This document summarizes Citrix CloudBridge and Branch Repeater, which provide a unified platform to accelerate applications across public and private networks. Key benefits include accelerating desktops, applications and multimedia to branch offices and mobile users, improving WAN performance, and optimizing XenDesktop and XenApp. Features include HDX acceleration, QoS, protocol support including TCP and SSL, security, integrated Windows services, and flexible management. It is available as virtual or physical appliances in various models.
Citrix Desktop Master Class – What’s New in XenApp/XenDesktop 7.11 - Sept 2016Lee Bushen
The document provides an agenda and overview of the XenApp and XenDesktop 7.11 release from Citrix. The agenda includes introductions, Microsoft alignment features, user experience features, management enhancements, and a demonstration of new features. Key highlights include improved support for Windows Server 2016, expanded App-V integration with isolation groups, improved profile management, self-service password reset, adaptive display v2, hardware video encoding with NVIDIA GPUs, and new releases for the Linux VDA and anonymous sessions.
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This document provides an overview of Citrix XenDesktop, including its history, products, editions, architecture, and installation/configuration. It describes how XenDesktop enables desktop virtualization and delivers complete Windows desktop experiences to any user from any device. Key components are discussed, such as XenDesktop, XenServer, and various editions. Requirements and supported operating systems/SQL servers are also outlined.
Citrix Desktop Master Class – New in XA/XD 7.9, Skype for Business, HDX Raspb...Lee Bushen
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2f_GbelkFs
Join technology experts Lee Bushen and Patrick Irwin as they unpack the latest XenApp & XenDesktop news from Citrix Synergy 2016 with a special focus on Skype for Business.
- What’s New in XenApp & XenDesktop 7.9?
- Spotlight on Skype for Business Optimization, co-development with Microsoft
- What do the Microsoft partnership announcements from Synergy mean to you? Get the lowdown from Nabeel Youakim.
- Fancy some Raspberry Pi? ViewSonic talk about their revolutionary $99 Thin Client
Planning For Catastrophe with IBM WAS and IBM BPMWASdev Community
This document discusses planning for disaster recovery of WebSphere Application Server and IBM Business Process Manager applications across multiple data centers. It covers various disaster recovery architecture options including active/passive and different active/active models. Key considerations for recovering WebSphere Application Server and IBM BPM applications are discussed such as using backup/restore of configuration files, transaction log replay, and message queue recovery. The importance of having independent cells aligned with data center boundaries is emphasized to avoid a single failure impacting both sites.
Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 7.5 Architecture DeploymentHuy Pham
Desktop virtualization allows users to access virtual desktops and applications from any device. It provides Windows desktops, apps, and data as a service for every user through a high-definition user experience across any network. The solution includes application migration and lifecycle management tools. Citrix XenDesktop is an open, scalable platform that uses FlexCast to deliver virtual desktops and applications through various models depending on use cases.
Windows Server 2008 R2 is a minor update to Windows Server 2008 that provides improved features and management capabilities. Key areas of focus for Windows Server 2008 R2 include virtualization with enhanced Hyper-V capabilities like live migration, Remote Desktop Services improvements, management and administration enhancements through Windows PowerShell, and reliability/scalability with support for up to 256 logical processors. The optional R2 update model allows IT flexibility in upgrading without forcing an entire infrastructure update at once.
Windows Server 2008 provides scalability, security, and reliability for enterprise workloads. Key features include server virtualization with Hyper-V, presentation virtualization with RDS, live migration between servers, and boot from VHD files. RDS provides an integrated solution for remote desktop infrastructure with a single broker. Management tools are improved with Windows PowerShell and new virtual machine consoles. Performance and scalability are enhanced with support for up to 256 logical cores and high performance storage.
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Citrix CloudGateway 2.5 Technical Overview and TroubleshootingDavid McGeough
This is part of the Citrix Support Secrets Webinar Series.
CloudGateway is an enterprise mobility management solution that securely delivers mobile, web and Windows apps and data. This webinar will cover an overview of the features in CloudGateway 2.5, different options for deploying CloudGateway and troubleshooting. Join this webinar to learn about CloudGateway.
