PS - 4.5 - Hands-On - Training (2007.02)

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XENAPP 4.5Training

MAGNAMIOUS SYSTEM PVT. LTD


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2 MSPL Company Confidential Magnamious System Pvt Ltd.All rights reserved.

Agenda

Hands-On Training Goals and Release Dates

Business Drivers for Migration

Proof of Concept Exercises

Summary


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Hands-On Training Goals

and Release Dates


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Hands-On Training Goals

Help consultants in the field perform the following:

Conduct a Xenapp 4.5 Implementation

Be technically ready to conduct a Xenapp 4.5 design

Describe how new product features affectConsulting Services

Successfully perform Run Book exercises whichincludes step-by-step instruction as to how to

configure new features


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Business Drivers forMigration


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Key Business Drivers

Cost-Effectiveness, Security & Performance forDelivering Client-Server Applications

Higher availability

Faster graphics performance

Simplified partner network expansion

Faster application deployments

Enhanced product security


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Business Drivers Map to Features

Higher availability

Health Monitoring & Recovery

Load Throttling

Program Neighborhood Agent Backup URL Support

Non-Administrator Client Installation

Thread Pools

Faster graphics

SpeedScreen Progressive Display

Heavyweight Compression

Simplified partner network expansion

ADFS Support for Web Interface



Business Drivers Map to Features(contd)

Faster Application Deployments

Application Streaming

Management Enhancements

Access Management Console Configuration Logging

Multi-Lingual User (MUI) Client for Windows

Support for 32-bit Color Icons

Automatic Farm Tuner

Enhanced Product Security

Trusted Server Configuration

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Support



Proof of Concept Exercises:Learn About New Features

SpeedScreenProgressive Displayand HeavyweightCompression

Load Throttling (Slow-Start Load Balancing)

Health Monitoring &Recovery

SQL Express 2005

Configuration Logging

ProgramNeighborhood Agent

Backup URL Trusted Server

Automatic Farm

Tuner IMA Encryption

Streaming Server



SpeedScreen Progressive Displayand Heavyweight Compression

Improves interactivity of dynamic images, e.g., 2D Quality of image is temporarily decreased until movement

stops

At first: less graphical detail; faster initial display When available: more

graphical detail Configuration

For static images

For 2D images

Additional compression Probably always enable

Benefits graphics-intensive apps

PACS CAD



Demo of SpeedScreen ProgressiveDisplay and Heavyweight Compression

What youll see:

Colorado/graphics

Catia on CPS 4.0 at 3Mbps

Catia/no graphics

Catia on CPS 4.5 at 3 Mbps with the Progressive displaypolicy disabled and heavyweight compression disabled

Catia/graphics

Catia on CPS 4.5 at 3 Mbps with the Progressive display

policy enabled and heavyweight compression enabled

Note: You must have the Camtasia TSCC codec to run this demo!See http://www.techsmith.com/download/codecs.asp.File name is 3DGraphicsAvi.avi and must be accessed separatelyfrom this presentation if it is not co-located with this file.



Demo



Load Throttling(Slow-Start Load Balancing)

A new LoadEvaluator rule

Automatically

included inDefault andAdvanced

Eliminates

multiplesessions frombeingforwarded to anewly added

server



sec

10000Load

7000

0.5

1000

70 users

5logons

5000

2 logons

35 logons to match Average!!!

1.0 1.5 2.0

AverageLoad

LegacyBiasing

ThrottledBiasing

Load Throttling Impact

How it works Heavily biases the server load on first logon

Further logons are biased but less than previous

When logon finishes the load goes back to normal




Citrix Health Monitoring and Recovery service used tomonitor key components within Xenapp

If a component fails, can be configured to trigger an

action to the server Out-of-the-box tests:

Terminal Services

Citrix XML Service

Citrix IMA Service

Logon monitor

Other tests will be developed by Citrix and available asdownloads or can be custom-written with SDK



Health Monitoring Configuration

ConfigureunderFarmProperties

andServerDefault


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SQL Express 2005

Second free Data Store database option

MSDE no longer supported

Two editions: Standard and Advanced

Advanced includes Management Studio Express (similarto SQL Enterprise Manager)

Free!

Limitations:

1 Processor

4 GB size

Easily upgradeable to full SQL Server 2005


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Eliminates issues of multiple administrators makingmultiple changes with no audit trail

All administrative changes logged in

centralized database Sources include:

Access Management Console

Xenapp Console

Command-line utilities

Tools custom built with MFCOM

SQL Server and Oracle Support

I didnt

do it!


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Configuration Logging Report

Includes:

Logon User

Date

Status Item

Operation


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Configuration Logging: Operation

Sub-reports for operations Created and Modified

Created sub-report shows Properties and Values

Modified sub-report shows Properties, Original

Value and New Value


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Program Neighborhood AgentBackup URL Support

Secondary URLs and site redirection for connectivity

Eliminate Web Interface-related single points of failure


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Trusted Server

Administratively-defined trust requirements (localclient or GPO) to determine whether serverconnection is trusted

Based only on client internet options/trusted sites

Not enabled by default

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Trusted Server(1 of 23 ADM template settings . . .)

All 23 ICA-related settings available in ADM template

ADM template included on the Component CD in Clientsfolder (in icaweb.cab file)

In Win32 client, .ini settings moved to registry and canthus be controlled by GPO


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Part of Project Kevlar; now in Support folder of CD

Eliminates manual changes on very large farms

Should typicallybe used in 800+

server farms Values

dependenton farmconfiguration

Optimizedvalues can beset automatically


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IMA Encryption

Can be enabled duringinstallation or afterward

Administered by means of

CTXKEYTOOL command

This unique identifier proves membership in a farmand allows the member servers to securely store

and retrieve information in the IMA Data Store usinga protected primary key


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Streaming Server

Based on Application Isolation technology

Enables applications to be streamedto Xenapps or Win32 devices

CPS Load balancingdecisions based onapplication,not application

existence Minor delay on first launch;

application not yet streamed

AccessManagementConsole

Network File Share

XenappData Store

Project Tarpon Client


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Streaming Server Integration

Additional optionspresented forpublishingapplications

Improved isolationperformance

Requirements

Profiler to profileapps

Streaming client

Embedded inCPS

PN Agent

For Windows

client offline


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Summary


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When to Use . . .

Customer Has/Needs:

Graphical applications suchas CAD

Multiple users logging onsimultaneously such as callcenter

Wants to monitor Citrixservices or logons

Avoid ProgramNeighborhood Agent singlepoints of failure

Multiple administratorsmaking changes

Suggested Feature

SpeedScreen Progressive Display/Heavyweight Compression

Load Throttling (Slow-Start Load

Balancing)


Program Neighborhood AgentBackup URL



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When to Use . . .

Customer Has/Needs:

800+ server farm

Secure IMAcommunications

Deploy applications into anisolation environment onXenapp on an as-neededbasis

Suggested Feature


IMA Encryption

Streaming Server


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What Did You Learn?

Functionality

Configuration options

Optimization

Impact

Upgrade to Xenapp 4.5!


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Feedback

Please provide feedback based on this course

Tell us what you think

Was it valuable?

Do you feel like you have a better grasp on Xenapp 4.5? What other courses would you like to see?


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