CXD-400 Designing Citrix XenDesktop 7 Solutions
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In London, Reading, Harrogate and another venue.
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This course provides students with the ability 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.
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- Citrix
- IT
- AS/400
Course programme
- Identify the various components included in the XenDesktop 7 architecture
- Determine how the various components communicate and which protocols they are using
- Apply architectural understanding to desktop virtualization solutions
- Troubleshoot desktop virtualization design
- Identify specific business drivers for multiple verticals
- Facilitate a discussion with the project team at an organization to prioritize business drivers
- 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
- Identify the different FlexCast models
- Identify considerations in selecting the most appropriate method for segmenting users
- 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 XenDesktop delivery model
- Understand the importance of project management for a successful implementation
- Identify roles for a project plan
- 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
- Define how applications will be delivered
- Design Citrix Receiver deployment and maintenance
- Identify recourse requirements
- Make key design decisions regarding resource recommendations
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Make key high availability design decisions
- Integrate the XenDesktop infrastructure with the network infrastructure
- Understand WAN optimization, Multistream ICA, and DHCP functionality
- 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
- 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
- Understand potential migration approaches
- Design a system monitoring strategy
- Make key design decisions regarding decisions regarding application delivery
- Migration approach
- Backup and System Monitoring
- Backup
- System Monitoring
- Verify assess and design decisions using Citrix online tools
- Develop a complete stakeholder presentation
- Effectively present and support design decisions
CXD-400 Designing Citrix XenDesktop 7 Solutions