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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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Worker groups


Worker groups are a collection of XenApp servers.

A worker group can contain any number of servers from the same farm it belongs to. It can also be empty. A server can belong to different worker groups.

With worker groups you can:

  • Publish an application to a group of servers and decide how to balance incoming requests among them

  • Filter Citrix policies so their settings are applied only to specific servers

  • Assign the same load evaluator to a group of servers

Creating a worker group

To create a worker group, right-click on the Worker Groups node in Citrix AppCenter, and select Create worker group.

You need to give a name to the new worker group, an optional description, and select the source of the servers:

  • Active Directory Containers

  • Active Directory Server Groups

  • Farm Servers

A worker group can either be static or dynamic. If you choose Farm Servers, you can manually add one or more servers to your farm. Choosing an Active Directory option instead lets you "link" the worker group to an...

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