CXS-301: Citrix XenServer 7.1 LTSR Administration (Exam Voucher Incl.) - VIRTUAL CLASSES

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Built for IT Professionals who need to design, deploy, manage, and support Citrix XenServer. Potential students include administrators, engineers, or architects working with Citrix XenServer for both XenApp and XenDesktop workloads as well as general infrastructure use.

Niveau atteint

Avancé

Durée

5,00 jour(s)

Langues(s) de prestation

Prochaine session

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Prérequis

This course requires little to no previous experience with Citrix XenServer.

Objectifs

Build a new skill set around Citrix XenServer 7.x focusing on the 7.1 Long Term Services Release, which delivers optimized server virtualization for all datacenter workloads. In this five-day course, you’ll learn how to install, manage, secure, size and troubleshoot an enterprise XenServer implementation. The course will walk you through configuration and administration of the environment, from architecture and virtual machines to resource pools, storage and networking. Key topics will include capabilities such as virtual CPU optimization, VM management, and high availability/disaster recovery, and features such as Intellicache and XenMotion. This course is designed for IT professionals with little or no XenServer experience.

Contenu

Module 1: XenServer Architecture

Describing the XenServer virtualization platform
Product editions and entitlements
XenServer architecture
XenServer key components

Module 2: Managing Virtual Machines

Virtualization techniques
XenTools
Creating virtual machines
Managing virtual machines
Understanding vApps
Managing snapshot

Module 3: Installing XenServer

Hardware requirements
Licensing
Available installation methods
XenServer supplemental packs

Module 4: Managing a XenServer Environment

Deploying hotfixes
Upgrading XenServer
Upgrading XenTools
Monitoring and alerting
Pool metadata backups

Module 5: Resource Pools

Understanding resource pools
XenServer pool master
Pool master election
Workload balancing

Module 6: Networking

XenServer networking architecture
Virtual network types
Network interface bonds
XenServer physical connectivity

Module 7: Storage

XenServer storage architecture
Understanding thick and thin provisioning
Storage locations
File based and block based storage
Storage multipathing
XenServer Intellicache
XenServer in-memory read caching
XenApp and XenDesktop Provisioning enhancements

Module 8: High Availability

Purpose of high availability
High availability recommendations
Detecting a host failure
High availability recovery proces

Module 9: Security

Integrating with Active Directory
Understanding role-based access
Minimizing the attack surface
Certificates and SSL with XenServer
XenServer Hypervisor Introspection Direct Inspect API

Module 10: Sizing and Optimizations

Dom0 sizing
Dom0 in-memory reach caching
Virtual CPU optimization
Device pass-through
Dynamic memory control
Resource scheduling
Network QoS
Disk prioritization
XenServer vGPU and GPU pass-through

Module 11: Troubleshooting

XenServer maintenance mode
Host logs and event notifications
Xsconsole
XenTop
Command line and PowerShell commands
Using Citrix Insight Services
Network tracing

Points abordés

Understand XenServer architecture, features, and leading practices
Configure and manage virtual machines
Install, configure, and manage XenServer and the XenServer environment
Configure Resource Pools and high availability in the XenServer environment
Configure network, storage, and security for XenServer
Troubleshoot the XenServer environment
Exam voucher included.