CXS-200-1I Implementing Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition 5.0

Duration: 16 hours

Audience:

This course is designed for IT professionals, Architects, Systems Engineers and Citrix Partner Network members.

Preparatory Recommendations:

Prior to taking this course, Citrix recommends that learners possess the following knowledge and experience:
• A basic knowledge of the purpose and goals of virtualization technology
• An understanding of computing architecture, including network and storage devices, device drivers and operating systems
• Basic experience installing and administering Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008
• Basic experience installing and administering Linux variants
• Intermediate knowledge of network devices and site architecture, including configuring vLANs
• Basic knowledge of storage terminology and technologies, including partitions, SANs, LUNs, iSCSI, and NFS and CIFS file shares

Outline:

Provided is the topic outline for CXS-200-1I:
Virtualization Overview
• Benefits
• Types of virtualization

Product Overview
• Product architecture
• Architecture features

Product Installation
•    Hardware requirements
•    Installing XenServer
•    Installing XenCenter

Windows Virtual Machines
•    Creating ISO libraries
•    Architecture
•    Creating Windows VMs

Linux Virtual Machines
•    Architecture
•    Creating Linux VMs

Templates and Life-cycle Operations
•    VM templates
•    Life-cycle 0perations
• XenConvert

Resource Management
•    Offline and online adjustment
•    Enhanced resource controls
•    Alerts and performance statistics

Networking
•    Physical networking
•    Virtual networking
•    NIC bonds

Storage
•    Physical storage
•    Virtual storage

Remote Storage
•    Fibre Channel
•    iSCSI
•    NFS
•    NetApp
•    Multipathing

Resource Pools
•    Resource pool architecture
•    Working with pools
•    Configuring resource pools
•    Automatic VM placement
•    XenMotion live migration

Business Continuity
o High availability
o Disaster recovery

Command Line Interface
o Accessing and understanding the xe CLI
o Using basic commands to create objects and perform maintenance

Troubleshooting
o Viewing event logs and reports
o Identifying tools
o Upgrades and patches