The expansion of appreciation for the Community Contributors: Citrix technology lawyers -

Wow! It is hard to believe that it is in 2015 been a year since the introduction of the Citrix User Group Community (CUGC) at Synergy!

There is a time of learning and growth, and Citrix highly values ​​all interactions we had with the community. We are looking to develop forward to continuing the CUGC and other opportunities for our customers, partners and employees.

To this end, I have had the honor recently on a project with an estimated member of the community of Work:. Shane Kleinert Shane is a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP), which works for the election Solutions, a Citrix partner, headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas

in the last year and a half, Shane. a great friend in the community and many valuable insights have provided during my discovery process - think of a loud soundboard! Besides Shane multiple CTPs with us and valuable feedback. Kees Baggerman, Esther Barthel, Jarian Gibson, Alexander Ervik Johnsen, Tobias Kreidl, Paul Stansel, Sacha Thomet, Bas van Kaam and Andrew Wood

Together Shane and I talked with dozens of passionate professionals in the Citrix community in recent months. Their valuable insights we have identified the opportunity to improve how we identify our most valuable contributors in the community. While many Citrix experts strive in the community to join the CTP program, membership is limited to only 50 people.

So we are working a new appreciation for animal Citrix community contributors to the structure, which will be determined Citrix Technology Attorneys (CTA) .

We have entered 25 extraordinary community members that will help us expand our community programs. These individuals communicate tireless passion for the Citrix technology in many ways. You spend countless hours sharing knowledge and connecting with community peers; Below are a few examples of its use, but the list is not exhaustive:

• their knowledge in the technology stack Citrix parts
• Involved in online forums as CUGC and other technology forums
• blogging about their experiences with the technology
• speech at Citrix and related industry events
• in support of Community programs such as Citrix IRC
• providing strategic feedback to product teams Citrix
• Volunteering for community initiatives such as local user groups leads, lunch tech chats at synergy hosting, participate in focus groups

are

This Citrix technology advocates for their wonderful contributions to the Citrix Community recognized , with advantages such as:

• private community in CUGC
• expanded opportunities for product feedback
• Regular meetings with key product teams Citrix
• access to enablement software from third

Let the Citrix technology congratulate us attorney founding members:

name	Social Media
Matthew Allen	Twitter
Niek Boevink	Twitter blog
David Brett	Twitter blog
Carsten Bruns	Twitter
Jane Cassell	Twitter
Ryan Gaul	Twitter
Preston Gallwas	Twitter blog
Adam Gamble	Twitter blog
Robin Hobo	Twitter blog
Phillip Jones	Twitter blog
Mark S. Knouse	Twitter
Jits Langedijk	Twitter blog
Rory Monaghan	Twitter blog
Shane O'Neill	Twitter blog
Scott Osborne	Twitter
David Ott	Twitter
Jonathan Pitre	Twitter
Adam Platt	Twitter
James Rankin	Twitter blog
Ryan Revord	Twitter
Shaun Ritchie	Twitter blog
Rick Rötenberg	Twitter blog
Marius Sandbu	Twitter blog
Julien Stanojevic	Twitter blog
Kyle Wise	Twitter blog

These community experts a lot of feedback and have provided evidence available and we look forward to encourage them and to enrich our technology talks.

Stay tuned to work for more information and the introduction of a formal nomination process. In the meantime, if you are interested in participating, you would send us your name and e-mail. We are interested in more technical-minded and enterprising professionals of customers and partners know how well independent consultants!

NetScaler family extends SD WAN -

Citrix combines data center, cloud and enterprise-delivery branded products for NetScaler Enterprise Application Delivery feature in the new era of software-defined networks. Within this news, , the Citrix Cloud Bridge SD WAN product line will be a key element of the NetScaler product portfolio, and going forward is as NetScaler SD WAN be known.

NetScaler is a recognized brand, known for its ability, availability, performance and security of applications in the data center and hosted cloud. With the software-first approach includes the NetScaler product line, the software-defined networking mantra. By expanding software-based networks for delivery of applications from the data center or in the cloud to the branch, these same software-defined principles bring compelling advantages for the wide area network in the form of software-defined WAN.

