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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

Summary


In this chapter, we learned about Virtualization of XenApp farms. In particular, we talked about:

  • Deploying XenApp 6.5 in a virtualized environment, including advantages and disadvantages, Virtual machine performance and host scalability and more

  • Deploying XenApp 6.5 on Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, and VMware vSphere virtual machines

  • Cloning XenApp 6.5 virtual machines

This is the last piece of advice. Virtualization will provide a lot of benefits and savings. However, one of my preferred reasons to implement VM over physical servers is not related to performance or management, it is related with reliability. Let's use an example to clarify the idea:

We have two identical servers. One is the physical server running XenApp. This server can support 120-140 users. Now we have the second server, running a hypervisor with four virtual machines. Each virtual machine can support 25 to 35 users, depending on the load. So the hypervisor can support around 100-140 users.

If the physical...