CVA-500-2 - Architecting a Citrix Virtualization Solution
Course
CVA-500-2
Price:
$5,000.00
Software Assurance Value:
Not Eligible
Duration:
5 Days
Table of Contents
Description
Audience
Prerequisites
Key Skills
Certification
Course Outline
CVA-500-2 Architecting a
Citrix Virtualization Solution
Description
The CVA-500-2 Architecting
a Citrix Virtualization Solution courseware teaches Citrix architects how to
analyze and design a comprehensive Citrix virtualization solution. Based on the
Citrix Consulting Services Methodology, the course will provide students with
the key considerations for managing the project, assessing environment readiness
and risks and designing the appropriate solution according to Citrix best
practices. Students will gain real-world insight from the field and practice
assessment and design exercises based on challenging, enterprise-level
scenarios.
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Audience
This course is intended
for IT professionals, such as Server, Network and Systems Engineers. Systems
Integrators, Systems Administrators and Application Engineers are also
appropriate candidates for this course.
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Prerequisites
The following preparatory
recommendations describe the experience and knowledge students should possess to
ensure successful completion of this course.
Experience with or
understanding of the following Citrix products:
-
Citrix XenAppTM 4.5 or higher
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Citrix XenServerTM 5.0 or higher
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Citrix Provisioning ServicesTM 5.0 or higher
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Citrix XenDesktop 3.0 or higher
-
Citrix Access Gateway Enterprise Edition 9.0 or higher
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Citrix Branch Repeater 5.0 or higher
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Citrix EdgeSight for Endpoints 5.0
-
Citrix EdgeSight for XenApp 5.0
Experience using the
following Windows Server and Microsoft technologies:
- Active Directory
- Terminal Services
- DHCP
- DNS
- Group Policy Objects
- SQL Server
- Performance monitoring tools
- Troubleshooting tools
Experience with, or strong
understanding of, the following:
- Server virtualization, including hypervisor configuration and
virtual machine management tools
- Server hardware, including NIC configuration, power, cooling and
rack enclosure configurations
- Virtual networking, including VLANs and addressing
- Enterprise-level storage technologies
- Citrix XenApp application virtualization
- Citrix XenDesktop, including Provisioning Services
- SSL VPN functionality
Completion of the
following courses or demonstrate equivalent knowledge:
- CXA-201-1 - Implementing Citrix XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2008
- CXS-200-1 - Implementing Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition 5.0
- CXD-200-1 - Implementing Citrix XenDesktop 3
- CXA-300-1 - Advanced Administration for Citrix XenApp 5.0 for
Windows Server 2008
- CVE-400-1 – Engineering a Citrix Virtualization Solution
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Key Skills
Upon completion of this
course, learners are able to:
- Describe the phases of the Citrix Consulting Methodology and
distinguish between Assessment and Design projects.
- Determine the type of information to be collected about the
existing desktop infrastructure and supporting processes.
- Describe how applications can be delivered within a Citrix
virtualization infrastructure.
- Identify the server performance metrics that determine whether a
server is a good virtualization candidate.
- Identify areas of the network architecture that should be included
in an infrastructure assessment.
- Identify which factors to check when assessing security and the
user authentication process.
- Gather data about testing, control and support processes, as well
as user issues, backup and recovery plans in an environment.
- Define the purpose of the conceptual architecture diagram,
documentation and validation process.
- Evaluate and recommend delivery methods for application types.
- Recognize tuning and optimizations that can improve the performance
of the operating system and server.
- Describe the design considerations for the Desktop Delivery
Controller and Citrix XenDesktop farms.
- Identify options for providing Provisioning Services bootstrap
redundancy and available network optimizations for Provisioning Services.
- Determine the optimal shared storage design to provide high
availability for vDisks and the optimal vDisk type to implement in an
environment.
- Determine the appropriate network design for a XenServer
implementation in an environment.
- Determine how to configure an Access Gateway implementation for an
environment.
- Describe general ICA protocol optimization techniques.
- Evaluate design considerations for integrating Branch Repeater into
an Access Gateway design.
- Recognize how risk can impact a virtualization solution.
