Citrix® XenApp® 7.x Performance Essentials

Tune and optimize the performance of your farms with the new improved XenApp® architecture

About This Book

Monitor your infrastructure using the new tools, and learn how to optimize the end-user experience

Discover the new FlexCast Management Architecture of XenApp 7.5 and its components

Explore the new features designed for mobile and remote users

Who This Book Is For

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.

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What You Will Learn

Design a new infrastructure based on the FlexCast® Management Architecture

Monitor the infrastructure to identify bottlenecks

Load balance your applications

Use of WANem to simulate and test the performance of applications over a geographic link

Optimize the end user experience using the EdgeSight® user experience monitoring tool

Improve the performance of multimedia applications with Citrix® HDX™

Take advantage of the new features of XenApp® 7.x for mobile and remote users

In Detail

This book is a practical, example-oriented guide that provides you with guidelines, best practices, and real-world examples that will help you to improve the performance of your infrastructure, identify and solve possible bottlenecks, and use advanced features. The advantages of cost reduction, reduced deployment time, inclusion of AppDNA™ with XenApp®, streamlining IT operations, and EdgeSight® user experience monitoring have all been covered to enable you to make use of the latest version fully.

The book begins with an in-depth examination of the new FlexCast® Management Architecture, followed by optimization techniques using Director and EdgeSight®. You will also learn how to optimize end user experience and publish applications through WAN links.

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About the Author

Luca Dentella

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.