Getting Started with Citrix XenApp? 7.6电子书

Getting Started with Citrix XenApp® 7.6

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Getting Started with Citrix XenApp® 7.6

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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. Why Citrix XenApp® – Making the Case for App Virtualization

Understanding virtualization

Application virtualization

Understanding Remote Desktop Services

Introducing Citrix XenApp®

Design transformation in 7.x

New features in XenApp® 7.6

Application delivery models in XenApp® 7.6

The user logon process

Citrix® licensing

Microsoft licensing

Other components

XenApp® supportability

XenApp® certifications

Summary

2. Designing a Citrix® Solution to Fit Your Needs

Project planning

Reference Architectures

Designing XenApp® for an enterprise

Goals

Users

Concurrency rate

Active Directory considerations

User location

Devices and peripherals

Networks

Storage

Profiles

Citrix® Profile Management

Folder Redirection

Core applications

Printing

Creating your first architecture

The host hardware

The VM infrastructure

Host A

Host B

Host C

Resource allocation

Microsoft licensing

Citrix® licensing

Examples from the IT field

Summary

3. Preparing Your System for XenApp® Deployment

Control layer

XenApp® Delivery Controller

Citrix® Studio

Citrix® Director

Citrix® License Server

SQL Server

SQL Server mirroring

SQL Server clustered instances

AlwaysOn Availability Groups

Database permissions

Database collation

Citrix Provisioning Services™

Access layer

Citrix® StoreFront™

NetScaler VPX™

Citrix Receiver™

Resource layer

Server OS VDA

Hardware layer

Host requirements

Domain infrastructure requirements

Summary

4. Installing and Configuring Citrix XenApp®

Creating a VM in XenCenter®

Installing the Citrix XenApp® 7.6 Delivery Controller

Site setup

Remote PC access

Scale your deployment – existing site

Installing Citrix License Server 11.12.1

Configuring Citrix XenApp® 7.6

Hypervisor support

XenApp® Service Account

Securing the host connection with SSL

Configuring the Delivery Controller

Machine catalogs

Delivery Groups

Policies

Logging

Configuration

Joining a second controller to the XenApp® site

Summary

5. Installing and Configuring Citrix® StoreFront™

Installing Citrix StoreFront™

Configuring Citrix StoreFront™

SSL certificates

Setting up the StoreFront™ site

Configuring authentication methods

Joining a second ary server to the StoreFront™ deployment

Testing the StoreFront™ user access

Summary

6. Installing and Configuring NetScaler Gateway™

Installing the NetScaler Gateway VPX™

Configuring the NetScaler Gateway VPX™

Licensing your NetScaler® appliance

Basic modes and settings

Configuring High Availability

Configuring the LDAP authentication

Adding a Subnet IP

Managing SSL certificates

Configuring session policies and profiles

Creating a virtual server

Summary

7. Load Balancing with Citrix® NetScaler®

Configuring Citrix NetScaler® for load balancing

Network requirements

Verifying settings and licensing

Obtaining SSL certificates

Adding StoreFront™ servers in NetScaler®

Creating Service Groups

Configuring a load balancing VIP

Testing NetScaler® load balancing

Summary

8. Building Your First XenApp® Farm – Machine Creation Services

Explaining Machine Creation Services

Preparing your master image

Designing your master image VM

Configuring your master image for Citrix XenApp®

Installing the Citrix® VDA on the master VM

Building XenApp® Catalogs with MCS

Adding, updating, and deleting VMs with MCS

What is the maintenance mode, anyway?

Summary

9. Building Your First XenApp® Farm – Provisioning Services™

Getting started with PVS

Single image management

The power of read-only

Scalability

Infrastructure needs

Licensing

MCS versus PVS

Designing the PVS environment

Write caching in PVS

Building the PVS infrastructure

Installing Citrix® PVS

Configuring Citrix® PVS

Configuring the PVS target device software

Running the XenDesktop® setup wizard in PVS

Summary

10. Administering a XenApp® Environment – Application Management

Application delivery – hosted apps

Creating Delivery Groups

Updating hosted applications – MCS

Updating hosted applications – PVS

Accessing hosted applications via NetScaler Gateway™

Accessing hosted applications via StoreFront™

App-V integration

Summary

11. Administering a XenApp® Environment – Server Management

RDS licensing

Citrix® Profile Management

So, why UPM profiles?

Configuring profile management in a XenApp® environment

Profile Streaming

Taking advantage of Session Prelaunch and Session Linger

Facilitating XenApp® administration with Citrix® policies

How do you get started with Citrix® policies?

The role of Active Directory Group Policies

Disabling Administrative Tools

Hiding XenApp® system drives

Folder Redirection

The potential drawbacks of Folder Redirection

Upgrading VDA and PVS target device software

Upgrading the VDA via MCS

Upgrading the Citrix® Agents via PVS

There must be another way…

XenApp® permissions and delegated administration

Monitoring the XenApp® site

Summary

12. Printing

Printing in the Windows world

What happens in the background?

Windows Printing challenges

Printing in a Citrix® world

The fundamentals

Printer provisioning

Local printers versus network printers

The Citrix® Print Management service

Citrix® Printing policies

Autocreation

UPS and UPD

So, how do we deploy UPS, anyway?

Summary

13. Troubleshooting Tools, Tips, and Tricks

Troubleshooting methodology

Notes and templates

Research

Citrix® Knowledge Base

Citrix® discussion boards

Community websites

Case studies

Provisioning Services™

Case 1 – Retries

Case 2 – BNIStack errors

Case 3 – Target device boot failure

XenApp® and XenDesktop®

Case 1 – 1030 error when launching the app

Case 2 – RDS license errors

Case 3 – Citrix® Studio showing incorrect VM states

Summary

14. The Big Day – Going Live with Citrix XenApp®

Environment must-do's

Functional and performance testing

Database backups

NetScaler® configuration backup

Testing HA

NetScaler® HA

StoreFront™ HA

Delivery Controller HA

Production rollout strategies

Going virtual for the first time

Virtual-to-virtual migration

Upgrading to the latest version

Expansion of existing systems

Summary

Index