- XenServer Architecture
- Managing Virtual Machines
- Installing XenServer
- Managing a XenServer Environment
- Resource Pools
- Networking
- Storage
- High Availability
- Sizing and Optimizations
- Troubleshooting
1.XenServer Architecture
- Describing the XenServer virtualization platform
- Product editions and entitlements
- XenServer architecture
- XenServer key components
2.Managing Virtual Machines
- Virtualization techniques
- XenTools
- Creating virtual machines
- Managing virtual machines
- Understanding vApps
- Managing snapshots
3.Installing XenServer
- Hardware requirements
- Licensing
- Available installation methods
- XenServer supplemental packs
4. Managing a XenServer Environment
- Deploying hotfixes
- Upgrading XenServer
- Upgrading XenTools
- Monitoring and alerting
- Pool metadata backups
5.Resource Pools
- Understanding resource pools
- XenServer pool master
- Pool masterelection
- Workload balancing
6. Networking
- XenServer networking architecture
- Virtual network types
- Network interface bonds
- XenServer physical connectivity
7 Storage
- XenServer storage architecture
- Understanding thick and thin provisioning
- Storage locations
- File based and block based storage
- Storage multipathing
- XenServer Intellicache
- XenServer in-memory read caching
8 High Availability
- Purpose of high availability
- High availability recommendations
- Detecting a host failure
- High availability recovery process
- 9 Security
- Integrating with Active Directory
- Understanding role-based access
- Minimizing the attack surface
- Certificates and SSL with XenServer
9. Sizing and Optimizations
- Dom0 sizing
- Dom0 in-memory reach caching
- Virtual CPU optimization
- Device pass-through
- Dynamic memory control
- Resource scheduling
- Network QoS
- Disk prioritization
10. Troubleshooting
- XenServer maintenance mode
- Host logs and event notifications
- Xsconsole
- XenTop
- Command line and PowerShell commands
- Using Citrix Insight Services
- Network tracing