Citrix XenServer 7.1 LTSR Administration (CXS-301) - Outline

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