Citrix XenServer 6.5 SP1 Administration Training

Citrix XenServer 6.5 SP1 Administration Training (CXS-300)

Introduction:

Citrix XenServer 6.5 SP1 Administration Training Course with Labs

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With onsite Training, courses can be scheduled on a date that is convenient for you, and because they can be scheduled at your location, you don’t incur travel costs and students won’t be away from home. Onsite classes can also be tailored to meet your needs. You might shorten a 5-day class into a 3-day class, or combine portions of several related courses into a single course, or have the instructor vary the emphasis of topics depending on your staff’s and site’s requirements.

Audience/Target Group

This Citrix XenServer 6.5 SP1 Administration Training course is designed for IT professionals, systems engineers, administrators, and Citrix partners, who need to know how to design, deploy, manage, and support a XenServer enterprise solution.

XenApp/XenDesktop administrators who want to learn how to optimize XenDesktop/XenApp performance or how to troubleshoot issues as well as datacenter administrators who are using XenServer for running many different types of virtual machines will benefit from this class.

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Duration: 5 days

Class Prerequisites:

A basic overall knowledge of virtualization technology
An understanding of computing architecture, including network and storage devices, device drivers and operating systems
Basic knowledge of network devices and site architecture, including configuring VLANs
Basic knowledge of storage terminology and technologies, including partitions, SANs, LUNs, iSCSI, NFS, and CIFS file shares

What You Will Learn:

Understanding XenServer architecture, features, editions and entitlements
Creating and Managing Virtual Machines
Installing and Configuring XenServer
Managing the XenServer Environment
Configuring Resource Pools
Configuring High Availability / Disaster Recovery
Creating and Managing Networks
Configuring Storage
Configuring Security
Understanding Sizing and Design Impact
Troubleshooting the XenServer Environment

Course Content:

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 snapshots

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

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