Detailed Course Outline
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 snapshot
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
- Network interface bonds
- XenServer physical connectivity
Module 7: 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
Module 8: High Availability
- Purpose of high availability
- High availability recommendations
- Detecting a host failure
- High availability recovery process
Module 9: Security
- Integrating with Active Directory
- Understanding role-based access
- Minimizing the attack surface
- Certificates and SSL with XenServer
- XenServer Hypervisor Introspection Direct Inspect API
Module 10: Sizing and Optimizations
- 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
Module 11: Troubleshooting
- XenServer maintenance mode
- Host logs and event notifications
- Xsconsole
- XenTop
- Command line and PowerShell commands
- Using Citrix Insight Services
- Network tracing