What you will learn:
- What is CloudGateway
- What’s new on CloudGateway 2.5
- Deployment scenarios
- Troubleshooting
This webinar took place on January 24th 2013, recording here
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/683430680
AAI-3281 Smarter Production with WebSphere Application Server ND Intelligent ...WASdev Community
WebSphere Application Server ND Intelligent Management provides capabilities to help address challenges of web tier complexity, application health uncertainty, availability issues, and over-provisioned servers. It offers dynamic routing, health management, application editions management, auto-scaling, and has been available since WebSphere Application Server ND version 8.5.0. These capabilities work to provide continuous availability during failures, updates, traffic surges and other issues through self-protecting, self-healing, self-managing, self-optimizing and self-configuring functions.
benefits of SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise EditionTobias Koprowski
This document contains information about a SQL Server 2008 R2 launch event, including details about the speaker. It provides the speaker's biography, listing their 12 years of experience in IT, focus areas including high availability and security, and certifications. It also lists the speaker's involvement in Microsoft programs, user groups, publishing, and technical support roles.
Windows Server 2008 R2 includes several new features and enhancements. It provides improved virtualization capabilities with Hyper-V including live migration and support for up to 64 logical processors. Management is simplified with new consoles like Active Directory Administration Center and PowerShell 2.0. Performance and scalability are increased with support for up to 256 logical processors and reduced memory footprint. New technologies like DirectAccess and BranchCache improve connectivity and performance for remote and branch offices.
What's New In Windows Server 2008 R2 For IT Pros - Extended EditionAmit Gatenyo
Windows Server 2008 R2 provides enhancements for IT administrators, including improved virtualization features for Hyper-V, new management tools with PowerShell and Active Directory Administrative Center, enhanced branch office performance with DirectAccess and BranchCache, and increased scalability and reliability. New features help reduce costs through more efficient server consolidation and management while increasing availability.
Windows Server 2008 R2 provides regular, compatible server releases with targeted innovations. It focuses on improvements to management, virtualization including live migration, scalability up to 256 cores, and reliability. New features include DirectAccess for remote access, BranchCache to improve branch office performance, and expanded remote desktop services.
This is my 75 minutes "highlights" presentation on what's new in WS2012 R2. It's not all encompassing - intended just to get across the key points of the core OS. It followed a "Cloud OS" keynote and preceded a "System Center hybrid cloud" presentation.
Hyper-V’s Virtualization Enhancements - EPC GroupEPC Group
This document discusses new features and enhancements in Hyper-V virtualization in Windows Server 2012. It addresses industry trends driving changes in IT including new apps, device proliferation, data explosion, and cloud computing. Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V aims to scale workloads cost effectively, build private clouds, and securely connect to cloud services. New features allow for improved scalability and performance including support for 64 virtual processors and 1TB RAM per VM. It also improves connectivity through features like shared nothing live migration, network virtualization, and identity federation across clouds. These enhancements help organizations respond quickly to business needs, control costs, and connect datacenters securely.
Nov 2014 2 blu pointe continuity cloudrar-master Ron_Roberts
This document discusses BluPointe's cloud backup and disaster recovery solutions. It outlines BluPointe's customer commitment of always providing free trials, training, certification, startup assistance and unlimited software licenses. The document also summarizes BluPointe's backup and recovery features, including support for various operating systems, applications, virtualization platforms, and disaster recovery options like virtual disaster recovery and bare metal recovery. Finally, it discusses BluPointe's upcoming product releases and enhancements in areas like protection, recovery, performance, usability and manageability.
AAI-1445 Managing Dynamic Workloads with WebSphere ND and in the CloudWASdev Community
This document discusses supporting dynamic workloads with WebSphere and in the cloud. It describes how WebSphere supports both traditional and new dynamic workloads through features like dynamic clusters, dynamic routing, Liberty profiles, and lightweight server collectives and clusters. It also discusses using intelligent management to enable auto-scaling of Liberty server instances and dynamic routing of workloads based on demand.
- Windows Server 2008 R2 aims to provide regular and compatible server releases through an R2 update model, allowing for feature enhancements and adapting to changing industry needs.
- It focuses on compatibility while enabling the latest server technologies, and emphasizes scalability, virtualization, management improvements, and synergies with the Windows client platform.
- Key areas of focus include virtualization, management automation through PowerShell, support for new hardware, and addressing trends like multi-core systems and 64-bit computing.
The document contains event log entries from Citrix services and applications. It includes information, warning, and error log entries related to services starting and stopping, license checks, configuration changes, virtual memory optimization, and HDX MediaStream for Flash. Issues include services not starting, database errors, license failures, and client incompatibility.
