Citrix® XenDesktop® 7 Cookbook by Gaspare A. Silvestri
2014 | ISBN: 1782177469 | English
Overview
Implement the XenDesktop 7 architecture and its satellite components
Learn how to publish desktops and applications to the end-user devices,
optimizing their performance and increasing the general security.
Designed in a manner which will allow you to progress gradually from one
chapter to another or to implement a single component only referring to
the specific topic
In Detail
Citrix is an established name
in today's Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) era by virtue of their desktop
and application virtualization platforms, with the capability to assign
applications and contents in a secure manner. XenDesktop 7 is the union
of the two historical products developed by Citrix - XenDesktop and
XenApp. As usual, this is offered on most operating system platforms
available in the market.
Citrix® XenDesktop® 7 Cookbook helps
you as a system administrator to implement, configure, and optimize the
migration from a physical architecture to a VDI architecture, using the
latest release of the Citrix XenDesktop suite. This book is enriched
with advanced configurations and conceptual explanations, which permit
novice users as well as experienced professionals to understand what
they’re going to implement.
This book begins with the required
installation and upgrade procedure on which the final architecture will
perform its work. Starting from this point, you will create the virtual
resources to deploy, install, and integrate the security and
architectural components which complete the XenDesktop infrastructure
(StoreFront, Netscaler Gateway, CloudBridge platform, and so on), using a
flow that will bring you to the final advanced Powershell configuration
tasks.
What you will learn from this book
Understand the upgrade and installation procedures for the core infrastructural components
Deploy and optimize procedures for the desktop virtual machines
Install and configure collateral platforms such as the CloudBridge platform
Perform the desktop and applications deployment through the XenDesktop
core as well as the integrated publishing platforms, such as Microsoft
App-V
Execute the most advanced activities in the VDI environment
Tune and secure the Citrix sites
Complete implementation activities using the Citrix Powershell modules
Approach
A step-by-step course that includes tasks ranging from a standard to
high-level difficulty, oriented to deploy an enterprise production VDI
environment. This practical approach is based on both GUI and command
line operations, which gives you as an IT professional the alternatives
to operate the system wherever possible.
Who this book is written for
If you are a system administrator or an experienced IT professional who
wants to refer to a centralized container of procedures and advanced
tasks in XenDesktop, this is the book for you. If you are an IT
technician approaching this technology for the first time, who wants to
integrate a more theoretical formative process with step-by-step
installation and configuration activities, this book will also help you.
You will need to have experience of the virtualized environment and an
understanding of the general concepts of desktop virtualization (VDI).