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Citrix XenApp® 7.5 Desktop Virtualization Solutions
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Introduction to the XenApp® 7.5 platform
Benefits of using Citrix XenApp®
Citrix XenApp® 7.5 feature comparison
Comparing Citrix XenApp® 7.5 with previous versions
What's new in Citrix XenApp® 7.5
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Planning Desktop Virtualization
The building blocks of VDI
Hosted Virtual Desktop (HVD)
Hosted Shared Desktop (HSD)
Session-based Computing (SBC)
Application virtualization
Understanding VDI layers
Analyzing your user data
Planning your personalization layer
Understanding your applications
Planning for operating system delivery
Anticipating device management
Infrastructure planning
Determining the right fit
The road map to success
Project management in the real world
Managing your project
Summary
2. Defining Your Desktop Virtualization Environment
Understanding your end users
Use case – clinical physicians
Use case – data entry clerks
Use case – office workers
Use case – hospital administration clerks
Use case – call center customer service representatives
Use case – business executives
Translating the user workflow
Understanding applications
Making a questionnaire for an application
Automated application data collection
Using Stratusphere FIT
Utilizing Network Inventory
Using Baseline Desktop Analyzer
Leveraging AppDNA
Implementing Lakeside Software SysTrack
Completing your software inventory
Understanding devices
Endpoints
Peripherals
Defining your use cases
Planning your strategy
Summary
3. Designing Your Infrastructure
Creating a reference architecture
A reference architecture diagram
Understanding the Access tier diagram
Understanding the Delivery tier diagram
Understanding the Supporting Systems tier diagram
Understanding the Backend Data Systems tier diagram
Understanding the Monitoring tier diagram
Understanding the Virtualization Infrastructure tier diagram
Designing highlights
Designing your virtual infrastructure
Resource requirements
Virtual machine requirements
Determining your virtualization platform
XenServer
VMware vSphere
Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Virtualization cluster design decisions
Designing your hardware infrastructure
Selecting between the rack and blade options
Understanding converged platforms
Reconsidering the cloud
Designing your network infrastructure
Planning network options
Designing your storage infrastructure
Capacity planning
Measuring throughput
Completing the architectural blueprint
Summary
4. Designing Your Access Layer
Determining your portal presence
Comparing Web Interface and StoreFront
Reviewing the Access tier diagram
Designing with StoreFront
Requirements for StoreFront
Design decisions for StoreFront
StoreFront recommendations
Customizations
Speeding up StoreFront
Using the application subscription model
Using keywords for StoreFront applications and desktops
Creating sticky applications for StoreFront
Filtering or hiding applications from StoreFront
Enabling discovery for mobile clients
Setting the default IIS page
Rebranding the Receiver for Web site
Using the HOST file to ease setup
Designing with NetScaler Gateway™
Requirements for NetScaler VPX
Configuring the base settings for NetScaler
Configuring load balancing services
Configuring NetScaler Gateway services
Tying it all together
Identifying the base requirements
Gathering all the prerequisites
Installing NetScaler appliances
Installing and configuring StoreFront servers
Configuring load balance virtual servers on NetScaler®
Configuring the NetScaler Gateway™ virtual server
Summary
5. Designing Your Application Delivery Layer
Welcome to XenApp® 7.5
What's new in XenApp 7.5?
Updated concepts in XenApp 7.5
What's missing in XenApp 7.5?
Designing your XenApp® deployment
Requirements for XenApp
Delivery controller
Studio
Database
Director
Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) for the Windows desktop OS
Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) for the Windows server OS
Design decisions for the XenApp site
Creating your XenApp® site
Quick start guide to deploy a XenApp site
Configuring your first XenApp delivery controller
Configuring your XenApp site
Configuring additional delivery controllers
Configuring your XenApp session hosts
Managing your XenApp® site
Getting started with Machine Catalogs
Getting started with Delivery Groups
Application delivery models
Getting the most out of Machine Catalogs and Delivery Groups
Planning your Machine Catalogs and Delivery Groups
Leveraging PowerShell
Moving machines between catalogs
Additional Delivery Group properties
Publishing multiple applications at a time
Additional application properties
Publishing resources to multiple Delivery Groups
Making sure machines are available
Summary
6. Designing Your Virtual Image Delivery
An overview of image management
Determining the right fit for your environment
Understanding Citrix® Machine Creation Services
The storage impact of MCS
Preparing a master image for MCS
Creating an MCS catalog using Studio
Updating an MCS catalog that reflects changes to the master image
Designing Citrix® Provisioning Services
The storage impact of PVS
The network impact of PVS
Designing your PVS farm
Requirements for Provisioning Services
Key design decisions
Preparing a master image for PVS
Creating a Machine Catalog using the PVS deployment wizard
Managing images using PVS
Additional PVS tips and tricks
Summary
7. Designing Your Supporting Infrastructure Components
Planning your license server
The role of the license server in the environment
The requirements for installing the license server
High Availability considerations for the licensing server
Design decisions for the license server
Designing your database platform
The role of the database in the XenApp environment
Planning your SQL server requirements
High Availability considerations for databases
Planning and sizing your Citrix® databases
SQL Server design decisions
Managing your databases
Configuring your file services
The role of file services in the environment
The requirements for file servers
High Availability considerations for file services
Design decisions
Configuring file share permissions
Implementing monitoring for your XenApp® environment
The role of monitoring in the environment
The requirements for installing Director
The requirements for installing the Insight appliance
High Availability considerations for Director
Monitoring design decisions
Using Director to monitor user experience
Summary
8. Optimizing Your XenApp® Solution
Managing user profiles
Types of profiles
Why we need to manage profiles
Planning Citrix Profile Management policies
Planning Microsoft folder redirection
Folder redirection and exclusions
What about home drives?
What about AppData?
Configuring Citrix® policies
Understanding the role of the Citrix policy engine
Using Citrix template policies
Planning your Citrix policies
Defining Citrix policy settings
Applying Citrix policy filters
Recommendations for Citrix policies
Planning Active Directory policies
Understanding the role of Active Directory group policies
Common Group Policy settings for Citrix environments
Best practices for Group Policies
Controlling printing
Understanding the different printing models in a Citrix environment
Using Citrix Universal Print Server
Summary
9. Implementing Your XenApp® Solution
Building your production-ready workload server images
Initial build
Optimizations
Deploying your server images
Testing the preproduction environment
Reviewing the design plan
Final system validation testing
Using capacity planning tools
Performing load testing
Conducting User Acceptance Testing
Defining your criteria
UAT process
UAT feedback
Production rollout
Communication plan
Pilot rollout
Phased production rollout
Supporting your environment during normal operations
Delegated administration
Using Director
SQL queries for monitoring/reporting
Additional troubleshooting tips and tricks
Troubleshooting the VDA registration
Troubleshooting Active Directory
Troubleshooting PVS performance
Troubleshooting storage performance
Troubleshooting Windows system performance
Troubleshooting application performance
Using Citrix troubleshooting tools
Soliciting user feedback
Summary
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