Mastering Citrix? XenDesktop?电子书

Mastering Citrix® XenDesktop®

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Mastering Citrix® XenDesktop®

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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. Evolution and Core Strengths of XenDesktop®

The evolution of XenDesktop®

Citrix® and its vision

Citrix®'s relationship with Microsoft

Citrix® XenDesktop® virtualization solutions

The XenDesktop® and Project Avalon roadmap

XenDesktop® releases and improvements

Citrix® Desktop Server 1.0

XenDesktop® 2.0

XenDesktop® 2.1

XenDesktop® 3.0

XenDesktop® 3.0 Feature Pack 1

XenDesktop® 4.0

XenDesktop® 4.0 Feature Pack 1

XenDesktop® 4.0 Feature Pack 2

XenDesktop® 5.0

XenDesktop® 5.5

XenDesktop® 5.6

XenDesktop® 5.6 Feature Pack 1

XenDesktop® 7.0

XenDesktop® 7.1

XenDesktop® 7.5

XenDesktop® 7.6

XenDesktop® 7.6 Feature Pack 1

Core strengths of XenDesktop®

Citrix® Receiver for any device, anytime, anywhere

HDX user experience technology

Intelligent redirection

Adaptive compression

De-duplication of network traffic

FlexCast® delivery technology

Hosted shared

Hosted VDI

Random/Non-persistent

Static/Non-persistent

Static persistent

Remote PC

Streamed VHD

Local VM

On-demand apps

Open architecture - Cloud-ready FMA

On-demand applications by XenApp®

Automated application migration with AppDNA®

High security and compliance standards

Summary

2. Understanding the XenDesktop® Architecture in Detail

Key features of the XenDesktop® architecture for businesses

The evolution of XenDesktop® architecture

XenDesktop® 2.0 and Independent Management Architecture (IMA)

XenDesktop® 5.0 and FlexCast® Management Architecture

XenDesktop® 7.0 with FMA - the unified architecture for XenDesktop® 7 and XenApp®

The basics of FMA - the XenDesktop® architecture

Concepts and terminologies

The components of FMA

Core components

Additional components

The features of FMA

Terminology change from the IMA to the latest FMA

Advanced FMA - the XenDesktop® architecture in detail

The five layers of FMA

Working of FMA components to deliver virtual desktops

Phase 1 - User authentication and resources enumeration

Phase 2 - Virtual Desktop allocation and connection establishment

Designing FMA for your XenDesktop® deployment

Project Accelerator

The assess phase

The design phase

Results along with an example

Summary

3. Designing XenDesktop® for Complex Environments

Desktop environments

The essential elements of a desktop environment

Business expectations of a desktop environment

XenDesktop® – Transforming desktop environments

XenDesktop®

Additional technologies

Process of designing XenDesktop® deployments

Decisions to be made at each layer

User layer

Access layer

Desktop/resource layer

Control layer

Hardware layer

Tools for designing XenDesktop®

Project Accelerator

Virtual Desktop Handbook

XenDesktop® Reviewer's Guide

XenDesktop® deployment architectures for complex environments

XenDesktop® architecture designed for high availability

Overview

In-depth analysis of the HA architecture at each layer of FMA

User layer

Access layer

Desktop/resource layer

Control layer

Hardware layer

Best practices of HA

Design considerations for a scalable deployment

XenDesktop® scalability

StoreFront

Delivery controllers

Database

Provisioning technologies—MCS and PVS

Open architecture and Cloud support

Windows operating system and applications optimization

Site capacity and multi-site deployments

Hardware scalability

Single server scalability

Scalability with hardware assisted server technologies

Storage considerations

App Orchestration – multi forest Active Directory Environment

Active Directory requirements

DNS requirements

VDA requirements

SSL requirements

XenDesktop® and Cloud computing integration

Cloud computing for desktop virtualization

XenDesktop® Cloud support

CloudPlatform

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Computing (EC2)

AWS limitations for XenDesktop® deployment

Private Cloud

The deployment architecture

Public Cloud (using Amazon AWS)

The deployment architecture

Deployment functional overview

Detailed deployment procedure

Hybrid Cloud (using Amazon AWS)