The NetScaler SD WAN family offers the functionality of the new SD-WAN, while also provided by NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway to integrate with application services and secure mobile access. With a common management platform for enterprise application delivery on campus, remote and branch users NetScaler, the family now expands value for enterprise IT, while offering a lower total cost of ownership. allows

NetScaler SD WAN Enterprise IT increase the reliability of the application deployment over the wide area network to the branch. It also measures the performance of WAN links in real time and immediately adapts to network impairments. The solution is cost-effective since it allows for the increase of trusted WAN services and strategic MPLS bonds, Internet and mobile connection for improved reliability -. With 80 percent lower cost than the scaling of MPLS alone

During the day we will also demonstrate a revolutionary way for customers their ADC and SD WAN solutions through a single system manage - this innovative solution is the NetScaler management and Analytics system (MAS) . NetScaler MAS streamlines the management of NetScaler ADC and NetScaler SD WAN - Stay for more information on this message today voted in our blog

We began to communicate this message to our customers to show our continued focus, they make available. with greater value and simplicity.

With Windows Server container where XenServer 7.0 -

Containers are a hot topic in the software industry at the moment. The technology promises rapid development and deployment of Web-scale applications. Although much is focused by the interest in Linux Containers, has the concept of other operating systems, with Windows Server 2016, the latest of the party is believed to join.

Earlier this year, Microsoft launched container support in its Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview. Moreover, the company with Docker worked on Windows-container in the core Docker container development, deployment, management, and integrated stack time.

XenServer already with the Docker Docker Linux Container embraced by integrating Stack administrators available to provide visibility, reporting and control of Docker container hosting environments. This capability will be extended to Windows Container in XenServer 7.0, released this week.

Before we look at how Windows container set up and use, the XenServer Docker integration let us take a brief look at some of the benefits of integration

monitoring and visibility - to know which VMs are in use for Docker hosting and what is actually executed on them containers. Today's interface is more of a "domestic" as "cattle", but it's fine for small to medium deployments and evaluations

Diagnosis -. Easy access to basic container information such as routed network ports originating Docker image name. This can research problems accelerate help where both or one may be involved the infrastructure and application layers

Runtime Management -. XenCenter using start, stop and interrupt application container. This function has a number of applications, in both evaluation and deployment scenarios including fast problematic applications

Demo

Let us, by a XenServer 7.0 environment ended to start - we need nothing special here, so I will use my favorite demo platform, an Intel NUC NUC5i5RYH with XenServer 7.0 is installed using a local SSD. XenServer of Docker integration is delivered as an additive package (XenServer add-on format). We can XenCenter the update wizard ( "Tools" menu, "Installing update ...") used to apply the pack. Browse to find the additional package (it is an ISO file) and follow the wizard through.

Once the installation is complete, we will pack listed in "Updates" Features "General" properties see Tab.

We now go ahead and Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview VM to install. I'm going to use Technical Preview 5 (SP5) for this demo. I have already set up an ISO storage repository and it contains the ISO TP5. We can install the VM in the usual manner; times using 4 GB of memory and 2 vCPUs for this demo. The installer has the ability to install with or without "Desktop Experience" - it will be easier to play with this with a proper UI that so can choose. If the Windows Installer type to select an installation asks we must choose. "Custom: Install Windows only", because we have not in our VM an existing Windows installation already

After the Windows installation is complete we can to the XenServer Tools (Agent and device drivers) in the normal manner install - you will notice that this way a quick and easy process compared to previous versions of XenServer

, now we in 2016 VM TP5 all have set a Windows server. and ready to go. We will now set up this VM Container Docker for operation. Microsoft have documentation and tools provided this easy to do (if you have previously tried on the previous Server 2016 Tech Previews then you may be pleasantly surprised by the improvements of TP5 Tooling). We are the instructions on the MSDN Web Container Micro follow - especially the "Scripted - Existing System". Instructions

PowerShell we use fetch install the script, and then run that omitted "-HyperV" option because we are going to use Windows Server Containers not Hyper-V Container .

wget -uri https://aka.ms/tp5/ Install container host -outfile C: Install ContainerHost.ps1

powershell.exe -noprofile -ExecutionPolicy bypass C: install ContainerHost.ps1

the installation script starts the VM and run again once we have registered in back to the desktop. The installation takes a few minutes because it has to be processed and the Windows Server Core Container base image to download.

