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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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Traffic shaping


In some scenarios, it is very important to limit the maximum bandwidth used by different sessions. Even if you're using a high-speed link, shaping some streams is a good practice. Consider, for example, a user working with a scanner; when the scanner sends the image to the application running on the XenApp server, it can easily saturate the available bandwidth.

XenApp offers a category of user policies to limit the bandwidth used by the different supported redirections, as shown in the following screenshot:

Limit the bandwidth used by XenApp

You can limit the overall session bandwidth and/or the bandwidth used for:

  • Audio redirection

  • Client USB device redirection

  • Clipboard redirection

  • COM port redirection

  • File redirection

  • HDX MediaStream redirection

  • LPT port redirection

  • Printer redirection

  • TWAIN device redirection

You can define a fixed limit value (in Kb per second) and a percentage of the total session bandwidth. If you configure both the two settings, the most restrictive one is applied...

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