The deployment architecture

Deployment functional overview

Detailed deployment procedure

Summary

4. Implementing a XenDesktop® Environment

Installing of XenDesktop®'s main components

Installing Citrix® Licensing

Understanding the site database

Installing the Delivery Controller

Creating the XenDesktop® site

Installing Citrix® Director

Installing Citrix® StoreFront

Creating a Citrix® StoreFront store

Summary

5. Delivering Virtual Desktops and Optimizing XenDesktop®

Configuring XenDesktop® components for high availability

Installing an additional Delivery Controller

Installing an additional Citrix® StoreFront

Making configuration changes in StoreFront

Installing Virtual Desktop Agent

Creating and configuring machine catalogs and delivery groups

Optimizing XenDesktop® Virtual Desktop Agent for performance

Managing Citrix® policies

Summary

6. Configuring XenDesktop® for Advanced Use Cases

Advanced use cases of XenDesktop®

Implementing advanced business use cases with XenDesktop®

Fine-tuning and customizing XenDesktop® for advanced use cases

Configuring XenDesktop® for advanced business use cases

High-end 3D business applications using GPU technology

Traditional setup for high-end 3D business applications using physical desktops

XenDesktop® provisioning GPU enabled virtual desktops

NVidia GRID – graphics accelerated virtualization

XenDesktop® 3D solution architectures using NVidia GRID technology

Implementing XenDesktop® 3D solutions using NVidia GRID technology

Steps to implement the GPU sharing environment using Citrix® XenDesktop®, XenServer®, and NVidia GRID

Unified Communications Solutions (UCS) - audio and video conferencing applications

Challenges with UCS - audio and video conferencing applications

XenDesktop® support for UCS (audio and video conferencing) applications

Generic HDX RealTime technologies

Optimized HDX RealTime technologies

Local App Access (Reverse Seamless) for the UCS applications

XenDesktop® and UCS (audio and video conferencing) applications

XenDesktop® optimized UCS applications

Other UCS applications and XenDesktop®

Configuring the UCS applications in XenDesktop®

Optimized for XenDesktop® – Microsoft Lync

Generic UCS application – Citrix® GoToMeeting

Streaming media applications through HDX technology

Components of streaming media and its setup in the traditional desktop environment

XenDesktop streaming media capabilities

The HDX MediaStream Flash Redirection

Configuring XenDesktop® for streaming media

Configuring HDX MediaStream Flash Redirection

Secured Internet access through web filtering

Web filtering technologies and their options

Integrating web filtering technologies with XenDesktop®

Further consideration for DaaS service providers

Secured virtual desktops through policy restrictions

Windows group policies and registry restrictions

General restrictions

Completely locked down or restricted service provider environments

Further resources

Citrix® policy restrictions

Further resources

Virtual desktops through low bandwidth remote and mobile user connections

Remote access from home PC broadband networks

Remote office WAN connections

Mobile users Wi-Fi and telecom network connections

High Performance Computing applications

High-performance computing and Citrix XenDesktop

NVidia GRID vGPUs and CUDA

Advanced fine-tuning of XenDesktop®

Virtual display

Citrix® display delivery technologies

Progressive display

Legacy graphics mode - adaptive display

H.264-enhanced SuperCodec

Desktop Composition Redirection

The HDX display delivery technologies comparison

Integrating local applications

Business use cases for Local App Access

Configuring Local App Access

Enabling Local App Access

Enabling only local applications access that is published in Studio

Current limitations of Local App Access

Controlling seamless and in-browser access

Provisioning instant virtual desktop sessions

Summary

7. Networking for XenDesktop®

The role of networking in XenDesktop®

Overview - extranet access via NetScaler connecting to virtual desktops

Phase 1 - User authentication and resources enumeration

Phase 2 - Virtual desktop allocation and connection establishment

Communication ports used across XenDesktop®

XenDesktop® and layers of networking

Networking in a traditional desktop environment

Networking in virtual environments

Windows networking

Challenges in configuring networking for XenDesktop®

Network layer components and configuration

External networking

The domain name provider

External DNS

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates

How Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates secure communication

Third-party Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates

Installing and binding an SSL certificate for your website

Planning IP addresses and VLANs

Types of IP addresses

Public addresses

Private addresses

Choosing public and private IP addresses

Virtual LAN (VLAN)

Firewall

Network Address Translation (NAT)

Port forwarding/redirection

Port overloading

Real-time monitoring

Audit logging

Configuration replication

Citrix® NetScaler

Components and architecture

NetScaler deployment and its working

NetScaler features

Global server load balancing (GSLB)

