Course Overview
Designed for experienced IT professionals, you will learn to build and combine App Layers to optimize the management of your app and desktop images for use with Citrix Machine Creation Services (MCS) and Citrix Provisioning. You will leave this course with a good understanding of managing additional solutions and features in your Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop or Citrix DaaS site.
Prerequisites
Strong foundational knowledge of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 or Citrix DaaS Recommended:
- CWS-215: Desktops 7 Deployment and Administration and Citirix Virtual Apps
OR
- CWS-250: Citrix DaaS Deployment and Administration
Learning Objectives
- Create, administer, and manage App Layering OS, platform, application, elastic, and user layers.
- Integrate Citrix App Layering into Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops or Citrix DaaS deployment that uses Machine Creation Services (MCS) or Citrix Provisioning.
Content Outline
- App Layering Introduction
- Citrix App Layering Benefits
- Layer Introductions
- Architecture and Technical Overview
- The Enterprise Layer Manager (ELM) Server
- The Process to Create a VM Using the App Layering
- The Layered Image Boot Process Flow
- The Citrix App Layering Management Console
- App Layering Connectors
- Create an OS Layer
- How Many OS Layers?
- OS Layer Considerations
- OS Layer Benefits
- Create a Platform Layer
- How Many Platform Layers?
- Platform Layer Considerations
- Platform Layer Types
- Create an App Layer
- How Many App Layers?
- App Layer Considerations
- App Layer Benefits
- How to Update Citrix Virtual Apps and
- Desktops Catalog Using Citrix App Layering?
- Elastic App Layering
- Elastic App Layer Use Case
- How Many Elastic Layers?
- Elastic Layer Considerations
- What are User Layers?
- User Layer Requirements
- User Layer Considerations
- User Layer Locations
- User Layer Storage Location
- Considerations
- Create a Template
- Template Considerations
- Layers Review
- Scenario Walk Through Example to Use
- App Layering to Plan out Images
- Prepare the Layered Image for MCS
- Use App Layering with MCS
- Layer Priority
- Layer Priority Function
- How to Update Layers
- Layer Update Considerations
- Coordinate and Manage the ELM Server
- ELM Server Backup Considerations
- ELM Multi-Location
- Backups for Layers
- ELM Server Update Considerations
- Layering Anti-Virus
- Layering Microsoft Office
- App Layering Recipes, Documentation and Labs
- Installing and Configuring the ELM Server
- Preparing a Windows Server OS Image
- Creating an OS Layer
- Creating a Platform Layer
- Installing Citrix VDA and Joining Domain
- Creating an App Layer
- Creating an Elastic App Layer
- Configuring a User Layer Repository
- Creating an Image Template
- Creating a Machine Catalog
- Creating a Delivery Group
- Launching the Published Resources
- Exploring Layer Priority and Maintaining
- An App Layering Environment
FAQs
For on-premises private and public clouds, Citrix App Layering is a Windows operating system and application management solution.. Citrix App Layering's under- lying technology, called layering, enables all virtual machine components to be independently assigned, patched, and updated.
The user personalization and customizable layer feature needs the following elements:
- Citrix Virtual Apps along with Desktops 7 1909 or later.
- Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) of version 1912 or later.
- Citrix Provisioning, version 1909 or later.
- Azure Files with on-prem AD authentication enabled or Windows File Share (SMB)
Application layering allows IT to install, update and manage applications independent of the base images for users' virtual desktops. This will enable organizations to deploy fewer, or even just one, golden images rather than deploying separate base images for each department or user group.
The division of network protocols and services into layers helps simplify networking protocols by breaking them into smaller, more manageable units and moreover offers increased flexibility. By dividing protocols into layers, protocols can be designed for interoperability.
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