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 and to implement Workspace Environment Management to improve logon times, centralize user settings management, and optimize the performance of machines.
You will leave this course with a good understanding of managing more complex solutions and features in your Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop 7 site.
Prerequisites
- Strong foundational knowledge of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7. Citrix recommends professionals prepare for this course by taking the following course:
- CWS-215-Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Administration On-Premises and in Citrix Cloud
Learning Objectives
- How to configure Workspace Environment Management to improve the end user environment and virtual resource consumption.
- How to migrate to Workspace Environment Management
- App Layering skills to create and administer OS, platform, application, elastic, and user layers
Content Outline
- App Layering Introduction
- Architecture and How it Works
Creating an OS Layer
Creating a Platform Layer
Creating App Layers
- Elastic App Layering
- User Layers
- Using Templates in App Layering
- Using Layered Images in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Site
Layer Priority
- Updating Layers
- Maintaining and Updating the App Layering Environment
- Common App Layering Considerations and Additional Resources
- Workspace Environment Management (WEM) Introduction
- WEM Administration
- Managing User Resources with WEM
- Managing Profiles with WEM
- Managing Endpoints with the WEM Transformer Feature
- Optimizing Machine Performance with WEM
- Optimizing User Experience with WEM
WEM Security Features
- Migrating to WEM
- Upgrading a WEM Deployment
- WEM Multi-Location Considerations
FAQs
A: For XenApp and XenDesktop installations, WEM is an Enterprise / Platinum entitlement that uses intelligent resource and profile management technologies to enable the fastest desktop logon and application response times.
A: The back-end SQL database, the WEM Broker server(s), and the WEM agent, which is installed on the XenApp and XenDesktop workloads and communicates with the WEM Broker server, make up WEM's architecture (s). Citrix advises employing NetScaler as the load balancer in a clustered situation.
A: Citrix App Layering is a Windows Operating System and application management solution for on-premise private and public clouds. Citrix App Layering’s under- lying technology, called layering, enables all components of a virtual machine to be independently assigned, patched, and updated.
A: To install Citrix app layering, you have to follow the following steps:-
- At the Welcome screen, Click Next.
- Select I accept the terms in the license agreement, and Click Next.
- Leave Agent Port as default 8016, and Click Next.
- At Ready to Install the program, Click Install.
A: To attend the training session, you should have operational Desktops or Laptops with the required specifications and a good internet connection to access the labs.
A: We recommend you attend the live session to practice & clarify the doubts instantly and get more value from your investment. However, if, due to some contingency, you have to skip the class, Radiant Techlearning will help you with the recorded session of that particular day. However, those recorded sessions are not meant only for personal consumption and NOT for distribution or any commercial use.
A: Radiant Techlearning has a data center containing a Virtual Training environment for participants’ hand-on-practice. Participants can easily access these labs over Cloud with the help of a remote desktop connection. Radiant virtual labs allow you to learn from anywhere and in any time zone.
A: The learners will be enthralled as we engage them in the natural world and Oriented industry projects during the training program. These projects will improve your skills and knowledge and give you a better experience. These real-time projects will help you a lot in your future tasks and assignments.