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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5

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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5

Overview of this book

XenApp is the leader in application hosting and virtualization delivery, allowing users from different platforms such Windows, Mac, Linux, and mobile devices to connect to their business applications. Using XenApp, you can deploy secure applications quickly to thousands of users.XenApp 6.5 brings with it exciting new features such as a brand new management console, Instant App access, Multi-stream ICA, Single Sign-on and SmartAuditor enhancements, and more.Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5 provides comprehensive details on how to design, implement, and maintain Citrix farms based on XenApp 6.5. Additionally, you will learn to use management tools and scripts for daily tasks such as managing servers, published resources, printers, and connections.Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5 starts by introducing the basics and new features of the brand new version such as installing servers and configuring components, and then teaches you how to publish applications and resources on the client device before moving on to configuring content redirection. Author Guillermo Musumeci includes a use case throughout the book to explain advanced topics like creating management scripts and deploying and optimizing XenApp for Citrix XenServer, VMware ESX, and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines. It will guide you through an unattended installation of XenApp and components on physical servers. By the end of this book you will have enough knowledge to successfully design and manage your own XenApp 6.5 Farms.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6.5
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Acknowledgement
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Deploying XenApp 6.5 on Citrix XenServer


XenServer is an open and powerful server virtualization solution that cuts datacenter costs by transforming static and complex datacenter environments into more dynamic, easy-to-manage delivery centers.

XenServer, the Citrix server virtualization solution, is based on Xen, an open-source virtualization project that supports both Intel Virtualization Technology (INTEL VT) and AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) capabilities. Xen allows a single machine to host multiple isolated environments, each running on a different operating system.

In 2004, the Xen project released the first version of its hypervisor and in 2007 Citrix purchased XenSource, renaming Xen products as XenServer Standard Edition and XenServer Enterprise Edition.

Citrix XenServer free edition is available for free at www.citrix.com/xenserver.

Also, we can buy the Advanced, Enterprise, or Platinum Editions. These versions provide different features such as high availability, workload balancing, storage...