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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6

By : Guillermo Musumeci
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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6

By: Guillermo Musumeci

Overview of this book

<p>XenApp 6 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. It reduces resources and costs for application distribution and management. Using Citrix XenApp 6, you can deploy secure applications quickly to thousands of users.</p> <p><em>Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6</em> provides comprehensive details on how to design, implement, and maintain Citrix farms based on XenApp 6. Additionally, you will learn to use management tools and scripts for daily tasks such as managing servers, published resources, printers, and connections.</p> <p><em>Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6</em> starts by introducing the basics of XenApp 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 Farms.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Getting Started with Citrix XenApp 6
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Using HDX 3D technologies to improve image display


Citrix provides HDX 3D technologies to improve image display and reduce CPU load of graphics-intensive applications.

In environments with intensive use of graphics applications, like image editing or manipulation applications, large images are transferred between XenApp servers and client machines.

This is a common issue at Brick Unit Construction, where large images of building plans or presentations with a lot of graphics are used every day. William wants to enable HDX 3D technologies to reduce bandwidth and improve image display. XenApp includes Citrix policies to manage image compression and improve image display:

  • Lossy compression

  • Progressive compression

Both policies are located under Graphics | Image Compression Policy Settings.

Using HDX 3D Image Acceleration to reduce bandwidth

The first HDX 3D technology William wants to implement is SpeedScreen Image Acceleration. This technology uses compression to reduce the size of image files that...