Citrix XenApp 7.5 Desktop Virtualization Solutions电子书

Citrix XenApp® 7.5 Desktop Virtualization Solutions

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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

Index