CXD-400 Designing App and Desktop Solutions with Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop

Course details

Students will learn to successfully assess and design a XenDesktop 7 app and desktop solution based on the top key projects and architectures that a majority of Citrix customers implement, across different industries and use cases.

Course Outline

1 - Architecture

• Identify the various components included in the XenDesktop 7 architecture
• Determine how the various components communicate and which protocols they are using
• Apply architectural understanding to desktop virtualization solutions
• Troubleshoot desktop virtualization design

2 - Business Drivers

• Identify specific business drivers for multiple verticals
• Facilitate a discussion with the project team at an organization to prioritize business drivers

3 - Data Capture

• Identify best strategy for data collection given a specific organizational environment.
• Identify the types of application data to collect, the method for collecting them, and application data collection tools

4 - User Segmentation

• Identify the different FlexCast models
• Identify considerations in selecting the most appropriate method for segmenting users

5 - Application Assessment

• Understand the process of application assessment
• Demonstrate rationalization of applications in a given case organization
• Assess a suite of applications based on business needs and compatibility to a given XenDesktop delivery model.

6 - Project Management

• Understand the importance of project management for a successful implementation
• Identify roles for a project plan

7 - User Design

• Make key decisions regarding user groups and device (endpoint) design
• Organize user groups for Design document
• Identify and prioritize top user issues
• Design user profile strategy
• Design a printing strategy

8 - Receiver

• Define how applications will be delivered
• Design Citrix Receiver deployment and maintenance

9 - Resource Requirement Recommendations

• Identify recourse requirements
• Make key design decisions regarding resource recommendations

10 - Access

• Design an authentication point (Storefront and NetScaler Gateway) strategy
• Determine session and access policies, including user authentication and remote access
• Design virtual desktop operating systems access
• Calculate bandwidth for the desktop virtualization solution

11 - Desktop

• Make key design decisions regarding machine catalogs and groups
• Design a personalization strategy including user profiles, user policies and personal vDisk usage.
• Design an appropriate printing strategy

12 - Application Delivery

• Design a solution that meets application inventory and integration requirements
• Identify characteristics of the applications that will impact placement as well as the application delivery architecture for the XenDesktop environment
• Design an application delivery strategy

13 - Desktop Delivery

• Design a Desktop delivery topology, including Sites, XenDesktop Controllers per site, and load balancing
• Design the underlying infrastructure, including database selection, license servers and Active Directory Integration
• Identify the XenDesktop user and virtual desktop baseline policies

14 - Networking Layer

• Make key high availability design decisions
• Integrate the XenDesktop infrastructure with the network infrastructure
• Understand WAN optimization, Multistream ICA, and DHCP functionality

15 - Storage and Provisioning Layer

• Make key design decisions regarding storage solutions
• Identify the features and differences between PVS and MCS
• Design a provisioning strategy with either PVS or MCS

16 - Platform Layer

• Make key design decisions regarding the hypervisor to be used in desktop virtualization solutions
• Make accurate hardware calculations, including VDI hardware, shared hardware, application hardware, and control hardware

17 - Operational

• Understand potential migration approaches
• Design a system monitoring strategy
• Make key design decisions regarding decisions regarding application delivery
• Migration approach
• Backup and System Monitoring
• Backup
• System Monitoring

18 - Verification

• Verify assess and design decisions using Citrix online tools
• Develop a complete stakeholder presentation
• Effectively present and support design decisions

Target Audience: This course is recommended for desktop virtualization solution designers such as Architects, Consultants, and Engineers.

Related Certifications:

• Citrix Certified Expert - Apps and Desktops

Related Exams:

• Designing Citrix XenDesktop 7 Solutions Exam