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Citrix® XenApp® 7.x Performance Essentials
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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
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