Citrix? XenApp? 7.x Performance Essentials电子书

Citrix® XenApp® 7.x Performance Essentials

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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

Index