Course Overview
Designed for experienced IT professionals, this course expands the foundational administrative skills by introducing scalability, redundancy, and advanced configurations. You will learn to build and combine App Layers to optimize management of your app and desktop images. You will learn how to implement Workspace Environment Management to improve logon times, centralize user settings management, and optimize the performance of machines. Additionally, in this course you will learn how to use tools for monitoring and troubleshooting a CVAD environment. You'll learn advanced use-cases for Citrix Direct and learn about uberAgent and ow to install, manage and configure Splunk, ESA and UXM dashboards and the uberAgent plug-in. You'll also understand core-architecture and traffic flows as they relate to common breakpoints and the tools to identify issues.
Who should attend
Administrators and Engineers
Prerequisites
Strong foundational knowledge of:
- Windows Server and Desktop operating systems.
- Active Directory, Policies, Profiles, Networking and Hypervisors.
Course Objectives
- How to implement advanced administration concepts such as backups, disaster recovery, scalability, and redundancy for a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop Site
- Create, administer, and manage App Layering OS, platform, application, elastic, and user layers.
- Integrate Citrix App Layering into a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop deployment.
- Install and initialize WEM and integrate into Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and Citrix DaaS.
- Configure WEM features to improve the end user environment and virtual resource consumption.
- Migrate an on-premises WEM deployment to WEM service.
- Identify tools available for monitoring and troubleshooting Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop.
- Examine advanced use cases for Citrix Director, including infrastructure monitoring, application probing, session recording, and integration with NetScaler Console/HDX Insight.
- Install, Configure, and Manage Citrix uberAgent.
- Understand advanced architectures and communication flows to aid with troubleshooting a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop Site.
Course Content
- Intro to CVAD Advanced Configuration, Redundancy, and Scalability
- Manage CVAD Multiple Locations
- Backups and Disaster Recovery
- Intro to WEM Architecture Components
- WEM Deployment and Initial Installation
- WEM System and Log On Optimization
- WEM Security and Lockdown Features
- The WEM Agent
- WEM Monitoring, Reporting, and Troubleshooting
- Upgrading WEM and Migration to WEM Service
- Intro to App Layering and Architecture Overview
- OS, Platform, and App Layers
- Elastic App and User Layers
- Layer Priority and Maintaining an App Layering Environment
- Citrix Tools for Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and Automation
- Monitoring CVAD with Citrix Director
- Activity Monitoring with Session Recording
- Citrix Director and NetScaler Console Integration
- Install, Configure, and Manage Citrix uberAgent
- Introduction to Troubleshooting
- Troubleshoot Access Issues
- Troubleshoot Delivery Controller Issues
- Troubleshoot Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) Registration Issues
- Troubleshoot HDX Connections