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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 Microsoft Hyper-V


Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V R2 (Hyper-V), the next-generation hypervisor-based server virtualization technology, is available as an integral feature of Windows Server 2008 R2 and enables you to implement server virtualization with ease.

Hyper-V allows us to make the best use of the server hardware investments by consolidating multiple server roles as separate virtual machines (VMs) running on a single physical machine.

Hyper-V requires 64-bit machines with AMD-V or Intel VT-enabled processors

Hyper-V is not available for the Itanium edition or Windows Server 2008 R1 32-bit editions.

Hyper-V is available as two different versions:

  • A standalone product called Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2: This version is free and available for download at www.microsoft.com. This version is a limited version of Windows Server 2008 R2 Core with the Hyper-V role enabled and other roles disabled. This version can be managed using command line, PowerShell, or using...