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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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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

An overview of image management

Image management, which is sometimes called disk image management, is the idea of creating a reusable copy of a virtual machine's hard drive. This is typically the operating system and any locally installed applications. The key concept behind disk image management is reusability, which allows us to deliver the necessary operating systems to most of the users using as few unique images as possible. By reusing a common image, we can save on the overall management (time to update, configuration changes, and so forth) as well as resources (the storage capacity and disk utilization.) This is a key reason why the use case design, as discussed in Chapter 2, Defining Your Desktop Virtualization Environment, is so important.

An overview of image management

The image management concept

Citrix offers you two products as part of XenApp 7.5: Machine Creation Services and Provisioning Services. We will cover both of these in greater detail later in this chapter, but for now, we will focus on the...

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