Once this installation we have a functioning Windows Container has finished stack environment and Docker. The next step is to enable the VM for XenServer of the container management. This is similar in concept to the mechanism for Linux VMs Docker However for Windows, we used TLS connections to the Docker daemon instead of tunneling over SSH as in Linux case. To set this up, we can use the host console to retrieve the UUID of the VM and run prepare the script. We have the opportunity, our own TLS certificates but in this case we have the script its own self-signed certificates will have to generate.

The script is a CD image (ISO), which to be create the certificates automatically added to the Windows Server 2016 VM and a script to install it; it will then be prompted to re-run the VM this script.

We turn now to the VM go back and run the script.

to be switched on again after the host console and let it run the setup script complete a configured VM ready for use, we now have. We can test the integration, by working for the "Docker information" on the "General" tab VM search.

A good way container windows try over Docker is to follow the example IIS on MSDN container microsite. This example shows how to create containers and to change, includes initially by creating an image of the IIS Web server, and then create containers on this image based. We can improve on different TCP ports this example by running multiple IIS container on the same host. For this we need the port allocation in the "Docker run" modify commands, for example:

Docker run --name iisdemo81 -i -t -p 81:80 windowsservercoreiis cmd

docker run --name iisdemo82 -i -t -p 82:80 windowsservercoreiis cmd

in the video Take a look to see among those in action.

Once we have a few containers we run the effect of XenServer Docker can see integration. The most important elements to consider:

,

The container in the infrastructure tree view showing the relationship between the containers and VMs
Lifecycle operations buttons administrator has control of each container is made possible.
Per Container detailed information, including port mappings to help with diagnosis.

This includes our demo of Windows Server Container on XenServer 7.0. I encourage you to try it yourself. You can https://www.citrix.com/products/xenserver/overview.html and Windows Server 2016 at TP5 Downloads from XenServer 7.0 and the Container Management Pack, see https://www.microsoft.com/en- us / evalcenter / evaluate-windows-server-technical preview

resources

• https://msdn.microsoft.com/virtualization/windowscontainers/containers_welcome
• https://github.com/Microsoft/Virtualization-Documentation/blob/master/virtualization/windowscontainers/about/work_in_progress.md
• https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-us/home?forum=windowscontainers

Beta for NetScaler Gateway Service - FAQs -

Frequently Asked Questions - NetScaler Gateway Service

We announce Beta for NetScaler Gateway Service. This is a public beta open to anyone who either an existing XenApp and XenDesktop customers or a new customer is interested in the subscription of XenApp and XenDesktop service on Citrix Cloud.
1. What's NetScaler Gateway Service?
NetScaler Gateway Service (NGS) is a complementary service to XenApp and XenDesktop service on Citrix cloud that delivers the same high-quality user experience as on-premise NetScaler Gateway, but without the need firewall ports, TLS configure certificates or register a DNS domain.

2. I am a newer XenApp and XenDesktop service subscriber. Can I subscribe for NGS now?

The general availability, NGS is through the same channels as other Citrix Cloud Services (sold by Citrix partners on a per-user per-year basis) are available, see https: / /www.citrix.com/products/citrix-cloud/buy.html for further details.

3. I NetScaler in my data center today. Can I use it hosted as a front-end applications and desktop service on Citrix cloud?

Yes. You can continue to use your local NetScaler with XenApp and XenDesktop service on Citrix Cloud.

4. What other components should I use NGS to the XenApp and XenDesktop service?

contain the local component (NetScaler Gateway Port) as part of the Citrix Cloud Connector that. Also require the XenApp and XenDesktop Service Please note that at this time there are a limit of 30 concurrent users per CloudConnector for NGS (this only applies to the NGS, it does not apply to the XenApp service itself or other Citrix cloud services). If you have a need for more than 30 concurrent users, you can deploy multiple NetScaler gateway ports.

5. If I subscribe NGS, I need to apply changes to my firewall?

No. No changes are required in your DMZ or your corporate firewall. NGS includes HTTP proxy support, you should have your network policies require Internet access services from your network.

6. If I have multiple data centers, I can use NGS?

Yes. NGS passes HDX directly to the correct data center. To take advantage of this function, configure that several zones in the XenApp service. (Note: in the current beta, ensure that the * all * Cloud Connectors and equipment catalogs are in new zones provide a reliable connection to guarantee)

7. [ will be there monitoring service in the future, something like HDX Insight?

