and Tricks
Troubleshooting methodology
Case studies
Summary
14
The Big Day – Going Live with Citrix XenApp
The Big Day – Going Live with Citrix XenApp
Environment must-do's
Production rollout strategies
Summary
Index
Index

Hardware layer

In a Citrix XenApp environment, the hardware layer is the sphere that contains a hypervisor and its underlying physical hardware. The hardware layer participates in the XenApp infrastructure by running the OS resources and keeping VM workloads highly available.

Host requirements

Since we've mostly focused on building a virtualized environment in this book, the entire Citrix infrastructure will reside on virtual machines running on a hypervisor. In this deployment, the XenServer hypervisor (version 6.2 SP1) will be used, but you can leverage your existing host infrastructure to build a XenApp solution as long as it is supported by Citrix. The following host platforms are currently supported for XenApp 7.6:

  • XenServer

    • XenServer 6.5 (plus the latest hotfixes for maximum stability and performance)

    • XenServer 6.2 SP1 and 6.1

  • VMware vSphere

    • VMware vSphere 5.5

    • VMware vSphere 5.1 Update 2

    • VMware vSphere 5.0 Update 2

    Note

    Note that the vCenter Linked Mode is not supported by Citrix at the time...

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