Design and build a Private Cloud for your Enterprise using a Scalable Architecture.
- Bridge IT and the Public Cloud
- Reduce Cost
- On-Demand Services
- Run Scalable Applications
- Handle Traffic Growth
- Meet Compliance Objectives
- Offer Operational Flexibility and Efficiency
VMworld 2013: Virtualized Network Services Model with VMware NSX VMworld
This document summarizes a presentation about VMware's NSX virtualized networking solution. It introduces NSX Edge gateways which provide routing, firewalling, load balancing, and VPN services. It discusses how NSX addresses the needs of cloud computing through automation, standard hardware, and a single management plane. Example use cases are shown. Key features of the NSX Edge including scalable performance are outlined. The document also briefly discusses NSX operations and management tools, and its deployment on VMware vCloud Hybrid Service.
The document discusses the Brocade Virtual ADX, a virtual application delivery controller (ADC) platform. It provides a full-featured ADC system with a virtual footprint that leverages Intel technology. It can run on standard hypervisors and be hosted on x86 servers to provide load balancing, application security, and other services. It uses a distributed multi-core architecture to scale performance elastically. The Brocade Virtual ADX supports various load balancing methods and application health checks. It also provides scripting, global load balancing, and other features to optimize application delivery in virtualized environments.
O Citrix NetScaler é um appliance de entrega de aplicativos Web totalmente integrado, disponível como um dispositivo de rede de hardware ou como um appliance virtualizado. Implementado diante de servidores da Web, o NetScaler envolve gerenciamento do tráfego de alta velocidade via balanceamento de carga e switching de conteúdo com aceleração de aplicativos, cache de conteúdo, aceleração SSL, firewall de aplicativos Web, otimização de rede e monitoramento do desempenho dos aplicativos.
This hands on workshop for OpenContrail will be led by Sreelakshmi Sarva & Aniket Daptari.
This is a labs session so we will have hard RSVP limits. Please RSVP only if you are confident that you will be able to attend.
About Sreelakshmi Sarva
Sree is currently working as part of solution engineering team at Juniper’s Contrail team. She is responsible for delivering & managing SDN solutions & partnerships relating to Contrail. She has been with Juniper for the last 13 years working on various Routing, Switching, Network programmability & virtualization platforms. Prior to Juniper, She worked at Nortel networks in the Systems Engineering group. Sree received her Masters in Computer Science from University of Texas at Dallas and Bachelor’s in Computer Science from India.
About Aniket Daptari
Aniket is currently working as part of Juniper Networks' Contrail Cloud Solutions team. He is responsible for delivering SDN solutions and technology partnerships related to Contrail. He has been with Juniper for the last 3 years working on various Network programmability & virtualization platforms. Prior to Juniper, he worked at Cisco Systems in the Internet Systems Business Unit (Catalyst 6500). Aniket received his Masters in Computer Science from University of Southern California and a graduate certificate in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.
Course Abstract
This session will be the first of a series of OpenContrail hands-on tutorials for developers who want to get deep into OpenContrail code.
This “Basic OpenContrail Programming” Hands-on Session will focus on making developers proficient in writing and contributing code for our OpenContrail Project.
Session will cover the following areas
1) Contrail Overview
· Use Cases
· Architecture recap
2) Contrail Hands on
· Demo + Hands on - Configuration , VN, VM, Network Policies etc
· DevStack introduction
This document summarizes John Rhoton's presentation on optimizing cloud computing with IPv6. The presentation provided an overview of cloud computing and IPv6, discussed how IPv6 benefits cloud computing by enabling massive scalability without network address translation (NAT), and allowing for seamless user mobility and automatic deployment. It also covered how IPv6 supports key attributes of cloud computing like always-on connectivity and unified communications. Finally, the presentation addressed solutions from HP to optimize cloud computing with IPv6.
Cloud computing provides on-demand access to shared computing resources like networks, servers, storage, applications and services over the internet. It aims to address growing IT needs like increasing server capacity, reducing costs through pay-per-use models, and integrating external web applications. Cloud computing exhibits characteristics of utility computing, virtualization, and elastic scalability. The key service models are Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Cloud deployment models include private, public, community and hybrid clouds.
Aryaka provides a network as a service that offers TCP optimization, quality of service controls, and a global private network to deliver consistent performance. Their SD-WAN technology enables link aggregation and reduced complexity at branch offices. The service integrates cloud/SaaS applications and provides network and application visibility through a customer portal. Customers experience faster branch office connectivity, cloud access, and deployments compared to MPLS or IP-VPN.
