Citrix® XenApp® 7.x Performance Essentials -- Table of Contents -- Citrix® XenApp® 7.x Performance Essentials -- Credits -- Notice -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Instant updates on new Packt books -- 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.