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Citrix XenApp 7.x Performance Essentials

You're reading from   Citrix XenApp 7.x Performance Essentials Tune and optimize the performance of your farms with the new improved XenApp® architecture.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782176114
Length 120 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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 that runs on the XenApp server, it can easily saturate the available bandwidth.

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

Bandwidth policy settings

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

  • 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; you can also completely turn off a channel if it is unused. If you...

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