Comcast Business offers an SD-WAN solution that combines application-aware routing, secure VPN capabilities, and a stateful firewall into an integrated solution. It enables enterprises to deploy applications faster, manage bandwidth demands efficiently, and improve performance. Comcast's SD-WAN is delivered over its ActiveCore platform, a network-based SDN platform that provides dynamic scalability and service chaining to support business performance. SD-WAN provides an attractive alternative to traditional hardware-based architectures by making network traffic routing software-driven, minimizing physical equipment needs.
Why all clouds are not created equal enterprise cloud, public cloud, carrier cloud strategic white paper. Cloud computing technology brings an unprecedented level of independence and liberation in deploying applications. Applications are no longer tied to dedicated hardware, yet clouds vary significantly in their capabilities and their cost. This paper helps readers understand the differences between enterprise clouds and public clouds, and explains the advances available in carrier clouds.
IT Services Firm Improves Data Center and Branch Performance
Sycor leverages WAAS solution to bolster central WAN security and control, restore branch application performance
DeskStream’s platform offers flexible deployment methods, enables rapid deployment even on the existing infrastructure, with currently available tools and expertise to maintain the rollout.
Slides der Präsentation von Simeon Bosshard, Citrix, am Citrix Day 2014 von Digicomp.
Entdecken Sie mit uns die neuen Funktionen der CloudBrige Version 7.3. Unter anderem: Unterstützung für HDX Inisght, Optimierung für RPC über HTTPS, Video Caching Pre-Population sowie Erweiterungen in den Bereichen IPv6 und Logging-Möglichkeiten.
OneFabric is an architecture from Enterasys that provides a unified network environment through centralized management and embedded intelligence in network devices. This results in simple, predictable, and reliable application delivery across the enterprise. OneFabric enables rapid scaling of networks to support business growth without impacting performance. It provides role-based policy controls and guarantees service level agreements while integrating with multi-vendor networks.
KLERITY is a cloud-native solution framework for monitoring, assurance and analytics of 5G standalone (SA) networks and Internet of Things (IoT) services. It consists of containerized network functions and applications that provide transparency and visibility across networks, services, devices, and applications. This enables quicker identification of service issues and their true root causes. In comparison to traditional solutions, KLERITY more easily detects and resolves defects across complex domains through collection, analysis and correlation of events.
Citrix Synergy 2014 - Syn228 What's new in Citrix CloudPlatformCitrix
The document discusses Citrix CloudPlatform and how it enables enterprises and service providers to deliver desktops, applications, and infrastructure as cloud services. It outlines the challenges of current approaches around complexity, unpredictability, and costs. CloudPlatform provides a cloud management platform that automates provisioning and allows self-service access while optimizing resource usage and costs. Examples are given of how CloudPlatform supports hybrid cloud models and integrates with solutions like XenDesktop for desktop virtualization in the cloud.
Similar to CloudBridge and Repeater Datasheet (20)
The document discusses eG Innovations' performance management monitoring solution. It provides an overview of eG and how it can monitor virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments. eG offers deep visibility into all layers of VDI, including the virtualization platform, connection broker, profile server, and individual user sessions. It monitors over 150 applications and infrastructure components to provide comprehensive performance monitoring of complex VDI environments.
Good news from the Worldwide Consulting Desktop & Apps (DnA) team! We’ve just finished updating theVirtual Desktop Handbook for XenDesktop 7, StoreFront 2.0 and XenServer 6.2.
The Virtual Desktop Handbook is an architect’s guide to desktop virtualization. It provides you with the methodology, experience and best practices you need to successfully design your own desktop virtualization solution.
Updates in this release include:
Resource requirements for Windows 8 and Server 2012
XD controller sizing
XenDesktop 7 policy guidelines
Database sizing for XenDesktop 7
SQL 2012 chapter
StoreFront 2.0 chapter
32-bit or 64-bit desktop OS guidance
Desktop group & StoreFront integration
In addition, we’ve also included a Citrix policy quick reference spreadsheet so that you can quickly identify default, baseline and template settings from XenDesktop 5 / XenApp 6 all the way up to XenDesktop 7. Thanks go out to Michael Havens, Maria Chang and Uzair Ali for creating this great reference spreadsheet.
