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Citrix XenApp 7.5 Desktop Virtualization Solutions

You're reading from   Citrix XenApp 7.5 Desktop Virtualization Solutions Plan, design, optimize, and implement your XenApp solution to mobilize your business

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2014
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ISBN-13 9781849689687
Length 328 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andy Paul Andy Paul
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Preface 1. Planning Desktop Virtualization FREE CHAPTER 2. Defining Your Desktop Virtualization Environment 3. Designing Your Infrastructure 4. Designing Your Access Layer 5. Designing Your Application Delivery Layer 6. Designing Your Virtual Image Delivery 7. Designing Your Supporting Infrastructure Components 8. Optimizing Your XenApp® Solution 9. Implementing Your XenApp® Solution Index

Determining your virtualization platform


Choosing your platform may impact your design decisions, including scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, and budget. With XenApp 7.5, you also have the option to host on-site or in the cloud. For on-site hosting, there are three primary products for server virtualization: XenServer, VMware vSphere, and Microsoft Hyper-V Server. For cloud hosting, you can use Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS.) As you can see in the following screenshot, XenApp 7.5 can connect to a variety of platforms for hosting resources:

Citrix Studio hosting connection options

Assuming our CIO has mandated on-site hosting, we need to determine our virtualization platform. For XenApp or XenDesktop deployments, the underlying virtualization platform technically does not matter. The Citrix desktop and application virtualization products are hypervisor agnostic. This means they can run equally well on XenServer, vSphere, Hyper-V, or even bare metal. In some environments...

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