Duration: 5 Days
Learn to successfully assess and design a XenDesktop 7 app and desktop solution based on the top key projects and architectures that a majority of Citrix customers implement, across different industries and use cases. You may also have an opportunity to build a design for your organization, and you will have access to all of the tools and reference materials required to support your work.
Certification:
This course prepares you for the 1Y1-400 Designing Citrix XenDesktop 7 Solutions exam, a requirement for the Citrix Certified Expert - Apps and Desktops certification. This exam and certification are currently in development and are expected to release in Q4 2013.
What You Will Learn
- Identify the various components and communication protocols of the Excalibur 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
Audience
This course is recommended for desktop virtualization solution designers such as architects, consultants, and engineers.
Prerequistes
Before taking this course, Citrix recommends that students have:
- 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), including Active Directory and DHCP
- Basic networking knowledge
- Knowledge of SQL Server and general understanding of databases, permissions, security, and high availability
- General understanding of physical and virtual storage, including NAS, SAN, SSD, and CIFS
- Familiarity with hypervisor technologies (XenServer, Hyper-V, or vSphere)
- Completion of or equivalent knowledge of topics covered in:
- Introduction to XenDesktop 7 (CXD-102)
Course Outline
1. Architecture
- Various components included in the XenDesktop 7 architecture
- How the various components communicate and which protocols they are using
- Apply architectural understanding to desktop virtualization solutions
- Troubleshoot desktop virtualization design
2. Business Drivers
- Specific business drivers for multiple verticals
- Facilitate a discussion with the project team at an organization to prioritize business drivers
3. Data Capture
- Best strategy for data collection given a specific organizational environment.
- Types of application data to collect, the method for collecting them, and application data collection tools
4. User Segmentation
- FlexCast models
- Selecting the most appropriate method for segmenting users
5. Application Assessment
- Process of application assessment
- Rationalization of applications in a given case organization
- Assess a suite of applications based on business needs and compatibility to a given XenDesktop delivery model
6. Project Management
- Importance of project management for a successful implementation
- Roles for a project plan
7. User Design
- Make key decisions regarding user groups and device (endpoint) design
- Organize user groups for design document
- Identify and prioritize top user issues
- Design user profile strategy
- Design a printing strategy
8. Receiver
- Define how applications will be delivered
- Design Citrix Receiver deployment and maintenance
9. Resource Req. Recommendations
- Identify recourse requirements
- Make key design decisions regarding resource recommendations
10. Access
- Design an authentication point (Storefront and NetScaler Gateway) strategy
- Determine session and access policies, including user authentication and remote access
- Design virtual desktop operating systems access
- Calculate bandwidth for the desktop virtualization solution
11. Desktop
- Make key design decisions regarding machine catalogs and groups
- Design a personalization strategy including user profiles, user policies, and personal vDisk usage
- Design an appropriate printing strategy
12. Application Delivery
- Design a solution that meets application inventory and integration requirements
- Identify characteristics of the applications that will impact placement as well as the application delivery architecture for the XenDesktop environment
- Design an application delivery strategy
13. Desktop Delivery
- Design a Desktop delivery topology, including Sites, XenDesktop Controllers per site, and load balancing
- Design the underlying infrastructure, including database selection, license servers and Active Directory Integration
- XenDesktop user and virtual desktop baseline policies
14. Networking Layer
- Make key high availability design decisions
- Integrate the XenDesktop infrastructure with the network infrastructure
- WAN optimization, Multistream ICA, and DHCP functionality
15. Storage and Provisioning Layer
- Make key design decisions regarding storage solutions
- Features of and differences between PVS and MCS
- Design a provisioning strategy with either PVS or MCS
16. Platform Layer
- Make key design decisions regarding the hypervisor to be used in desktop virtualization solutions
- Make accurate hardware calculations, including VDI hardware, shared hardware, application hardware, and control hardware
17. Operational
- Potential migration approaches
- Design a system monitoring strategy
- Make key design decisions regarding decisions regarding application delivery
- Migration approach
- Backup and System Monitoring
18. Verification
- Verify assess and design decisions using Citrix online tools
- Develop a complete stakeholder presentation
- Effectively present and support design decisions
19. Capstone Exercise
Course Labs
You will participate in labs throughout the course.