I hope you find this handbook useful during your next desktop virtualization project.
And we’re not done yet, future updates will include:
Bandwidth
Hyper-V 2012
PVS 7
User data
And more …
The Virtual Desktop Handbook is not the only resource to guide you through your desktop virtualization journey. Citrix also provides Project Accelerator; an interactive online tool creating customized sizing and design recommendations based on the methodology, best practices and expert advice identified within this handbook.
You can still reach the XenDesktop 5 handbook using the old URL – CTX136546
Andy Baker – Architect
Worldwide Consulting
Desktop & Apps Team
http://blogs.citrix.com/2013/10/10/new-xendesktop-7-handbook-published/
This document provides guidance on designing network configurations for Citrix XenServer. It discusses basic XenServer networking concepts, such as connecting virtual machines to networks. It then presents several sample networking scenarios and considerations for specifying networking requirements. The document also offers recommendations for designing XenServer networks, including using the distributed virtual switch, network redundancy, and bonding. Additionally, it covers designing storage networks and verifying XenServer networking configurations.
1. XenMobile allows you to manage mobile devices, apps, and data through its main components: NetScaler Gateway, XenMobile Device Manager, XenMobile App Edition, MDX Toolkit, and Worx apps.
2. You can deploy the XenMobile components in various configurations depending on your needs, such as deploying only NetScaler Gateway and App Controller to enable remote access to apps, or deploying all components for comprehensive device, app, and data management.
3. A common deployment involves NetScaler Gateway for secure remote access, Device Manager for mobile device management, and App Controller for mobile app and data access, with optional integrations with StoreFront and ShareFile.
This document discusses how Citrix CloudBridge can optimize video delivery in XenApp and XenDesktop environments through features like video caching, disk-based compression, and Quality of Service (QoS). Video caching improves performance by serving cached video over LAN speeds. Disk-based compression reduces bandwidth usage by eliminating duplicate video content. QoS allows administrators to classify and prioritize different types of video traffic to control bandwidth utilization. Together these features enhance the user experience and reduce WAN bandwidth consumption of video streams in virtual desktop and application environments.
Citrix CloudPlatform is a turn-key cloud solution that provides fast time to value through a simple one-package installation. It is proven to scale beyond 40,000 hosts per region and multiple regions, providing users virtually unlimited computing resources on demand. It offers granular tracking and metering of resource usage for showback/chargeback. The solution is hypervisor and storage agnostic, and supports enterprise-grade networking and security for multi-tenant environments through logical and physical isolation.
Cloud portal business manager product overviewNuno Alves
CloudPortal Business Manager is a cloud services delivery platform that allows organizations to aggregate, simplify the delivery of, and provide self-service access to internal, external, and third party cloud and IT services through a centralized catalog. It automates and streamlines provisioning, billing, user management and other operational aspects of managing cloud services. Key benefits include empowering users with self-service access, delivering any type of cloud service, and helping organizations and service providers transition to and manage an IT-as-a-Service model.
Reference architecture dir and es - finalNuno Alves
Citrix Director with EdgeSight provides a complete troubleshooting window to quickly resolve issues around desktops or applications. Previous versions of XenApp leveraged EdgeSight, while XenDesktop deployments looked to Director for assistance. Starting in XenDesktop 7, these two great technologies have been merged into one central point for troubleshooting.
The purpose of this document will be to provide you an overviewof all the necessary parts required to give your company a holistic view. With this being a new product with new features, this document will provide administrators the tools to feel comfortable moving forward with monitoring of a XenDesktop 7 deployment.
This document will cover the configuration of the Director server, as well as how to interface with the Insight Center provided from our NetScaler product line. For more of an overview of the EdgeSight product, please reference the whitepapersfound at www.citrix.com/xendesktop.
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX139051
Provisioning server high_availability_considerations2Nuno Alves
The purpose of this document is to give the target audience an overview about the critical components of a Citrix
Provisioning Server infrastructure with regards to a high availability implementation. These considerations focus on the
following areas:
• Virtual Disk (vDisk) Storage
• Write Cache Placement
• SQL Database
• TFTP Service
• DHCP Service
Xd planning guide - storage best practicesNuno Alves
This document provides guidelines for planning storage infrastructure for Citrix XenDesktop environments. It discusses organizational requirements like alignment with IT strategy and high availability needs. Technical requirements covered include performance needs like typical I/O rates and functional requirements like supported protocols. The document recommends avoiding bottlenecks, choosing appropriate RAID levels based on read/write ratios, validating storage performance, and involving storage vendors in planning.
