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Citrix XenApp Performance Essentials

You're reading from   Citrix XenApp Performance Essentials A practical guide for tuning and optimizing the performance of XenApp farms using real-world examples

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782170440
Length 126 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Luca Dentella Luca Dentella
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Preferential Load Balancing


With load evaluators, you can change how XenApp evaluates the load of servers or applications. Load evaluator rules are based on performance indicators (CPU, memory, paging, and so on), not on the importance of your users.

Using Preferential Load Balancing, you can assign importance levels (Low, Normal, or High) to users and applications. Users or applications with higher importance level receive more computing resources.

Note

Preferential Load Balancing is a feature available only with a Platinum license

Preferential Load Balancing calculates the resource allotment for each session, considering both user and application importance levels.

Enabling Preferential Load Balancing

To use Preferential Load Balancing, you first need to enable the feature with a server policy:

Enabling Preferential Load Balancing

Then, you can change your users' importance with the creation of different user policies:

Assigning High importance with user policy

Finally, you can change the importance...

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