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Mastering Citrix XenDesktop

By : GUNNALA GOVARDHAN, Daniele Tosatto
Book Image

Mastering Citrix XenDesktop

By: GUNNALA GOVARDHAN, Daniele Tosatto

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Citrix XenDesktop
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

XenDesktop® deployment architectures for complex environments


In the previous section, we saw how broad the scope of designing the overall XenDesktop environment for implementation is. We'll now see the XenDesktop architectures that are designed for certain complex and advanced business use cases. These architectures, at their core, consist of all the factors that were discussed earlier. Additionally, they involve advanced configurations and components.

XenDesktop® architecture designed for high availability

High availability is also referred to as HA, and it is a key enterprise feature, which is expected for business continuity. HA is a strategy for businesses to consider/expect failures in a system and build an alternate auto failover at all the possible failure points. An HA design should eliminate all the points of failures and increase the reliability of each layer of FMA, and consequently, increasing the reliability of the overall system. HA for XenDesktop refers to building redundancy...