This document is an introduction to Disk Storage technologies and its terminology. Within this
document basic disk and storage architectures as well as storage protocols and common fault
tolerance technologies will be discussed. It is not intended as a comprehensive guide for planning
and configuring storage infrastructures, nor as a storage training handbook.
Due to scope, this guide provides some device-specific information. For additional device- specific
configuration, Citrix suggests reviewing the storage vendor‘s documentation, the storage vendor‘s
hardware compatibility list, and contacting the vendor‘s technical support if necessary.
For design best practices and planning guidance, Citrix recommends reviewing the Storage Best
Practices and Planning Guide (http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX130632)
This document provides an overview of how XenServer manages storage supplied to virtual machines. It describes how Linux views physical disks and partitions, as well as logical volume management and network file systems. The key concepts covered include storage repositories, virtual disk images, storage attributes, and different storage types like local, NFS, Fibre Channel, and appliance-based storage. The target audience is IT specialists who need to understand XenServer's storage concepts and terminology for planning virtualized infrastructures.
Citrix XenDesktop 7 provides a unified framework for virtual desktop and application solutions based on a 5-layer model. The blueprint details architectures for standardized desktops, customizable desktops, and applications. It recommends Machine Creation Services for image delivery and defines policies, personalization settings, and control components to meet requirements for different user groups accessing resources from various locations.
XenDesktop relies on the hypervisor for many core functions, including VM creation, power operations, performance and redundancy. Therefore, it is important that you take the time to design an appropriate hypervisor infrastructure (XenServer, Hyper-V or vSphere). Otherwise, you may experience performance, functionality or even reliability issues.
Most information required to design a XenDesktop deployment on your chosen hypervisor platform is available publicly, but it can be hard to find since it’s spread across a multitude of knowledge base articles or white papers. In order to simplify and speed-up the design process, we’re in the process of consolidating the information that you need into a single document and augmenting it with recommendations and best practices. We’ve just finished incorporating the Hyper-V 2008 R2 and SCVMM 2012 planning section into the latest release of the Citrix Virtual Desktop Handbook, which includes important design decisions relating to this hypervisor, for example:
Selecting and sizing the right physical hardware for virtual machines
Knowing what storage options available for Hyper-V 2008 R2
What type of networks to build on the Hyper-V host
How to size the SCVMM servers
Designing a highly available SCVMM solution
Planning an effective failover cluster
The products covered in this current release of the handbook include XenDesktop 5.6, XenApp 6.5, Provisioning Services 6.x and XenClient Enterprise 4.5. A version of the Virtual Desktop Handbook covering XenDesktop 7.x, Provisioning Services 7, Hyper V 2012 R2 and SCVMM 2012 R2 is in the works with an initial release scheduled later in Q4. As always your feedback is welcomed.
http://blogs.citrix.com/2013/09/05/citrix-virtual-desktop-handbook-hyper-v-update/
New eBook! Citrix howto build an all star app desktop virtualization teamNuno Alves
This document discusses how to build an effective team for an app and desktop virtualization project. It outlines four key competencies (prepare, assess and design, deploy, support) and the skills needed for each. It also provides principles for building a successful team, such as finding people with the right attitude, creating a learning culture, getting executive buy-in, and leveraging free resources. The overall message is that the people on the team and the skills they have are critical to the success of an app and desktop virtualization project.
CTX138217 - IntelliCache Reduction in IOPS: XenDesktop 5.6 FP1 on XenServer 6.1 - Citrix Knowledge Center http://ow.ly/o3Ma4
The purpose of this document is to provide testing results based on MCS-delivered streamed virtual desktops leveraging IntelliCache
This document provides guidelines for planning and designing a Citrix StoreFront infrastructure. StoreFront plays a critical role in user authentication, resource enumeration, and aggregation. Key recommendations include:
- Deploy at least two StoreFront servers and use an intelligent load balancer like NetScaler for high availability and load balancing.
- Implement SSL certificates to encrypt communication between Receiver and StoreFront. Also consider encrypting backend traffic between StoreFront and XenApp/XenDesktop controllers.
- Configure multiple controllers per XenApp farm/XenDesktop site and use load balancing for large environments or high login loads.
- Configure highly available internal and external beacon points to determine user network location.
