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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)

Citrix HDX


HDX stands for High Definition eXperience. It's more than a technology; it's a brand that encapsulates several different features, some of which were already previously available with different names.

Citrix created the HDX brand to group together all the elements that deliver high-definition experience to XenApp/XenDesktop users. HDX is designed to take advantage, when possible, of the processing power of end user devices.

HDX MediaStream

HDX MediaStream is a set of features to optimize the delivery of video/audio content.

It offloads, when possible, the rendering of media content to the user device, reducing server's CPU load and bandwidth usage. Because the media content is processed on the user's device, the playback is not affected by latency.

Flash redirection

Adobe Flash is a technology adopted in many websites, including YouTube and other video-hosting services. It's also used in some web applications, for example, the management console of VMware View.

You can configure HDX...