Citrix XenApp 7.x Performance Essentials: Tune and optimize the performance of your farms with the new improved XenApp® architecture.

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eBook Aug 2014 120 pages 1st Edition

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Citrix XenApp 7.x Performance Essentials

Chapter 2. Monitor and Optimize Infrastructure – Director and EdgeSight^®

The XenApp infrastructure you designed is now in production. The job of a system administrator starts now; the infrastructure must be monitored and maintained. In addition, problems that were unpredictable in the design phase might appear or new business requirements might arise, increasing the load of your site.

In this chapter, you'll learn about the following topics:

Performance counters available for the different components of your architecture
Using Citrix cmdlets for Microsoft PowerShell
Features offered by the new Citrix Director to monitor and troubleshoot
Optimizing your worker servers and load balancing the users among them

Citrix^® performance monitoring counters

When you install XenApp on a Windows server, the setup adds some new performance counters that you can access from Windows Performance Monitor. A regular analysis of performance data helps to identify possible bottlenecks or lack of free resources.

It's difficult to define which values are good for the counters in advance; this usually depends on the size of the infrastructure, the number of connected users, and so on. A better approach is to record the values during normal conditions (baselining) and compare the actual values with the baseline.

Citrix performance counters are grouped into six sections. In the next section, you will find descriptions of the most significant counters.

Citrix^® Broker Agent

The following counters are available on desktops and servers where Citrix Delivery Agent is installed:

Counter name	Description
Average Message Payload To Broker Asynchronous/Synchronous	The average size of asynchronous and synchronous...

Citrix^® performance monitoring counters

Citrix performance counters are grouped into six sections. In the next section, you will find descriptions of the most significant counters.

Citrix^® Broker Agent

The following counters are available on desktops and servers where Citrix Delivery Agent is installed:

Counter name	Description
Average Message Payload To Broker Asynchronous/Synchronous	The average size of asynchronous and synchronous messages sent...

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If you are an IT architect or system administrator who works with Citrix® XenApp® and need an agile, practical guide to tune and optimize the performance of your XenApp® architecture, this is the book for you. Citrix®, Citrix Systems®, XenApp®, XenDesktop® and CloudPortal™ are trademarks of Citrix Systems, Inc. and/or one or more of its subsidiaries, and may be registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries.

What you will learn

Design a new infrastructure based on the FlexCast® Management Architecture
Monitor the infrastructure to identify bottlenecks
Load balance your applications
Use of WANem to simulate and test the performance of applications over a geographic link
Optimize the end user experience using the EdgeSight® user experience monitoring tool
Improve the performance of multimedia applications with Citrix® HDX™
Take advantage of the new features of XenApp® 7.x for mobile and remote users

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James Nov 07, 2014

This is an excellent guide to follow. I have come across technical people whom claim to be in the business for some many years, yet they simply apply best practices from where ever they can find them on the internet. They apply them without testing or considering what it does for them.Well this book breaks it down and gives you an in depth understanding of the settings and its application so that you make the best judgement call for your environment. I have gotten alot from this book. If you are implementing or supporting a Xenapp site, this is a companion to the other Xenapp books from Packt.

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Andrew Moss Oct 03, 2014

This is an excellent book for all well-rounded Citrix professionals.The book introduces new concepts for XenApp 7.x and maintains an excellent level of detail whilst at the same time not getting bogged down in too much low level technicalities. Its a lightweight read and an excellent reference book - highly recommended.

Dominic Romero Nov 04, 2014

This is a great book for the intermediate user. It assumes you know what you are doing and builds on the core principles. This is a a great book at a great price. I will definitely look for other titles by this author.

Curran Nov 07, 2014

If you are a system administrator, consultant or even a novice this book will give you a detailed insight into the new features in this version. It also coverst how you can apply the technology in the real world. The book clearly discusses the new FMA architecture and how Citrix have moved away from the soon to be redundant IMA architecture.I felt that the book not just gave an insight into the new technology but also looked at ways of tweaking the architecture for better performance by using real world examples and recommending products to monitor the environment for potential bottle necks.

Littlejohn Sep 26, 2014

Really enjoyed reading this book. Definitely a must read for anyone that wants to get a better understanding of XenApp 7.5. I would highly recommend this book!

Citrix XenApp 7.x Performance Essentials: Tune and optimize the performance of your farms with the new improved XenApp® architecture.

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Citrix XenApp 7.x Performance Essentials

Chapter 2. Monitor and Optimize Infrastructure – Director and EdgeSight^®

Citrix^® performance monitoring counters

Citrix^® Broker Agent

Monitoring using Microsoft PowerShell

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Citrix^® Director

System requirements

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Installation

The Monitor Service Open Data API

Using Excel PowerPivot

Optimizing the infrastructure

CPU and memory optimizations

Citrix^® performance monitoring counters

Citrix^® Broker Agent

Monitoring using Microsoft PowerShell

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