Archive for Citrix

  • Load Balancing – Least Response Time

    Load balancing uses a number of algorithms, called load balancing methods, to determine how to distribute the load among the servers. When a Load balancer is configured to use the least response time method, it selects the service with the least number of active connections and the least ...

  • Load Balancing – Round Robin

    Round Robin Load balancing allows you to distribute client requests across multiple servers. Load balancers improve server fault tolerance and end-user response time. Load balancing distributes client requests across multiple servers to optimize resource utilization. In a scenario with a ...

  • Load Balancing – Least Connections

    Load balancing allows you to distribute client requests across multiple servers. Load balancers improve server fault tolerance and end-user response time. Load balancing distributes client requests across multiple servers to optimize resource utilization. In a scenario with a limited numb...

  • Virtual Network Backup

    Backing up Virtual Machines If you are like me, you don't sleep at night knowing your virtual infrastructure is not backed up. I have learned the painful lessons of having to rebuild my virtual environment a couple of times (actually four). Now, there is some relief in the form of a ba...

  • NetScaler Automation – Part 1

    Connect to NetScaler VPX with Workflow Studio By now you have heard of Citrix Delivery Center and it's various components. Automating resources in the cloud is easy. One way is through the use of Citrix Workflow Studio to automatically provision the Citrix NetScaler. Workflow Studio...

  • Virtual Network Stack

    OSI Layers 1 - 7 ~ virtualized Citrix owns the virtual stack, OSI Layers 1 through 7 that is. There isn't any other solution that can claim the fact that they can install Virtual Machines on bare metal, run a Virtual Layer 2 Switch, a Virtual Layer 3/4 router, and applications all the w...

  • Production XenApp in EC2

    XenApp in the Cloud Citrix XenApp™ is the on-demand application delivery solution that enables any Windows application to be virtualized, centralized and managed in the datacenter, and now the cloud, and instantly delivered as a service to users anywhere on any device. XenApp reduces ...

  • Security Groups in Amazon EC2

    For XenApp farms in EC2 In a previous post, I talked about how to build a XenApp Farm in Amazon EC2. I was reminded through a comment on the post, that a XenApp Farm usually is deployed with certain degrees of security separation between the servers. Having left that out of the Deployme...

  • Security Groups in Amazon EC2

    For XenApp farms in EC2 In a previous post, I talked about how to build a XenApp Farm in Amazon EC2. I was reminded through a comment on the post, that a XenApp Farm usually is deployed with certain degrees of security separation between the servers. Having left that out of the Deployme...

  • Windows on Androids Windows on Androids

    Or Windows on Mac, Thin Client, WinMo, iPhone... The list grows as Citrix Receiver continues to make the end computing device ambigous. In a previous post I showed how Windows applications or desktops can be delivered to an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. Right after the post, the guys i...