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Engineering a Citrix Virtualization Solution
| | | | Course Number: | CTX-VE400 | | Length: | 5 Day |  | | Price: | $5,000.00 | | | |
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| | | The Engineering a Citrix Virtualization Solution course provides students with the foundation necessary to effectively plan for and perform the tasks necessary to successfully incorporate a complete Citrix virtualization solution into a Windows Server 2008 environment.
Upon course completion, students will be able to integrate key Citrix virtualization technologies, including XenServer, XenApp, Provisioning Services, and XenDesktop, to create an end-to-end virtualization solution. The highly hands-on curriculum includes exercises that also teach students best practices for securing the environment, monitoring the different components in the environment, backing-up critical systems, and updating and patching applications and virtualized servers. |
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Included Citrix Technologies
The exercises for this course include hands-on integration of the following Citrix core and component products:
- XenServer 6.0
- Provisioning Services 6.0
- XenApp 6.5
- XenDesktop 5.5
- EdgeSight 5.4 (for Endpoints and XenApp)
- Access Gateway VPX
- NetScaler VPX
- Profile management 4.0
- Single Sign-on 5.0
- Merchandising Server 2.2
Certification Preparation This course prepares learners for the 1Y1-A25 Engineering a Citrix Virtualization Solution exam, a requirement for the CCEE for Virtualization (This exam and certification are currently in development and are expected to release in Q2 2012).
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Upon completion of this course, learners are able to:
- Prepare the storage NICs, resource pools, and networking configurations for a XenServer host.
- Configure Provisioning Services for the environment.
- Migrate an existing XenApp farm and provision new XenApp servers.
- Manage user personalization settings with Citrix Profile management.
- Create a master virtual desktop for XenDesktop.
- Configuring Access Gateway VPX.
- Increasing password security using Single Sign-on.
- Monitor the virtualized environment with Citrix EdgeSight.
- Reducing power consumption with Power and Capacity Management.
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Audience |
This course is intended for IT professionals, such as Server, Network and Systems Engineers. Systems Integrators, Systems Administrators and Application Engineers are also appropriate candidates for this course.
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Prerequisites |
Before taking this course, Citrix recommends that learners possess the following:
- Experience using the following Citrix products:
- Citrix XenServer 5.6 or higher
- Citrix Provisioning Services 5.6 or higher
- Citrix XenApp 6.0 or higher
- Citrix XenDesktop 5.0 or higher
- Experience using Windows Server 2008, including:
- Active Directory
- Terminal Services
- DHCP
- DNS
- Performance Monitoring
- Troubleshooting
- Base OS, including server roles
- Group Policy Objects
- Experience using Microsoft SQL Server
- Completion of the following courses or demonstrate equivalent knowledge:
- CXS-203-1 - Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration
- CXA-206-1 - Citrix XenApp 6.5 Administration
- CXA-301-1 - Citrix XenApp 6.5 Advanced Administration
- CXD-202-1 - Citrix XenDesktop 5 Administration
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XenServer Integration
- ISO Storage
- Pre-Installation Considerations
- Optimizing XenServer
Provisioning Services Integration
- Network Support of Streaming
- vDisk Types
- High Availability
- Write-Cache Location
- Optimizations
XenApp Integration
- Provisioning Services with XenApp
- XenApp Configurations
- Profile Management
- XenApp Security
- XenApp Farm Migration
XenDesktop Integration
- Virtual Desktop Components
- Capacity Planning
- Application Delivery Methods in a Virtual Desktop
- XenDesktop Security
Virtual Environment Monitoring
- EdgeSight
- Monitoring Best Practices
Virtual Environment Maintenance
- XenApp, XenDesktop, and Virtual Machine Backup
- Protecting Critical Systems
- Signle Sign-on
- Workflow Studio Overview
- Power and Capacity Management
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