We are still planning our roadmap and communicate as appropriate.

8. How much do I have to pay to get this service?

We have not at this time revealed pricing, and do so closer to the general availability of the service.

9. I am interested in this service. How do I sign up for beta?

If you are a subscriber service with XenApp and XenDesktop, you must request and sign a free trial to another account. We want to make sure we do not introduce a new component in the production environment, which is not generally available

For new customers :. Please request a free trial of http://bit.ly/NGSBeta

Once you get access to the service portal, please activate the NetScaler Gateway service, as shown below:

10. How can I provide feedback for NetScaler Gateway service

Please visit here to give the Feedback link: http: // bit. ly / NGSfeedback

Quantifying the pain of Shadow IT & SaaS app explosion -

I had a great week at Citrix Synergy, where the feedback on Secure Browser was enormous!

However, I have heard the same thing over and over again from clients:

"I understand to deliver the value of Secure Browser with SAP and Oracle, but I really I, that support many browsers and SaaS applications to worry about? "

The answer is YES!

But do not take my word for it. I am thrilled to give you a free new assessment tool from Lakeside Software powered known that you say:

• Which browsers are used and how many versions of each in use
• which sites are both internally and externally, visited and
• which plug-ins causing the duration of these visits
problems if launch web applications

with this information, you can proactively understand where the "pain" is and why your helpdesk can with calls related to web and SaaS apps not working properly are flooded.

How to start?

All you have to do is sign up for this cloud-hosted service, install the agent on your endpoints and then at the end of the 30 assessment period day be a full report with a summary infographic, similar the get down.

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This report can clearly see the value that Citrix Secure Browser offers to deliver by the browser and is designed plug-in any web app and providing safe remote access, without anything to install on the endpoint.

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Once you apply your judgment, you start your free trial of Citrix Cloud Secure Browser service.

Citrix director CPU, memory usage and process information -

How often do you find a user who has a session Freeze, because a process too much CPU power is required, and there is no way, the problem easy to solve? If only you check the CPU usage trends of the last few days, you could plan better for the new delivery group that you provide the.

The latest version of Citrix Director as part of Citrix XenApp Cloud and XenDesktop Service, you can have a glimpse of the CPU and memory usage on your applications and desktops you get allows for CPU and memory usage to better prepare.

-based machine CPU and memory usage

We have added a historical Utilization button on the machine utilization panel.

This will open a new page, Historic machine utilization for the machine. Find the historical usage of CPU, memory, and number of sessions on the specific machine to find.

time ranges can be selected to display the historical resource utilization. We support 2 hours 24 hours, 7 days, 1 month and 1 year periods

Three graphs showing the historical development of individual parameters - , CPU Count, Memory and Session

1. CPU graph: .. CPU graph shows the average CPU trend over the selected time and the baseline
2. memory graph: Memory graph shows the average storage trend selected time and the baseline
3. session graph: shows .. session graph total number of sessions trend over the selected time and the baseline

in the following screen capture "load 2 hours of" was selected. Therefore, the base period will be the chosen 2 hours prior to the time domain. The CPU, memory and session trend in the last 2 hours, and the base time can be seen in three graphs. On hover, the tooltip provides additional information.

process information

in the historic resource utilization page, process information added In addition to the resource data. In the table top 10 processes on the basis of CPU or memory. It also provides information about the process, such as application name, user name, session ID, CPU average and peak memory and average and peak over the selected time range

. Note: Session ID is the 0000 is for the system processes shown.

The table below shows the top 10 processes based on memory tip. And clicking on a process are the historical trend in the consumption of resources of the process. The table below shows the development of resource use for BrokerAgent.exe

Past CPU and memory usage trend

There is a new tab called resource utilization imported trends page. Here you can see the trends obtained on the basis of the usage of CPU, memory and overall meetings for a selected period.

Similar to other tabs trends, filters are supported. You can set a filter for the delivery group and time period

delivery group filter: .. You can either a specific delivery group or all delivery groups

time period filter: We have 2 hour support, 24 hours, 7 days , 1 month and 1 year ranges.

