Setting up the Citrix® infrastructure components
You must be aware of the fact that Citrix reintroduced Citrix XenApp in the version Citrix XenApp 7.5 with the new FMA-based architecture, replacing IMA. In this chapter, we will be setting up different Citrix components so that they can deliver the applications.
As this is proof of concept, I will be setting up almost all the Citrix components on the single Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 machine, where it is recommended that in the production environment, you should keep the Citrix components such as License Server, Delivery Controller, and StoreFront. These need to be installed on separate servers to avoid a single point of failure and provide better performance.
The components that we will be setting up in this chapter are:
- Delivery Controller: This Citrix component will act as broker, and the main function is to assign users to a server, based on their selection of application published.
- License Server: This will assign the license to the...
