What this book covers

Chapter 1, Planning Desktop Virtualization, provides an overview of desktop virtualization and the associated components. This includes an overview of the building blocks of VDI and determining the right fit for your environment.

Chapter 2, Defining Your Desktop Virtualization Environment, focuses on understanding the business requirements and driving factors of your virtual desktop strategy, including creating use cases by understanding your users and applications as well as planning your overall VDI strategy.

Chapter 3, Designing Your Infrastructure, explains how to design and scale the core infrastructure to host your XenApp solution. This involves creating high-level reference architectures and planning the virtual, physical, networking, and storage infrastructures.

Chapter 4, Designing Your Access Layer, explains how to design the Access layer components, including NetScaler and StoreFront, delving into the design specifics and identifying any constraints.

Chapter 5, Designing Your Application Delivery Layer, explains how to design the Application Delivery layer components, including all of the XenApp site design elements such as controllers, session hosts, Delivery Groups, and application publishing models.

Chapter 6, Designing Your Virtual Image Delivery, focuses on workload imaging services and delivery. This includes an overview of Provisioning Services and Machine Creation Services as well as best practices and recommendations.

Chapter 7, Designing Your Supporting Infrastructure Components, focuses on the remaining supporting components for the XenApp solution, including licensing, database requirements, monitoring services, and print services.

Chapter 8, Optimizing Your XenApp^? Solution, focuses on the auxiliary components that can be used to further optimize and customize the XenApp environment. This includes profile management, Citrix policies, Active Directory policies, and printing considerations.

Chapter 9, Implementing Your XenApp^? Solution, covers the final steps to implement a XenApp solution. It focuses on building the desktop and applications for delivery, capacity planning, load testing, user acceptance testing, and production rollout planning.