The resource utilization trend chart included 3 graphs. All three graphs offer a baseline analysis

1. CPU graph. CPU graph shows the average CPU usage on a regular basis on selected time and baseline for all delivery groups or specific delivery group.
2. memory diagram :. Storage chart shows the average storage for regular intervals over selected time and the basis for all delivery groups or specific delivery group
3. Session Graph: Session graph shows the total session count for regular intervals over selected time and the basis for all delivery groups or certain delivery group.

tooltip provides the summary of all the above graph for a certain time.

The table below the graph shows the resource usage details per machine. The table contains the information, such as total number of sessions, CPU average CPU peak memory Average, Memory Peak. The table can be sorted by any of these parameters.

In addition to the above parameters, you can see the number per machine, even the existing message. Note that this is only for RDS machines.

As per other trends is the zoom feature provided for all charts available and the reports can also be exported.

So, now you know how this feature works. Next, let's find out how this function in your Citrix Cloud XenApp and XenDesktop Service to activate setting.

Enable this feature on your VDAS

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GPO

group Policy is a collection of settings that determine how sessions, bandwidth and security for a group of users, devices, or connection types are managed. Group Policy can be easily configured in Citrix Studio

introduced a new section of the monitoring, which has two directives .:

enable
1. process monitoring (default = disabled): The data processing is disabled by default. Please enable policies to get the process information in the past machine details page

2. Enable resource monitoring (default = enabled): .. The CPU and memory usage data is enabled by default

Both the policy can be changed on the basis of the request.

, the scope of these policies can be defined based on the website, delivery group, delivery group, organizational unit, tags, etc.

Each data point in respect on the CPU, memory and processes are stored and the VDA collected on the monitoring database. Sending the data points from the VDA to the monitoring database is network bandwidth. If you monitor either resource data or process data, or both, for a specific area (specific delivery group, OU, etc.) are not interested, it is recommended to disable the appropriate policy.

When resource monitoring policy is disabled on the delivery group, the resource data points will not be collected from any of VDAs in the delivery group. With this you can save the network bandwidth consumed to send the data and storing it on the monitoring database.

scalability

is now to look at the size of the data we have are dealing with.

The CPU and memory data will be pushed by each VDA every minute. And process data in the 5-minute intervals. At bet 40,000 VDA, 3 MB resource information added to the database per minute and 270 MB of process data for every 5 minutes.

As long as there is data in the monitoring DB?

The following table shows the default configuration for data storage.

CPU and memory data

data granularity	Number of days
1 minute data	one day
10-minute data	7 days
Hourly	30 days
Daily data	is 0 days

Therefore, the total number the points resource data is

[1 day *1440] + [7 day *144] + [30 day *24] + [0 day * 1] = 3258

every resource datum is about 80 bytes in size. Total size required to store resource data per machine = 80 * 3258 ~ 255 KB

process data

data granularity	Number the days
five minutes data	one day
20-minute data	3 days
Hourly	30 days
Daily data	30 days

Therefore, the total number of process data points are

[1 day *288] + [3 day *72] + [30 day *24] + [30 day * 1] = 1254

Top 100 processes details are pro device are stored. And each process data point is about 70 bytes in size. save total size per machine process data required = 70 * 100 * 1254 ~ 8.5 MB

is to be stored for 40,000 VDAS, the maximum size of the resource data with standard retention settings require about 10 GB. Since the process data is very large, the data is growing at a much higher rate. For 40,000 VDA use, the total size of the process data required to store approximately 330 GB.

_{* Please note, do not include the above figures the index space. And all the calculations above are approximations, and may depend according to the application.}

This is a lot of data if not properly configured to handle. , With appropriate configurations Group Policy and data you care to reduce the data that is stored on the monitoring database

The following instructions may help you determine the storage better planning:

1. group policy: If you are not interested in the resource data monitoring or process data, either one or both can use group policy to be turned off. Refer to the Group Policy section of this document for further information
2. data maintenance :. The data default retention settings are changed, the data can early to care for and free the storage. Find out more about the care settings.

Notifications

With Citrix Cloud XenApp and XenDesktop service, you can now configure and notifies warnings if the CPU or memory values ​​obtained of expected threshold. For more details, see the next blog post on the proactive notifications and alerts improvements.

This function allows you to get a glimpse of the CPU, memory usage and processes on your Citrix Cloud XenApp and XenDesktop running service delivery. You can also get an overview of the historical resource consumption, which helps in planning future deployments.