Understanding the XenApp Server Architecture

Citrix XenApp Server uses server farms to organize and manage servers. This allows you to manage many settings as a unit, rather than apply them individually to each machine. Servers in a farm all connect to the same data store, and generally have some features in common that makes grouping them together logical. Farms also provide a method for application publishing. Publishing an application means to provide it to remote users from the server installation. Within the farm model are the two technologies that make the on-demand enterprise function: Independent Management Architecture (IMA) and Independent Computing Architecture (ICA).

XenApp Server Farms

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