Course Description
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 course, students will learn how to install, manage, secure, size and troubleshoot an enterprise XenServer implementation. The course will walk students 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
What Do Participants Learn?
Understand XenServer architecture, features, and leading practices
Configure and manage virtual machinesInstall, configure, and manage XenServer and the XenServer environmentConfigure Resource Pools and high availability in the XenServer environmentConfigure network, storage, and security for XenServerTroubleshoot the XenServer environment Who Should Attend?
IT professionals with little or no XenServer experience.
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section One: XENSERVER ARCHITECTURE
- Describing the XenServer virtualization platform
- Product editions and entitlements
- XenServer architecture
- XenServer key components
- Managing Virtual Machines
- Virtualization techniques
- XenTools
- Creating virtual machines
- Managing virtual machines
- Understanding vApps
- Managing snapshot
Section Two: INSTALLING XENSERVER
- Hardware requirements
- Licensing
- Available installation methods
- XenServer supplemental packs
- Managing A Xenserver Environment
- Deploying hotfixes
- Upgrading XenServer
- Upgrading XenTools
- Monitoring and alerting
- Pool metadata backups
- Understanding resource pools
- XenServer pool master
- Pool master election
- Workload balancing
Section Three: NETWORKING
- XenServer networking architecture
- Virtual network types
- Network interface bonds
- XenServer physical connectivity
- 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
Section Four: HIGH AVAILABILITY
- Purpose of high availability
- High availability recommendations
- Detecting a host failure
- High availability recovery process
- Security
- Integrating with Active Directory
- Understanding role-based access
- Minimizing the attack surface
- Certificates and SSL with XenServer
- XenServer Hypervisor Introspection Direct Inspect API
Section Five: SIZING AND OPTIMISATIONS
- 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
- XenServer maintenance mode
- Host logs and event notifications
- Xsconsole
- XenTop
- Command-line and PowerShell commands
- Using Citrix Insight Services
- Network tracing