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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812067403321
• Autore: Dentella Luca
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Birmingham, England : , : Packt Publishing, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-78217-612-8
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (121 p.)
• Collana: Professional experience distilled
• Disciplina: 004.36
• Soggetti: Client/server computing; Computer networks - Management; Computer networks - Remote access
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Professional Expertise Distilled"--Cover.; Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Traffic shaping
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.