- Use application
NetScaler Deployment Guide for XenDesktop7Nuno Alves
This guide demonstrates how to deploy Citrix NetScaler in conjunction with Citrix XenDesktop 7 with a focus on both simplicity in configuration and advanced features not easily delivered with other products. This guide shows how to provision the XenDesktop 7 infrastructure, the NetScaler appliance and NetScaler Insight Center services to extend Citrix virtual desktop infrastructure and services to remote users in small to medium-size enterprises.
This document outlines the migration path from CloudGateway 2.6 to XenMobile 8.5. The architecture will move from StoreFront being the main authentication front-end to AppController being the main authentication front-end. The migration involves upgrading infrastructure components like NetScaler Gateway, StoreFront, and AppController in a specified order. Client devices then need to be upgraded to WorxHome and new versions of Receiver to work with the new architecture.
1. Citrix CloudBridge and Branch Repeater Datasheet
CloudBridge and
Branch Repeater
Accelerates, controls and
optimizes applications to all
locations—datacenter, branch Key benefits
offices, public and private clouds • Accelerates services—
desktops, applications and
and mobile users multimedia—to branch office
and mobile users
• Improves the performance of
any WAN that exhibits latency,
congestion and packet loss
Citrix® CloudBridge™ and Branch Repeater™ provide a unified platform that accelerates • Significantly improves
applications across public and private networks to provide superior application performance XenDesktop and Citrix®
and end user experience. CloudBridge and Branch Repeater offer a broad base of features XenApp™ capacity and
performance over WANs
including protocol acceleration support, market-leading VDI acceleration for Citrix® XenApp
• 2000 appliance accelerates
and XenDesktop, secure and optimized between clouds and sophisticated quality of service 5,000 simultaneous XenDesktop
(QoS). CloudBridge and Branch Repeater combine these key technologies with extensive sessions
• Simplifies IT with integrated
bandwidth and application usage reporting for cloud-enabled application optimization. Citrix
appliance options to reduce
technology optimizes the user experience while giving IT fine-grained control over public and server footprint
private network resources. • Enables IT agility with flexible
deployment options offered by
Available as a virtual or physical appliance, CloudBridge and Branch Repeater provide physical and virtual appliances
• Securely extends the
deployment choices that help improve the user experience, reduce IT capital and operating enterprise data center network
costs by enabling on-demand network resource provisioning. CloudBridge and Branch (L2 or L3) to the public clouds
• Accelerates the cloud
Repeater evolve network-centric WAN optimization controller (WOC) infrastructure into a connection to maximize
service-centric solution. distributed application
performance
Features
HDX™ WAN optimization
• Improves XenDesktop and XenApp response time and maximizes network bandwidth utilization by optimizing the flow of
WAN traffic to mitigate the effects of distance and impaired networks
• Reduces XenDesktop and XenApp bandwidth consumption by applying optimal compression techniques based on traffic
characteristics, infrastructure capabilities and network conditions.
• Orchestrates with XenDesktop and XenApp to provide intelligent acceleration of the Citrix delivery protocol by sensing and
responding to network and traffic conditions
• Allows users to define which types of XenDesktop and XenApp workflows receive the highest priority
• Stores XenApp streamed applications locally in the branch for rapid delivery.
• Synchronizes the application whenever there is an update or a patch available so that branch users always get the latest version
citrix.com
2. Citrix CloudBridge Datasheet
QoS
• Provides intelligent and adaptive mechanisms that not only optimize traffic, but also guarantee QoS and quality of experience
(QoE) by enabling network administrators to assess network usage, classify apps and services traffic, control bandwidth
consumption using granular L2-L7 policies, monitor network congestion and delays affecting user experience and remediate
those problems quickly to minimize support calls
• Identifies and prioritizes delivery of virtual desktops and virtual apps to a branch based on user group (e.g., the XenDesktop
group), application (published or non-published), branch location and other parameters.
