Citrix XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR: Provisioning Services
Understand, install, and manage XenDesktop's other provisioning technology, Provisioning Services.
What you'll learn
This course offers a quick sidebar into XenDeskop's other provisioning solution. Provisioning Services arrives as an optional, additional technology for creating new Windows instances that can coexist with Machine Creation Services implemented in the immediately previous course.
While both approaches are useful for rapidly deploying Windows instances, Provisioning Services does so via a unique approach in streaming down an operating system from a network-based virtual disk store. These Provisioning Services vDisks become the starting point for each new machine. With them, along with PVS's streaming infrastructure, you need only power on a machine to create a new OS instance.
In this fourth course out of seven, Citrix XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR: Provisioning Services, you'll begin by exploring the unique architecture of Provisioning Services. First, you'll learn about its streaming technology. Next, you'll install and configure a highly-available PVS infrastructure and its required prerequisites. Finally, you'll dig into the different approaches for managing target device write caching and then build a series of vDisks for deployment. By the end of this course, you'll be armed with the knowledge you need to determine which of XenDesktop's two solutions you prefer for provisioning your virtual machines.
Table of contents
- Introduction 4m
- Explore Standard Mode vDisks 5m
- Explore Target Device Configurations 3m
- Manually Create Virtual Machine and Target Device 2m
- Prepare Local Storage for Write Cache 5m
- Complete Target Device Configuration 4m
- Configure Auto-add 3m
- Create Target Devices with the Streamed VM Wizard 4m
- Create a Machine Catalog with the XenDesktop Setup Wizard 7m
- What This Module Covered 2m
- Introduction 4m
- Delegate Administrator Privileges 3m
- Configure Audit Trail 3m
- Configure Offline Database Support 2m
- Explore Provisioning Services HA Configuration 2m
- Install Second Provisioning Services Server 5m
- Configure TFTP for HA 5m
- Explore UEFI PXE Bootstrap 2m
- Explore HA for Provisioning Services vDisks 4m
- Enable vDisk Load Balancing 4m
- Validate vDisk Replication and Rebalance Target Device Load 2m
- Validate Target Device Failover 1m
- What This Module Covered 2m