CTXXD400 – Designing App and Desktop Solutions with Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6

Progettato per formare le competenze necessarie a progettare una soluzione XenApp e XenDesktop completa, in ambiente Windows 2012R2. Durante il corso si analizzeranno a fondo tutti i componenti di una soluzione Citrix completa per l’accesso ad applicazioni e desktop. Il corso è basato sulla versione 7.6 del prodotto, ma gli skills e i concetti fondamentali sono validi in buona parte per tutte le versioni. Il corso prepara a sostenere l’esame per le certificazione CCE-V (Citrix Certified Expert– Virtualization).

PROGRAMMA DEL CORSO

Architecture

• Identify the various components included in the XenApp/XenDesktop architecture
• Determine how the various components communicate and which protocols they are using
• Apply architectural understanding to desktop virtualization solutions
• Troubleshoot desktop virtualization design

Business Drivers

• Identify specific business drivers for multiple verticals
• Facilitate a discussion with the project team at an organization to prioritize business drivers

Data Capture

• Identify best strategy for data collection given a specific organizational environment.
• Identify the types of application data to collect, the method for collecting them, and application data collection tools

User Segmentation

• Identify the different FlexCast models
• Identify considerations in selecting the most appropriate method for segmenting user

Application Assessment

• Understand the process of application assessment
• Demonstrate rationalization of applications in a given case organization
• Assess a suite of applications based on business needs and compatibility to a given XenApp/XenDesktop delivery model.

Project Management

• Understand the importance of project management for a successful implementation
• Identify roles for a project plan

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

Receiver

• Define how applications will be delivered
• Design Citrix Receiver deployment and maintenance

Resource Requirements Recommendations

• Identify recourse requirements
• Make key design decisions regarding resource recommendation

Access

• Design an authentication point 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

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

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 XenApp/XenDesktop environment
• Design an application delivery strategy

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
• Identify the XenDesktop user and virtual desktop baseline policies

Networking Layer

• Make key high availability design decisions
• Integrate the XenApp/XenDesktop infrastructure with the network infrastructure
• Understand WAN optimization, Multistream ICA,and DHCP functionality

Storage and Provisioning Layer

• Make key design decisions regarding storage solutions
• Identify the features and differences between PVS and MCS
• Design a provisioning strategy with either PVS or MCS

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

Operational

• Understand potential migration approaches
• Design a system monitoring strategy
• Make key design decisions regarding application delivery: Migration approach, Backup and System Monitoring

Verification

• Verify assess and design decisions using Citrix online tools
• Develop a complete stakeholder presentation
• Effectively present and support design decisions