What are the different types of Citrix Load Evaluators and how it works?

1. CPU Utilization
2. Memory Utilization
3. Page Swap
4. Application User Load
5. Context Switches
6. Disk Data I/O
7. Disk Operations
8. IP Range
9. Page Faults
10. Scheduling
11. Server User Load

QFARM /LOAD command executed in a Presentation Server farm will display all servers in the farm along with each server’s respective load value. Each and every Presentation Server generates its own “score” and sends this information to the data collector in the respective zone. This score will be a decimal number between 0 and 10,000, with zero representing a “no load” situation, and 10,000 indicating the particular server is fully loaded and is not accepting any more connections. Citrix Load Management is handled by load evaluator and its simply a set of rules that determine a particular server’s “score”, or current load value. It is the “score” that determine the decisions that distribute loads within the server farm. Load evaluators can be applied to servers and/or published applications. If any servers in the Zone go down then Load Evaluators are used to overcome the situation. In default XenApp installation there are Advanced and Default Load Evaluators are there.D
Default Load Evaluator includes only two rules, Load Throttling and Server User Load.
Advanced Load Evaluator includes four rules, CPU Utilization, Load Throttling, Memory Usual and Page Swaps.

Preferred Load balancing is the feature in XenApp Platinum edition, which allows you to configure preference for the particular users to access the applications in the XenApp farm.
We can see this in Server properties in Advanced Management Console. In Memory/CPU > CPU Utilization Management, there will be the third option called “CPU sharing based on Resource Allotments”
To give more resources to particular application in the server, we can configure in Application properties > Advanced > Limits and Application important in Access Management Console. So if you set the Application importance to High, then when those application is used by the users will get more CPU cycles than the users accessing other applications

To give more resources to the users, we can configure it in Citrix Policies in XenApp Advanced Configuration. To enable it go to the policy properties > Service Level > Session Importance > enable, and assign preferred Importance Level (High, Medium, Low)

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About Murugan B Iyyappan

Working as a Consultant - Citrix solutions architect with 18 years of experience in the IT industry. Expertise in Citrix products and Windows platform.
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