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Understanding Citrix

Environment
What is Citrix ?
• Citrix Systems is a company that sells software and
services specializing in thin clients and remote access
software for delivering applications over a network and the
Internet.
• History - Citrix was founded in 1989 by ex-IBM developer
Ed Iacobucci. Citrix was originally named Citrus but
changed its name after an existing company claimed
trademark rights. The Citrix name is a portmanteau of Citrus
and UNIX. Many of the original founding members had
participated in the IBM OS/2 project. Iacobucci's vision was
to build OS/2 with multi-user support. IBM was not
interested in this idea so Iacobucci left to form his own
company.
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Relationship with Microsoft
• Citrix obtained a license to all of the source code of Microsoft's
Windows NT 3.51, and developed it into a multi-user system which they
began to sell in 1995 as WinFrame. For the first time, the company
made a profit.
• Early in 1997, Microsoft no longer wanted Citrix to ship its version of NT
and wanted this software created in-house. Microsoft threatened to
create their own independent version of Citrix and withdrew its license of
NT 4.0.
• After negotiations, Microsoft agreed to license Citrix technology for
Windows NT Server 4.0, resulting in Windows Terminal Server Edition.
Citrix agreed not to ship a competing product but retained the right to
sell an extension to Microsoft's products, initially under the name
MetaFrame. This relationship continued into the Windows 2000 Server
and Windows Server 2003 eras, with Citrix offering Metaframe XP and
Presentation Server. On February 11, 2008, Citrix changed the name of
its Presentation Server product line to XenApp.
• The core technology that Microsoft did not buy was the ICA protocol.
Microsoft bought another company to provide the backbone of the RDP
(T.share) protocol that they currently use.
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Citrix Products

• Citrix XenApp (Application Virtualization - formerly Citrix Presentation Server)


• Citrix XenDesktop (Desktop Virtualization, VDI)
• Citrix XenServer (Server Virtualization)
• Citrix NetScaler (Application Optimization, , , Web Application Acceleration)
• Citrix AppDNA
• Citrix Cloud Bridge
• Citrix Share File
• Director (Application Performance Monitoring)
• Citrix UniDesk
• Citrix App Layering

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XenApp and XenDesktop 7.X differ from XenApp 6.5 and previous versions
Instead of this in XenApp 6.5 and Think of this in XenApp and
before: XenDesktop 7.6:
Independent Management FlexCast Management Architecture
Architecture (IMA) (FMA)
Farm Site
Worker Group machine catalog
Delivery Group
Worker Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA)
Server OS machine, Server OS VDA
Desktop OS machine, Desktop OS
VDA
Remote Desktop Services (RDS) or Server OS machine, Server OS VDA
Terminal Services machine
Zone and Data Collector Delivery Controller
Delivery Services Console Citrix Studio and Citrix Director
Publishing applications Delivering applications
Data store Database
Load Evaluator Load Management Policy
Administrator Delegated Administrator
Role
Scope

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Citrix XenApp XenDesktop 7.X Control Plane Servers

1.DDC (Delivery Controller)


2.Director
3.SQL DB Server (Data Store)
4.Hypervisor (VMWARE / Hyper-v/XenServer)
5.NetScaler
6.Citrix License Server

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Citrix XenApp XenDesktop 7.X Control Plane Servers
• Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop delivers virtual Windows applications and virtual desktop sessions as secure mobile services.
• XenDesktop (VDI) – delivers a persistent VDI Windows 10 virtual desktop sessions;
• XenApp (SBC) – Delivers both a virtual hosted desktop sessions and virtual applications;
• Windows 10 equivalent desktop from Windows Server 2016;
• Published Applications

• StoreFront 

StoreFront is a self-service Windows application store and provides a single, simple, and consistent aggregation point for virtual desktops and
virtual applications. Users can subscribe to applications, desktops, or data services from any device and have access to those same
services, even when already in use, from any other device for a seamless and simple experience.