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Certification Prep
CVA-500-2 prepares
learners for exam 1Y0-A16 Architecting a Citrix Virtualization Solution, one of
the requirements for the CCIA for Virtualization.
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Course Outline
Project Management
- Overview
- Citrix
Consulting Methodology
- Phases
- Analysis
- Design
- Build/Test
- Rollout/Support
- Milestones, Checkpoints and Guidelines
- Assessment and
Design Projects
- Assessment Projects
- Design Projects
- Key Activities
- Project Team Overview
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Requirements and Expectations
- Statement of Work Review
- Project Kickoff
- Requirements Gathering
- Business
Requirements
- Technical
Requirements
- Documentation
- Status Reports
- Risk Memos
- Assessment Documents
- Design Documents
Business Goals
- 3-to-5 Year
Plan
- Growth
- IT Projects
User Community
- User Groups
- Endpoints
- Operating Systems
- New Endpoints
- Replaced Endpoints
- Repurposed Endpoints
- Reused Endpoints
- Usage Habits
- User Locations
- User
Satisfaction
Operating System Delivery
- Desktop Images
- Image Build
Process
- Desktop
Maintenance
Application Delivery
- General
Applications
- Productivity suites
- Foundational applications
- Special
Applications
- Resource Intensive
- Challenging
- Custom
- Application
User Groups
- Application
Virtualization
- Virtualized Applications
- Architecture
- Virtual Application Delivery
Server Virtualization
- Current
Solution
- Physical
Server Assessment
- Data collection
- Excluded Servers from Virtualization
- Consolidation Scenarios
Infrastructure
- Server
Hardware
- Network
Architecture
- Windows Server
and Active Directory
- Enterprise
Storage
- Databases
Security and Personalization
- Authentication
- Permissions
- A/V
- Logon Scripts
- Profiles
- Active
Directory Policies
Operations and Support
- Monitoring and
Management
- Testing and
Change Control
- Support
- Disaster
Recovery
Conceptual Architecture
- Executive
Summary
- Enterprise
Design
Virtualization Infrastructure Design
- Virtualized
Components
- Server
Hardware
- Hardware Configuration
- Blade Considerations
- Network
Configuration
- Addressing and VLANs
- NIC Performance and Redundancy
- Network Terminology
- Internal and External Networks
- Physical Network Connectivity
- High
Availability
- Storage
- Capacity and Performance
- Storage Types
- Storage Terminology
- Resource Pool
Design
- Capacity
Planning
- Physical
Server Migration
Operating System Delivery Design
- Provisioning
Services Operating System
- Hardware
- Capacity
Planning
- HA
- Cache
- Farm Design
- A/V
- Bootstrap
Redundancy
- Device
Collections
- Optimization
- SQL Database
- vDisk Storage
Location
- Enterprise
Storage
- vDisk Type
- Write Cache
Encryption
Application Delivery Design
- Applications
- Integration
- Application
Streaming Cache
- Without Caching
- Pre-Caching
- Optimizations
Desktop Delivery Design
- Desktop
Delivery Controller
- Farm Design
- Virtual
Machine Specifications
- Desktop Groups
- Desktop Images
- Internal and External Users
- Pooled Users
- Dedicated Users
- Profiles
Design
- Policy Design
- Desktop
Monitoring
Access Design
- Resource
Delivery
- Access
Scenarios
- Internal Site Access
- External Site
Access
- Access Gateway
Deployment Modes
- Server Load
Balancing
Delivery Optimization
- ICA
Acceleration
- Bandwidth Allocation
- Compression
- Quality of Service
- Virtual Channels
- WAN
Acceleration
- ICA Traffic Types
- Printing Traffic
- File Access Traffic
- Multimedia Traffic
- Display Traffic
- Application Types
- Branch Repeater Deployment Modes
- Hardware Architecture
- Network Architecture
- Infrastructure Services
- Branch
Repeater and Access Gateway Integration
- Deployment Modes
- Branch Repeater with Access Gateway in One-arm Mode
- Branch Repeater Alternative Mode
- Repeater Plug-in Integration
- Acceleration Rules
- HTTP Traffic Considerations
- Firewall Rules
- Roaming Branch Users
Business Continuity Design
- Component
Failover
- Site Failover
Capstone Exercise
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