Getting started with Citrix® Provisioning services 7.0 / Puthiyavan Udayakumar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Udayakumar, Puthiyavan.

Series:

Professional expertise distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citrix XenApp.

Computer networks--Remote access.

Computer networks.

Client/server computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (134 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Udayakumar Puthiyavan: Puthiyavan Udayakumar has more than 8 years of IT experience and has expertise in areas such as Citrix, VMware, Microsoft products, and Apache CloudStack. He has extensive experience in the field of designing and implementing virtualization solutions using various Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft products. He is an IBM Certified Solution Architect and a Citrix Certified Enterprise Engineer and has more than 16 certifications in infrastructure products. He has authored Getting Started with Citrix CloudPortal, Getting Started with Citrix Provisioning Services 7. 0 and VMware vSphere Network Virtualization Recipe Book. He holds a master's degree in science with a specialization in system software from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He also has a bachelor's degree in engineering from SKR Engineering College, affiliated to Anna University, and has received a national award from the Indian Society for Technical Education. He has presented various research papers that follow the IEEE pattern at more than 15 national and international conferences, including IADIS (held in Dublin, Ireland).

Summary:

This practical guide helps you to administer Citrix Provisioning Services. Each chapter is structured in way to help you easily understand the various features, with accompanying practical examples that help beginners to quickly understand the product. This book is a useful guide for an admin/engineer who is new to the Citrix virtualization solution and provisioning service, and who is looking to get a good grounding in Citrix PVS. It's assumed that you will have some understanding of the basics of virtualization already, but that's all you need to know!

Contents:

Cover; Summary; Copyright; Credits; Notice; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1:Introduction to Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0; The background of Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0; High-level logical flow of Citrix® Provisioning Services; Architecture of Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0; Provisioning Service License server; Provisioning Service Database server; Provisioning Service Admin Console; Shared storage service; Active Directory Server; Network services; Citrix® Provisioning Server; Terminology

Citrix® Provisioning Service farmsCitrix® Provisioning Service stores; Citrix® Provisioning Service sites; Citrix® Provisioning Service vDisk; Citrix® Provisioning Service vDisk modes; Citrix® Provisioning Service vDisk pools; Citrix® Provisioning Service vDisk Update Management; Citrix® Provisioning Service write cache destination; System requirements; Summary; Chapter 2:Installing and Configuring Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0; Installing Citrix® Provisioning Server using GUI; Installing Citrix® Provisioning Services using the command-line interface

Installing Citrix® Provisioning Services Console 7.0 using GUIConfiguring Citrix® Provisioning Server 7.0; Configuring Provisioning Services using the command-line interface; Summary; Chapter 3:Managing Citrix® Provisioning Disk; Organizing a principal target device; Checking the readiness of the master target device's hard disk; The principal target device's BIOS configuration; Server network adapter BIOS configuration; Deploying the master target device application and operating system updates; Allocating a vDisk to the target device; Properties of the principal target device

Dealing with the bootstrap files and boot devicesSummary; Chapter 4:Operating Citrix® Provisioning Services 7.0; Managing and operating a farm; Operating sites; Managing and operating stores; Managing and operating target devices; Operation over target devices; Creating a new target device object in the Provisioning Service database; Setting the target device as the template for this collection; Copying and pasting target device properties; Booting target devices; Checking the target device's status via Console; Sending messages to target devices; Enabling/disabling a target device

Managing and operating the device collectionsDevice management operations; Creating a device collection; Importing a device collection; Deleting a device collection; Booting target devices within a collection; Managing views; Managing and operating the provisioning servers; Operation tasks in the Provisioning Service task; Copying and pasting server properties; Deleting a server; Starting, stopping, or restarting Provisioning Services on a server; Showing the server connections; Load balancing the target devices on a server; Checking for vDisk access updates

Manually configuring Provisioning Servers

Notes:

Professional Expertise Distilled"--Cover.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 03, 2014).

ISBN:

9781782176718

1782176713

OCLC:

869522534