• Machine Creation Services 

Machine Creation Services (MCS) provides image management for the XenApp servers and is based on software-streaming technology. This
technology allows computers to be provisioned and re-provisioned in real-time from a single shared-disk image. In doing so, administrators
can completely eliminate the need to manage and patch individual systems. Instead, all image management is done on the master image.

• NetScaler Gateway 

NetScaler Gateway is a secure application access solution that provides administrators granular application level control while empowering
users with access from anywhere.

• NetScaler Load Balancing

NetScaler will be used to provide load balancing for Citrix infrastructure components such as StoreFront and Delivery Controllers. NetScaler
load balancing provides granular monitoring capabilities to ensure that users are only directed to servers that are fully operational.

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Citrix XenApp XenDesktop 7.X Conceptual Architecture

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Citrix XenApp XenDesktop 7.X Conceptual Architecture

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Citrix XenApp XenDesktop 7.X Conceptual Architecture
• User Layer: There are four distinct delivery groups corresponding to different
sets of users.

• Access Layer: Users access a list of available resources through StoreFront.


For users not on the internal, protected network, like the Office Workers and
Contractors user groups, must establish a SSL encrypted tunnel across
public network links to the NetScaler Gateway, which is deployed within the
DMZ area of the network.

• Resource Layer: Four types of resources are provided to the users:


Pooled Desktops, Personal Desktops, Hosted Apps, Remote PC Access

• Control Layer: The Delivery Controller authenticates users and enumerates


resources from StoreFront while creating, managing and maintaining the
virtual resources. All configuration information about the XenDesktop site is
stored within the SQL database.

• Hardware Layer: The corresponding hosts provides compute and storage


resources to the Resource Layer workloads. One set of hosts centrally
delivers virtual servers and virtual desktops
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Citrix XenApp XenDesktop 7.X Consoles

• Studio Console
• Director Console
• StoreFront Web Server Console
• License Management Console

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Citrix XAXD 7.X Studio Console

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Citrix XAXD 7.X Director Console

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Citrix XAXD 7.X License Console

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Citrix XAXD 7.X StoreFront Console

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Citrix XAXD 7.X DDC Services

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Architecture

• What is ICA ?
• What is IMA & FMA ?
• What is a DataStore ?
• What is a DDC?
• How does each component communicate
through the Ports for the enumeration to
happen.

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ICA

• Short for Independent Computing Architecture, ICA


is a protocol designed specifically for transmitting
Windows graphical display data as well as
keyboard and mouse input over a network.

• Ica port no:1494.

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Independent Management Architecture (IMA)

• Independent Management Architecture (IMA) is the


underlying architecture used in Citrix Presentation
Server for configuring, monitoring, and operating all
Presentation Server functions. The IMA data store
stores all Presentation Server configurations.
• Server-to-server communication occurs over TCP
port 2512
• Presentation Server Management Consle PMC-to-
server communication occurs over TCP port 2513

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FlexCast Management Architecture (FMA)

• FMA is a service-oriented architecture that allows


interoperability and management modularity across
Citrix technologies. FMA provides a platform for
application delivery, mobility, services, flexible
provisioning, and cloud management. FMA replaces
the Independent Management Architecture (IMA) used
in XenApp 6.5.

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Delivery Controllers
• Citrix delivery controllers are responsible for enumerating, allocating,
assigning and maintaining VDI virtual desktops. Delivery Controllers
will be grouped to form a single XenApp site which provides a single
administrative entity for the XenApp environment. 

• The critical design element for the delivery controllers is the provision of
sufficient compute resources to manage the virtual desktop
environment. Additional capacity can be added by either scaling up
(adding more resources to an existing server) or scaling out (adding
additional delivery controllers). 

• A NetScaler load balancer will be used to load balance the delivery


controllers. NetScaler also includes special service monitoring for
checking the health of the delivery controllers.

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Questions?

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