Load balancing

NetScaler Gateway

The role of NetScaler

Citrix® CloudBridge

The CloudBridge architecture

Web proxy / filter servers

Virtualization layer network components

The host/management network

NIC teaming/bonding

The virtual machine network

Full Internet access

Windows networking

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

DHCP for multiple networks and subnets

Configuring DHCP

Linking DHCP and DNS

DHCP for XenDesktop®

DHCP for XenDesktop® using provisioning services

Active Directory (AD) and domain membership

Virtual desktops and AD membership

Domain Name System (DNS)

Configuring DNS

DNS zones

Types of DNS zones

Classification of DNS zones

Types of DNS entries

Features of Windows DNS

Virtual desktops and DNS

Internal SSL certificates

IIS hosting StoreFront sites

Windows Firewall

Windows Firewall and XenDesktop®

Citrix® recommended network performance tuning

Summary

8. Monitoring and Troubleshooting XenDesktop®

Overview of monitoring and troubleshooting XenDesktop®

A deep dive into monitoring and troubleshooting XenDesktop®

Citrix® Director and EdgeSight®

Architecture

The Citrix® monitoring service

Installation

EdgeSight® performance management

EdgeSight® network analysis

Configuring EdgeSight® network analysis in Director

Linking the Insight Center virtual appliance with NetScaler

Linking Director Server with Insight Center

Configuring Delegated Administration

XenDesktop®'s built-in administrator roles for Director

Using Director and EdgeSight®

The dashboard view

The trends view

The filters view

Predefined filter views

Custom filter views

Shadowing user sessions

Monitoring licenses

Citrix® Studio

Common tasks for testing the XenDesktop® environment

Search

Configuration Logging

Enabling and disabling Configuration Logging

Accessing Configuration Logging data from Director

Creating reports from Configuration Logging

Citrix® Insight Services (CIS)

Citrix® Collection Tools for Citrix® Insight Services

Using Citrix® Insight Services

Citrix® Scout for XenDesktop® diagnostics

Included Citrix® tools

Key data points collected

Running Citrix® Scout

PowerShell command-lets

Citrix® troubleshooting tools for XenDesktop®

How to troubleshoot XenDesktop® issues

Refer to the right documentation

Understand the XenDesktop® architecture and its setup in your environment

Understanding the nature of issues

Citrix® HDX monitor

Features of HDX monitor

HDX technologies supported

Using HDX monitor

Citrix® Diagnostics Toolkit

Suite of tools included

XDDBDiag

XDPing

CDF Control

Citrix® Print Detective

XenDesktop® Site Checker

Troubleshooting knowledge for issues out of the scope of XenDesktop

Network tracing for external access issues

Troubleshooting at the virtualization layer

Troubleshooting at the Windows layer

Summary

9. XenDesktop® PowerShell SDK for Automation

PowerShell SDK for automation

The purpose of SDK

PowerShell and its capabilities

PowerShell and .NET framework

PowerShell and WMI

PowerShell and COM

PowerShell Remoting and WinRM

Target audience for PowerShell scripting

PowerShell for XenDesktop®

Role of automation for IT

Tools for developing automation using PowerShell SDK

Microsoft PowerShell ISE

PowerGUI

Visual Studio extensions

PowerShell tools

Citrix® Developer

The PowerShell community – CodePlex and PowerGUI

Using the XenDesktop® PowerShell SDK

Installation and configuration

Installing and configuring PowerShell

Installing and configuring XenDesktop® PowerShell SDK

Running SDK command-lets

Creating PowerShell scripts

Automation using PowerShell scripts

A deep dive into the XenDesktop® PowerShell SDK

Key notes about using PowerShell

Structure of the latest PowerShell SDK

Folder structure

PowerShell Module adoption

A complete reference of the PowerShell SDK

Troubleshooting and commonly used SDK command-lets

Get the license details

Get XenDesktop® Site details

Get XenDesktop® Site Services details

Test XenDesktop® Site services

Get the XenDesktop® database details

Get virtual desktop details and status

Get the XenDesktop® admin and user details

Summary

10. XenDesktop® and App-V Integration

Understanding the App-V infrastructure

The App-V components

Creating virtual applications using App-V

Delivering App-V applications using XenDesktop®

Installing the App-V client

Summary

11. XenDesktop® Licensing

Understanding Citrix® licensing

Microsoft licensing for virtual desktops

Discovering Citrix® XenDesktop® editions

Allocating Citrix® licenses

Summary

Index