Introduction
Audience
Prerequisites
- Intermediate knowledge of Citrix Desktop Virtualization Components/Concepts
- Basic understanding of project management and documentation best practices
- Basic presentation skills
- Windows Server Knowledge (Windows Server 2012 R2) including Active Directory & DHCP
- Basic Networking Knowledge
- SQL Server - General understanding of databases, permissions, security, high availability
- General understanding of physical and virtual storage NAS, SAN, SSD & CIFS
- Familiarity with hypervisor technologies (XenServer, Hyper-V, or vSphere)
- Completed XenApp and/or XenDesktop Introduction and Deploying courses or can demonstrate equivalent knowledge
At course completion
- Identify the various components and communication protocols of the XenApp/XenDesktop architecture
- Apply architectural understanding to desktop virtualization solutions
- Conduct an organizational assessment focusing on business capabilities and requirements, applications, and users
- Design desktop virtualization solutions
- Verify and present design recommendations
- Troubleshoot desktop virtualization designs
Exams
This course prepares for the 1Y0-401 exam: "Designing XenDesktop 7 Solutions exam, the requirement for the Citrix Certified Expert - Virtualization certification".
Course outline
Lesson 1: Identify the various components included in the XenDesktop 7 architecture
Lesson 2: Determine how the various components communicate and which protocols they are using
Lesson 3: Apply architectural understanding to desktop virtualization solutions
Lesson 4: Troubleshoot desktop virtualization design
Module 2: Business Drivers
Lesson 1: Identify specific business drivers for multiple verticals
Lesson 2: Facilitate a discussion with the project team at an organization to prioritize business drivers
Module 3: Data Capture
Lesson 1: Identify best strategy for data collection given a specific organizational environment.
Lesson 2: Identify the types of application data to collect, the method for collecting them, and application data collection tools
Module 4: User Segmentation
Lesson 1: Identify the different FlexCast models
Lesson 2: Identify considerations in selecting the most appropriate method for segmenting users
Module 5: Application Assessment
Lesson 1: Understand the process of application assessment
Lesson 2: Demonstrate rationalization of applications in a given case organization
Lesson 3: Assess a suite of applications based on business needs and compatibility to a given XenDesktop delivery model
Module 6: Project Management
Lesson 1: Understand the importance of project management for a successful implementation
Lesson 2: Identify roles for a project plan
Module 7: User Design
Lesson 1: Make key decisions regarding user groups and device (endpoint) design
Lesson 2: Organize user groups for Design document
Lesson 3: Identify and prioritize top user issues
Lesson 4: Design user profile strategy
Lesson 5: Design a printing strategy
Module 8: Receiver
Lesson 1: Define how applications will be delivered
Lesson 2: Design Citrix Receiver deployment and maintenance
Module 9: Resource Req. Recommendations
Lesson 1: Identify recourse requirements
Lesson 2: Make key design decisions regarding resource recommendations
Module 10: Access
Lesson 1: Design an authentication point (Storefront and NetScaler Gateway) strategy
Lesson 2: Determine session and access policies, including user authentication and remote access
Lesson 3: Design virtual desktop operating systems access
Lesson 4: Calculate bandwidth for the desktop virtualization solution
Module 11: Desktop
Lesson 1: Make key design decisions regarding machine catalogs and groups
Lesson 2: Design a personalization strategy including user profiles, user policies and personal vDisk usage.
Lesson 3: Design an appropriate printing strategy
Module 12: Application Delivery
Lesson 3: Design an application delivery strategy
Module 13: Desktop Delivery
Lesson 1: Design a Desktop delivery topology, including Sites, XenDesktop Controllers per site, and load balancing
Lesson 2: Design the underlying infrastructure, including database selection, license servers and Active Directory Integration
Lesson 3: Identify the XenDesktop user and virtual desktop baseline policies
Module 14: Networking Layer
Lesson 1: Make key high availability design decisions
Lesson 2: Integrate the XenDesktop infrastructure with the network infrastructure
Lesson 3: Understand WAN optimization, Multistream ICA, and DHCP functionality
Module 15: Storage and Provisioning Layer
Lesson 1: Make key design decisions regarding storage solutions
Lesson 2: Identify the features and differences between PVS and MCS
Lesson 3: Design a provisioning strategy with either PVS or MCS
Module 16: Platform Layer
Lesson 1: Make key design decisions regarding the hypervisor to be used in desktop virtualization solutions
Lesson 2: Make accurate hardware calculations, including VDI hardware, shared hardware, application hardware, and control hardware
Module 17: Operational
Lesson 1: Understand potential migration approaches
Lesson 2: Design a system monitoring strategy
Lesson 3: Make key design decisions regarding decisions regarding application delivery
Lesson 4: Migration approach
Lesson 5: Backup and System Monitoring
Lesson 6: Backup
Lesson 7: System Monitoring
Module 18: Verification
Lesson 1: Verify assess and design decisions using Citrix online tools
Lesson 2: Develop a complete stakeholder presentation
Lesson 3: Effectively present and support design decisions
Lesson 4: Capstone Exercise
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