This course runs for a duration of 5 Days.
The class will run daily from 10 AM ET to 5:30 PM ET.
Class Location: Virtual LIVE Instructor Led - Virtual Live Classroom.
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 Director and learn about uberAgent and how 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.
When you complete this course, you will be able to:
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.
Audience:
For experienced Citrix admins and engineers. Candidates will have a strong foundational knowledge of Windows Server and Desktop operating systems as well as Active Directory, Policies, Profiles, Networking, and Hypervisors.
Module 1: Intro to CVAD Advanced Configuration, Redundancy, and Scalability
Module 2: Manage CVAD Multiple Locations
Module 3: Backups and Disaster Recovery
Module 4: Intro to WEM Architecture Components
Module 5: WEM Deployment and Initial Installation
Module 6: WEM System and Log On Optimization
Module 7: WEM Security and Lockdown Features
Module 8: The WEM Agent
Module 9: WEM Monitoring, Reporting, and Troubleshooting
Module 10: Upgrading WEM and Migration to WEM Service
Module 11: Intro to App Layering and Architecture Overview
Module 12: OS, Platform, and App Layers
Module 13: Elastic App and User Layers
Module 14: Layer Priority and Maintaining an App Layering Environment
Module 15: Citrix Tools for Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and Automation
Module 16: Monitoring CVAD with Citrix Director
Module 17: Activity Monitoring with Session Recording
Module 18: Citrix Director and NetScaler Console Integration
Module 19: Install, Configure, and Manage Citrix uberAgent
Module 20: Introduction to Troubleshooting
Module 21: Troubleshoot Access Issues
Module 22: Troubleshoot Delivery Controller Issues
Module 23: Troubleshoot Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) Registration Issues
Module 24: Troubleshoot HDX Connections
Course Comments
Product Versions Covered: Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 2507 LTSR, App Layering 2507, and WEM 2511, Citrix DaaS, NetScaler Console 14.1, and uberAgent 7.4.x./7.5.x