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    Citrix® XenApp® 7.x Performance Essentials
    Citrix® XenApp® 7.x Performance Essentials
    Citrix® XenApp® 7.x Performance Essentials
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    Citrix® XenApp® 7.x Performance Essentials

    By Luca Dentella

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    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 CloudPortal™ 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateAug 18, 2014
    ISBN9781782176121
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      Citrix® XenApp® 7.x Performance Essentials - Luca Dentella

      Table of Contents

      Citrix® XenApp® 7.x Performance Essentials

      Credits

      Notice

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Designing the New FlexCast® Management Architecture

      FlexCast® Management Architecture

      The five-layer model

      The user layer

      The access layer

      StoreFront

      NetScaler Gateway™

      Access policies

      The resource layer

      Hosted apps

      VM-hosted apps

      Streamed apps

      Shared desktops

      Remote PC Access

      The control layer

      Delivery Controllers

      SQL databases

      The Site database

      Monitoring database

      The Configuration Logging database

      Moving databases

      Scaling

      License servers

      The hardware layer

      Hosting resources

      Applications on servers – siloed versus nonsiloed

      Siloed

      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

      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 cmdlet

      Counting 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 configuration

      Summary

      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 driver

      Improving user experience with Citrix® HDX™

      HDX™ MediaStream

      Flash Redirection

      Windows Media redirection

      Audio redirection

      HDX™ Mobile

      HDX™ Monitor

      Analyzing applications with AppDNA™

      System requirements

      Usage

      Import

      Analyze

      Report

      Summary

      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

      Traffic shaping

      Monitoring bandwidth usage

      Configuring

      Network latency versus ICA® RTT

      Receiver™ for HTML5

      CloudBridge™

      Licensed bandwidth

      Deployment

      Features

      Summary

      Index

      Citrix® XenApp® 7.x Performance Essentials

      Citrix® XenApp® 7.x Performance Essentials

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      First published: August 2013

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      Credits

      Author

      Luca Dentella

      Reviewers

      Mark Fermin

      Andy Paul

      Anton van Pelt

      Commissioning Editor

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      The statements made and opinions expressed herein belong exclusively to the author and reviewers of this publication, and are not shared by or represent the viewpoint of Citrix Systems®, Inc. This publication does not constitute an endorsement of any product, service, or point of view. Citrix® makes no representations, warranties or assurances of any kind, express or implied, as to the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability, availability, or currency of the content contained in this publication or any material related to this publication. Any reliance you place on such content is strictly at your own risk. In no event shall Citrix®, its agents, officers, employees, licensees, or affiliates be liable for any damages whatsoever (including, without limitation, damages for loss of profits, business information, or loss of information) arising out of the information or statements contained in the publication, even if Citrix® has been advised of the possibility of such loss or damages.

      Citrix®, Citrix Systems®, XenApp®, XenDesktop®, and CloudPortal™ 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.

      About the Author

      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.

      Special thanks to my family and my girlfriend, Sara, for supporting me during the writing of this book. Also, I'd like to thank my colleagues for helping me understand the network and security concepts, and my company for providing the lab environment.

      About the Reviewers

      Mark Fermin is a director and IT solutions architect living in Atlanta, Georgia. His 18-year IT career has allowed him to gain experience in engineering, consulting, architecture, and technical leadership and management. Most recently, his work has focused on solutions architecture in End User Compute, Datacenter Virtualization, Mobility and Consumerization, Application Delivery, Operational Intelligence, and Security and Privacy. While his career experience has spanned many industry verticals, he has specific affinity and passion for designing solutions for healthcare.

      Mark's expertise comes from employment with industry leaders and clients, including Microsoft, Citrix Systems®, The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Providence Health System, Xerox, Bayer AG, and McKesson Corporation.

      Mark was a reviewer for Getting Started with Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, Stuart Arthur Brown, Packt Publishing.

      Mark has been an active blogger and contributor to the enterprise IT community (specifically to the Citrix® and application/desktop virtualization communities) through his posts on his personal technology blog, http://benchtime.wordpress.com, contributions made through exclusive membership in the Citrix® Partner Technical Experts advisory group, membership and participation in the Atlanta Citrix® User Group, customer and community advisory groups for VMware, Cisco, ExtraHop, and healthcare IT, as well as mobile advisory workgroups.

      Andy Paul is an accomplished virtualization architect, instructor, and speaker. He has designed and delivered virtualization projects for Fortune 500 companies, public and private healthcare organizations, and higher-education institutions. He

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