CXS-200-1l Implementing Citrix XenServer Enterprise Edition 5.0
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Course Overview
  This course prepares learners to deploy and manage XenServer Enterprise Edition 5.0 and XenCenter. Through hands-on labs, learners will gain experience in installing and configuring a virtualization server and connecting to the server with XenCenter; creating virtual machines and managing virtual machine life-cycle operations; and creating a XenServer resource pool and connecting to remote storage.
In addition, learners will explore advanced XenServer capabilities such as XenMotion and automatic virtual machine placement.

Objectives
  Upon successful completion of this course, learners are able to:
  • Describe the difference between Xen hypervisor and other virtualization methods
  • Describe the difference between Xen open source project and XenServer commercial products
  • Install XenServer Enterprise Edition 5.0 and configure CPU, network and storage resources
  • Install XenCenter
  • Create virtual machines and templates
  • Identify and explain the uses for XenConvert
  • Manage virtual machine resources and life cycle operations
  • Perform searches to sort searching and grouping in XenCenter and view VM performance statistics
  • Configure local and remote storage
  • Configure resource pools and move virtual machines from one server to another
  • Identify the requirements for high availability and disaster recovery
  • Identify the purpose and functionality of the xe CLI and perform basic commands
  • Identify and view tools for upgrading and troubleshooting XenServer Enterprise Edition 5.0

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

Prerequisites
  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


Course Number
  CTCXS-200-1l
Course Length
  2 Days

Course Price
  $2,195.00
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Topics
   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
    • High availability
    • Disaster recovery
    Command Line Interface
    • Accessing and understanding the xe CLI
    • Using basic commands to create objects and perform maintenance
    Troubleshooting
    • Viewing event logs and reports
    • Identifying tools
    • Upgrades and patches