Overview
Prerequisites:
There are no preparatory recommendations for this course
Course Description:
Topics covered in this course include designing a farm; creating, assigning and administering vDisks; managing target devices and other farm components; and configuring high availability.
This course is intended for IT professionals, such as server, network and system administrators. System engineers, analysts, consultants, architects and Citrix Solution Advisors are appropriate candidates for this course.
Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to perform the following:
- Identify the components, infrastructure, services and communications of Citrix Provisioning Server 5.0
- Identify s…
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Description
Prerequisites:
There are no preparatory recommendations for this course
Course Description:
Topics covered in this course include designing a farm;
creating, assigning and administering vDisks; managing target
devices and other farm components; and configuring high
availability.
This course is intended for IT professionals, such as server,
network and system administrators. System engineers, analysts,
consultants, architects and Citrix Solution Advisors are
appropriate candidates for this course.
Upon successful completion of this course, learners will be able to
perform the following:
- Identify the components, infrastructure, services and
communications of Citrix Provisioning Server 5.0
- Identify system requirements and install Citrix Provisioning
Server 5.0
- Configure a Provisioning Server farm
- Configure Provisioning Server role-based administration using
Active Directory user groups
- Create a vDisk store
- Identify vDisk image modes and write cache types
- Create a vDisk
- Configure a Master Target Device and create a vDisk image
- Assign vDisks to target devices and enable Active Directory
machine account password management
- Block ports for a target device, organize target devices into
views and change the properties of target devices
- Administer vDisk connections; unassign, delete and backup
vDisks; release vDisk locks; change vDisk properties and update a
vDisk
- Administer server connections, change basic server properties
and optimize performance by changing advanced server
properties
- Configure two methods of high availability
- Install and enable printers on a vDisk and enable the Printer
Management feature
This course includes the following modules:
Introducing Citrix Provisioning Server
- Explaining the purpose of the Provisioning Server
components
- Identifying the Provisioning Server infrastructure Identifying
the Provisioning Server and network services required to boot
target devices
- Explaining how a target device boots over the network to a
Provisioning Server vDisk
Planning an Installation
- Identifying the roles of DHCP and Proxy DHCP Recognizing when
to use a Proxy DHCP service Designing a Provisioning Server
farm
- Identifying Active Directory group requirements and Console
permissions for Provisioning Server role-based administration
- Identifying Provisioning Server system requirements
Installation and Configuration
- Installing Provisioning Server
- Making appropriate installation decisions Configuring
Provisioning Server
- Making appropriate configuration decisions Configuring
role-based administration
- Adding sites to a farm and configuring site properties
- Adding servers to a site
- Creating a store and configuring store properties Creating
device collections and configuring device collection
properties
Creating vDisks
- Identifying vDisk image modes
- Identifying write cache types
- Creating a vDisk file
- Assigning a vDisk to a target device
- Mounting, formatting and unmounting a vDisk
Configuring a Master Target Device
- Adding a Master Target Device to the Console Assigning a vDisk
to a target device
- Identifying system requirements for a target device
- Building an image
Administering Target Devices
- Adding target devices
- Adding target devices to a device collection using a template,
Configuring auto-add
- Importing a target device
- Streaming vDisks to target devices
- Organizing target devices into views
- Configuring and copy target device properties Configuring Port
Blocker, Integrating Provisioning Server with Active Directory
Administering vDisks
- Adding an existing vDisk to the Console Unassigning a
vDisk
- Deleting a vDisk
- Releasing a vDisk lock
- Copying vDisk properties
- Updating a vDisk
Administering Servers
- Viewing server connections 2
- Administering server connections
- Rebalancing server connections
- Configuring basic and advanced server properties Copying server
properties to another server
Configuring High Availability
- Explaining the difference between distributed HA and
centralized HA configurations
- Adding additional servers to the bootstrap file Enabling the HA
option on a vDisk
- Enabling load balancing on a vDisk
- Configuring store path overrides for a distributed HA
configuration
- Configuring access to a Windows shared storage location for a
centralized HA configuration Configuring NTFS security permissions
for a Windows shared storage location for a centralized HA
configuration
- Testing HA failover
Managing Printers
- Installing printers on a vDisk
- Enabling the Printer Management feature
- Enabling printers on a vDisk
