Citrix XenApp 7.x performance essentials : tune and optimize the performance of your farms with the new improved XenApp architecture / Luca Dentella ; cover image by Pratyush Mohanta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dentella, Luca, author.

Contributor:

Mohanta, Pratyush, cover designer.

Series:

Professional experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citrix XenApp.

Client/server computing.

Computer networks--Management.

Computer networks.

Computer networks--Remote access.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (121 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Dentella Luca: Luca Dentella is an IT architect working for an Italian consulting company, Sorint. LAB. He graduated in Telecommunication Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan, and he specialized in Windows and Virtualization technologies, becoming both a Microsoft and a VMware Certified Professional. Over the last 7 years, he has worked mainly for ING Direct, Italy, where he helped to design, develop, and evolve the IT infrastructure of the bank. Some projects he was involved in include call center virtualization, design of bankshop infrastructures, outsourcing part of the back office, and insourcing the core banking backend. In the past, he worked as a Java/C# developer. Now, he leverages his programming skills to write scripts and programs to automate administrative tasks. He designs, implements, and administers XenApp farms for different customers. He's the author of Citrix XenApp Performance Essentials, Packt Publishing. You can visit Luca's blog at http: //www. lucadentella. it.

Summary:

If you are an IT architect or system administrator who works with Citrix® XenApp® and need an agile, practical guide to tune and optimize the performance of your XenApp® architecture, this is the book for you. Citrix®, Citrix Systems®, XenApp®, XenDesktop® and CloudPortalTM are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; Notice; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Designing the New FlexCast® Management Architecture; FlexCast® Management Architecture; The five-layer model; The user layer; The access layer; StoreFront; NetScaler GatewayTM; The resource layer; Hosted apps; VM-hosted apps; Streamed apps; Shared desktops; Remote PC Access; The control layer; Delivery Controllers; SQL databases; License servers; The hardware layer; Hosting resources; Applications on servers - siloed versus nonsiloed; Supporting the infrastructure

Storage Machine Creation Services; PVS versus MCS; IOPS and IntelliCache; Requirements; Connecting to the virtual infrastructure; Creating a new master image; Creating a machine catalog; Updating machines; XenApp® 7.5 versus previous versions; Summary; Chapter 2: Monitor and Optimize Infrastructure - Director and EdgeSight®; Citrix® performance monitoring counters; Citrix® Broker Agent; Citrix® Profile Management; Database counters; Broker Service; XML Service; Monitoring using Microsoft PowerShell; The Get-BrokerMachine cmdlet; The Get-BrokerController cmdlet; The Get-BrokerCatalog cmdlet

The Get-BrokerApplicationInstance cmdletCounting objects; Citrix® Director; System requirements; Installation; Director and EdgeSight®; Roles and helpdesk console; Monitoring virtual infrastructure; The Monitor Service Open Data API; Using Excel PowerPivot; Optimizing the infrastructure; CPU and memory optimizations; Windows Dynamic Fair Share Scheduling; Memory optimization; Network optimization; Power plan; TCP Chimney Offload; Receive Side Scaling; Load balancing and failover; Machine catalogs and delivery groups; Load balancing; Failover; Load Management; Zone versus site

StoreFront configurationSummary; Chapter 3: Monitor and Optimize End User Experience; The logon process; Enumeration; Execution; Session setup; Analyzing the logon process; Optimizing the logon process; Authentication issues; Profile issues; GPO and logon script issues; Citrix® Profile Management; Folder Redirection; Advanced redirection; Optimizing Storefront; Pooled sockets; Application pool initialization; Maintaining user sessions; Session Reliability; Automatic client reconnection; ICA® Keep-Alive; Workspace control; Missing features; Optimizing printing performance

Universal versus native printer driverImproving user experience with Citrix® HDXTM; HDXTM MediaStream; Flash Redirection; Windows Media redirection; Audio redirection; HDXTM Mobile; HDXTM Monitor; Analyzing applications with AppDNATM; System requirements; Usage; Import; Analyze; Report; Summary; Chapter 4: Publishing Applications through WAN Links; Characteristics of a WAN link; Emulating links with WANem; Installing; Configuring; Using; WANalyzer; Optimizing the ICA® protocol; ICA® virtual channels; Virtual channel priorities; ICA® MultiStream; Enabling ICA® MultiStream; Audio over UDP

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Notes:

"Professional Expertise Distilled"--Cover.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 29, 2014).

ISBN:

1-78217-612-8

OCLC:

891786626