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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)

Using Citrix performance monitoring counters


When you install XenApp on a Windows server, the setup adds some new performance counters you can access from Windows Performance Monitor. A regular analysis of performance data helps to identify possible bottlenecks or lack of free resources.

Citrix performance counters are grouped into six sections. In the next section, you can find a description of the most significant ones.

Citrix CPU Utilization Mgmt User

The following counters are related to the server's CPU:

Counter name

Description

CPU Entitlement

The percentage of CPU resource that Citrix CPU Utilization Management makes available to a user at a given time.

You'll learn how to configure CPU Utilization Management later in this chapter.

CPU Reservation

The percentage of CPU resource reserved for a user.

CPU Shares

The proportion of CPU resource assigned to a user.

CPU Usage

The percentage of CPU resource consumed by a user, measured in an interval of a few seconds.

Long-term...