Who should attend
The primary audience for this course is Account Managers who require an understanding of desktop virtualization so that they can articulate the benefits and value of implementing a desktop virtualization environment on a FlexPod converged infrastructure to their customers.
Prerequisites
Prior to attending, you should have a basic understanding of data center technologies and solutions.
Course Objectives
In this one-day course, you will learn to:
- Identify potential customers for a desktop virtualization solution
- Explain the value of the FlexPod desktop virtualization solution
- Describe the FlexPod Converged Infrastructure Family
- Describe the benefits of Cisco UCS and a Unified Fabric with a simplified virtualized infrastructure
- Understand why Cisco UCS is the ideal platform for Desktop Virtualization
- Describe the B-Series and C-Series servers within the Cisco UCS family
- Understand how Intel Xeon Processor families provide performance and availability
- Describe NetApp FAS family of storage controllers as an integral part of FlexPod
- Understand how Clustered Data ONTAP provides storage scalability and availability
- Explain the value of VMware View Horizon built on FlexPod
- Explain the value of Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp built on FlexPod
- Explain how Cisco can help to solve common VDI performance problems
- Understand how Cisco UCS can deliver improved performance for VDI power users
- Examine use cases for desktop virtualization and identify the key benefits of the solution