This article will show you how to load balance Storefront. I will start by showing how to load balance using port 80 to the Netscaler and port 80 the backend Storefront servers. Create Monitor for Storefront Servers The first thing you need to do is create monitors for your Storefront servers. To do that go […]
XenDesktop
Citrix XenApp or XenDesktop – What is the difference and how to decide
If you have considered to roll out VDI in your organisation, you have without a doubt thought about a solution from Citrix. Even though there are other vendors on the market than Citrix, they are the one with the most modern and mature product. The question is whether you are going with a XenApp or […]
Citrix Health Assistant is replacing XDPing
For years we have been using XDPing for trouble shooting VDA registration in XenApp and XenDesktop. XDPing has now been replaced with Citrix Health Assistant. Citrix Health Assistant is an application that you can download from citrix.com. It is very easy to use. It is a desktop application instead of command line tool. All you […]
Citrix Architecture – On Premises
When Citrix released XenApp and XenDesktop 7.x, they also changed the architecture. I version 6.5 and earlier, the architecture was called IMA or Independent Management Architecture. This article will describe the new Citrix architecture, also called FMA. The FMA architecture is buildup of five layers: User Layer Access Layer Resource Layer Control Layer Hardware […]
You want to give your users a great steak, right?
How do you cook a steak without insight? You need to know the meat’s temperature to do that. You need a tool for that. The same goes for the user experience in your XenApp / XenDesktop environment. The tool we use to measure user experience is called Citrix Director. I have lost count on how […]
XenApp and XenDesktop features from 7.7 to 7.12
For the past year, Citrix have released a lot new features in XenApp and XenDesktop. However, it can be difficult to remember in which version each feature was released. Here you will find an overview over the features that got released over the past year and which version you need to install to get those […]