For anyone planning to take the 1Y0-A26 Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration exam, here are some links to resources for sections four, five, and six of the exam. For the first three sections, yesterday I posted Part One.
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Section 4: Configuring and Managing Resource Pools
4.1
Objective: Given a scenario, determine which actions an administrator must take to add or remove a host to or from a resource pool using the CLI or GUI.
Source: Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administrator’s Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#hetpool
Source: CPU Stepping and a XenServer Pool FAQ
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX123491
Source: Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administrator’s Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#id887306
Source: Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administrator’s Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#hosts_and_pools
4.2
Objective: Given a scenario, determine how to complete pool master maintenance with HA enabled.
Source: XenCenter Help
http://citrixxperience.com/2012/06/05/xenserver-maintenance-mode-and-workload-balancing/
Source: XenCenter Help
http://citrixxperience.com/2012/06/06/ha-best-practices-xenserver-host-maintenance
4.3
Objective: Given a scenario, either with HA enabled or with HA disabled, determine the steps needed to change the pool master.
Source: Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administrator’s Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#id996455
4.4
Objective: Based on a description of an environment, determine the steps to create a storage repository for that environment.
Source: Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administrator’s Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#ck_reference_storage_repository_types
Source: How to Change the Software Open iSCSI IQN in XenServer
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131761
4.5
Objective: Given a description of an environment, determine how to configure storage repository for Intellicache.
Source: Citrix XenServer 6.0 Installation Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/installation.html#id996020
4.6
Objective: Given a scenario, determine how to configure DMP and MPP multipathing.
Source: Citrix XenServer Design: Configuring iSCSI Multipathing Support for XenServer, Pages 15 and 16
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX129309
4.7
Objective: Based on the needs of an environment, determine how to create a network and assign a VLAN to that network.
Source: Citrix XenServer Design: Designing XenServer Network Configurations, Pages 30 – 32
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX129320
Source: Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administrator’s Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#networking-standalone_host_config-vlans
4.8
Objective: Based on the needs of an environment, determine how to create a network and assign a VLAN to that network.
Source: Citrix XenServer Design: Designing XenServer Network Configurations, Pages 30 – 32
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX129320
4.9
Objective: Based on a scenario, determine how to create a bond and configure the management interface in the bond.
Source: Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administrator’s Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#networking-config_for_pools-creating_bonds
4.10
Objective: Based on the needs of an environment, determine when to segregate XenServer host management traffic from other management traffic, such as storage management, using separate physical switches or using separate VLANs.
Source: Citrix XenServer Design: Designing XenServer Network Configurations, Pages 30 – 32
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX129320
4.11
Objective: Given a scenario, determine when to utilize the rolling upgrade wizard.
Source: XenServer 6.0 Release Notes
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX130418
Section 5: Installing and Configuring Provisioning Services
5.1
Objective: Determine which PXE service options to select when installing Provisioning services.
Source: Technologies > Provisioning Services > Provisioning Services 6.0 > Installation > Planning
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/provisioning-60/pvs-install-task1-plan-6-0.html
Source: Technologies > Provisioning Services > Provisioning Services 6.1 > Installing and Configuring Provisioning Services > Managing Bootstrap Files and Boot Devices > Using the Manage Boot Devices Utility
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/provisioning-61/pvs-boot-devices-utility.html
5.2
Objective: Determine how to configure TFTP and bootstrap options for a given environment.
Source: Technologies >Provisioning Services > Provisioning Services 6.0 Administration > Managing Farms
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/provisioning-60/pvs-farm-configure-new.html
Source: How to Add DHCP PXE Options to Microsoft DHCP Server
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX115094
Source: Technologies > Provisioning Services > Provisioning Services 6.0 > Installation
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/provisioning-60/pvs-install-task1-plan-6-0.html
Source: Technologies > Provisioning Services > Provisioning Services 6.0
> Administration > Managing Target Devices > Getting the Bootstrap File
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/provisioning-60/pvs-bootstrap-bios-embedded.html
5.3
Objective: Determine how to configure the generic Stream server boot list for a given environment.
Source: Technologies > Provisioning Services > Provisioning Services 6.0 > Installation > Managing Bootstrap Files and Boot Devices
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/provisioning-60/pvs-bootstrap-from-console.html
Source: Technologies > Provisioning Services > Provisioning Services 5.6 SP1 > Administration > Managing Network Components
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/provisioning-56/pvs-network-router-boot.html
5.4
Objective: Determine how to create a bootstrap disk when configuring VM boot options.
Source: Technologies > Provisioning Services > Provisioning Services 6.0 > Administration > Managing Target Devices
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/provisioning-60/pvs-technology-overview-boot-file-get.html
5.5
Objective: Determine how to configure DHCP options 66 and 67 when configuring VM boot options.
Source: Technologies > Provisioning Services > Provisioning Services 6.1 > Installing and Configuring Provisioning Services
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/provisioning-61/pvs-farm-configure-new.html
5.6
Objective: Determine how to configure PXE when configuring VM boot options.
Source: Technologies > Provisioning Services > Provisioning Services 6.1 > Installing and Configuring Provisioning Services
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/provisioning-61/pvs-farm-configure-new.html
Section 6: Maintaining Provisioning Services
6.1
Objective: Determine how to create or delete a machine account in Active Directory on the Provisioning services server in a XenServer environment.
Source: Technologies > Provisioning Services > Provisioning Services 6.0 > Installation > Administration > Managing vDisks > Deploying vDisks > Configuring vDisks for Deployment > Configuring vDisks for Active Directory Management
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/provisioning-60/pvs-ad-passwords-manage.html
6.2
Objective: Determine how to change the properties of the target device vDisk based on stated requirements.
Source: Technologies > Provisioning Services > Provisioning Services 6.0 > Administration > Managing Device Collections > Device Collection Management Tasks
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/provisioning-60/pvs-collections-kms-licensing.html#pvs-collections-kms-licensing
Source: Technologies > Provisioning Services > Provisioning Services 6.0 > Administration >Managing vDisks > Deploying vDisks > Configuring vDisks for Deployment > Common vDisk Maintenance Task
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/provisioning-60/pvs-vdisks-properties-merrimack.html#pvs-vdisks-properties-merrimack
6.3
Objective: Determine which vDisk properties to change and which cache mode to use for a vDisk based on given requirements.
Source: Technologies > Provisioning Services > Provisioning Services 6.0 > Provisioning Services Product Overview
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/provisioning-60/pvs-technology-overview-write-cache-intro.html
6.4
Objective: Determine how to update a vDisk based on a description of an environment and the needs of that environment.
Source: Provisioning Services 6.0 Administrator’s Guide, Page 265
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX132134
6.5
Objective: Determine when the vDisk image mode needs to be changed in a described environment.
Source: Technologies > Provisioning Services > Provisioning Services 6.0 > Administration > Managing vDisks
http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/provisioning-60/pvs-vdisks-update-wrapper.html
6.6
Objective: Determine when to create additional site(s), store(s) or device collection(s) based on a given scenario.
Source: Provisioning Services 6.0 Administrator’s Guide
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX132134
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Very nice article man, I was creating a document exactly like that, when suddenly I found this.
Thank you very much, its helping me a lot
You’re welcome and thank you. Glad it’s helped you.
Jeff