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5.3.7 Hosted Shared Desktops Environment Configuration
Figure 38 details the Hosted Shared Desktop on XenApp performance testing setup at the Cisco labs. All
components including the infrastructure roles were virtualized using Citrix XenServer.
Figure 38. Citrix XenApp Scalability Testing on Cisco UCS B200 M2 Blade Server
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Login VSI Launcher setup. Login VSI 2.1 launcher setup, with one master and multiple member launchers,
was used to launch simulated user connections to the shared desktop of the Citrix XenApp servers. The
VSI launchers utilized Citrix Receiver to launch ICA connections to multiple XenApp servers using Active
Directory test user accounts.
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Virtualized Citrix XenApp VMs. Citrix XenApp 6 VMs were virtualized on Citrix XenServer 5.6 and the tests
were performed using the default shadow memory optimization settings for XenApp workloads as shown in
Figure 39.