Protocol support
• Manages TCPand SCPS flows
• Accelerates any TCP-based application including file transfers, e-mail, SSL, business applications such as enterprise
resource planning and customer relationship management, computer-aided design solutions, data backup and replication
• Identifies and accelerates the most widely deployed Microsoft applications that branch and mobile users access, including
file sharing (CIFS, SMBv2, signed SMB v1/v2), Exchange® (including encrypted MAPI and Exchange 2010) and
SharePoint® (HTTP/HTTPS)
• Prioritizes mission-critical traffic by aligning bandwidth utilization with business needs to ensure no change in application
performance occurs during periods of severe congestion
• Mitigates TCP performance penalties from network latency, congestion and packet loss while simultaneously reducing WAN
bandwidth utilization and eliminating redundant traffic
Security and data protection
• Accelerates encrypted XenDesktop and XenApp traffic (basic, advanced/RC5, SSL), including ICA, and secure web
applications while maintaining the highest levels of security
• Encrypts disk compression history using AES-256 to help prevent theft of sensitive data and support compliance with
security mandates and regulations
• Interoperates with Citrix NetScaler Gateway™ appliances and the secure access plug-in for Citrix Receiver™ to help
optimize all traffic within the secure VPN for remote and mobile users
Integrated Windows® services
• Natively integrates branch acceleration and optimization with essential branch services (file, print, DHCP, DNS, WINS,
AD, DFS) powered by Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 R2
• Allows IT to securely deploy an Active Directory® database at branch offices using a read-only domain controller
• Acts as a streaming server for Microsoft® App-V and a secondary site for Microsoft® System Center Configuration
Manager, thus eliminating the need for dedicated servers
• Includes a management pack for Microsoft® System Center Operations Manager 2007 and supports Windows
management instrumentation to leverage existing server management tools and expertise
Flexible and centralized management
• Enables network administrators and operations teams to easily control the entire CloudBridge infrastructure from a
single, unified console
• Offers simple configuration, replication and software upgrades across multiple appliances.
• Provides multiple conduits for day-to-day operation including a web-based GUI and a scriptable command line interface
• Generates real-time and historical reports to help gain a comprehensive understanding of system-wide performance
gains, as well as alarm and activity information through the built-in GUI, logs, syslog and SNMP traps
• Centralized licensing enables network administrators to deploy, manage and consume licenses from a central Citrix license
server, simplifying branch deployments
Plug-and-play for any network
• Automatically discovers remote peer appliances and includes application service profiles to help you instantly identify
and optimize common enterprise traffic
• Preserves full TCP/IP headers, VLAN tags and QoS markings, requiring no changes to existing networking equipment,
security devices or traffic monitoring tools
• Offers maximum flexibility with a choice of inline, web cache communication protocol or policy-based routing
deployment, along with the option to deploy appliance pairs spanning redundant WAN links for high-availability of
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3. Citrix CloudBridge Datasheet
networks
Platforms Versions Options
CloudBridge 600 series 2-port Copper Bypass NIC
CloudBridge 600-001
Deployed in branch offices to accelerate
Compact 1U appliance for WAN links up to 1 Mbps
and optimize WAN traffic and provide
and 10 HDX sessions
branch to cloud connectivity.
CloudBridge 600-002
Compact 1U appliance for WAN links up to 2 Mbps
and 20 HDX sessions
CloudBridge 600-010
Compact 1U appliance for WAN links up to 10 Mbps
and 100 HDX sessions.
CloudBridge with Windows Server 700 2-port Copper Bypass NIC
series CloudBridge with Windows Server 700-001
Deployed in branch offices to provide a Compact 1U appliance for WAN links up to 1 Mbps
complete branch-in-a-box by natively and 10 HDX sessions with Windows Server 2008 R2
integrating branch acceleration, cloud
connectivity and optimization with
CloudBridge with Windows Server 700-002
essential Windows services and
Compact 1U appliance for WAN links up to 2 Mbps
management.
and 20 HDX sessions with Windows Server 2008 R2
Includes a fully licensed and activated
version of the Windows Server operating
system. Branch Repeater with Windows Server 700-010
Compact 1U appliance for WAN links up to 10 Mbps
and 100 HDX sessions with Windows Server 2008
R2
CloudBridge 2000 series
Deployed in small and medium CloudBridge 2000-010
enterprises or large branches and Compact 1U appliance for WAN links up to 10 Mbps
regional datacenters. and 50 HDX sessions. Supports up to 250
CloudBridge Plug-ins.
CloudBridge 2000-020
Compact 1U appliance for WAN links up to 20 Mbps
and 100 HDX sessions. Supports up to 750
CloudBridge Plug-ins.
CloudBridge 2000-050
Compact 1U appliance for WAN links up to 50 Mbps
and 300 HDX sessions. Supports up to 1,000
CloudBridge Plug-ins.
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