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Getting Started with XenDesktop 7.x

By : Craig Thomas Ellrod
Book Image

Getting Started with XenDesktop 7.x

By: Craig Thomas Ellrod

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Getting Started with XenDesktop 7.x
Credits
Notice
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Creating a Domain Certificate Authority
Index

Managing the Delivery Controller environment


The Delivery Controller is the component that distributes desktops, manages user access, and optimizes connections. A XenDesktop Site can have one or more controllers depending on the size of the deployment.

Controller discovery

Before a desktop can be used, the Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) must establish a connection with a Delivery Controller. The VDA finds a controller by checking the ListOfDDCs registry key. The ListOfDDCs registry key contains the DNS entries or IP addresses that point to the controllers for the XenDesktop Site. For load balancing, the VDA automatically distributes connections across all the controllers in the list.

The ListOfSIDs registry key indicates which machine Security IDs (SIDs) the VDA will allow to contact it as a controller. The ListOfSIDs registry key can be used to decrease the load on Active Directory or to avoid possible security threats from a compromised DNS server.

You need to make sure that the ListOfDDCs and...