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Citrix XenApp Performance Essentials

By : Luca Dentella
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Citrix XenApp Performance Essentials

By: Luca Dentella

Overview of this book

Citrix XenApp is an application virtualization product that allows users to connect to their corporate applications from any device. XenApp can host applications on central servers and allows users to interact with them remotely or stream and deliver them to user devices for local execution. Citrix XenApp Performance Essentials is a practical guide that provides you guidelines, best practices, and real world examples that will help you to improve the performance of your farm, identifying and solving possible bottlenecks and using advanced features including the new features provided by XenApp 6.5. Citrix XenApp is widely used to deliver enterprise applications to end users. This book covers the whole process of optimizing a XenApp farm, starting from the design phase all the way to tuning for remote users and connecting via geographic links. With your farm in production, you will understand what to monitor and how to optimize your farm, as well as how to use an open-source tool, WANem, to test the applications' behavior with different link conditions. You will also learn which settings and features XenApp offers to optimize CPU and memory utilization. This book will help you to prevent or solve performance problems and make your users happy working with published applications.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Chapter 1. Designing a Scalable XenApp Infrastructure

The design of a XenApp infrastructure is a complex task that requires a good knowledge of XenApp components. Taking the right decisions in the design phase may also greatly help system administrators to expand XenApp farms for satisfying new business requirements or to improve the user experience.

In this chapter you will learn:

  • The key components of a XenApp infrastructure

  • How those components work together

  • The best practices by Citrix and some suggestions from my experience to design an architecture that respects initial requirements and is scalable for new needs

  • How to implement Provisioning Services to deploy new session host servers

  • How to run a load test using Citrix Load Testing