Identifying components and roles
As of XenApp 7.5/7.6, there are several components we need to take into consideration when troubleshooting issues. Citrix administrators who have worked with previous versions of XenApp will find that some of the components have changed significantly after XenApp was moved to the FlexCast Management Architecture (FMA). With the older Independent Management Architecture (IMA) being dropped in favor of FlexCast, some of the core concepts have changed; farms are now called delivery sites, delivery controllers have replaced zone and data collectors, and worker groups have been replaced by session machine catalogs and delivery groups. The Citrix data store, which previously would use Microsoft Access database, is now a proper Microsoft SQL Server database.
We will discuss the following components of a XenApp site:
- Database
- Delivery controller
- License server
- Studio
- Virtual delivery agent
- Hypervisor
- StoreFront
- Receiver
- NetScaler Gateway
The database component
A major rewrite...
