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Getting Started with Citrix CloudPortal

By : Puthiyavan Udayakumar
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Getting Started with Citrix CloudPortal

By: Puthiyavan Udayakumar

Overview of this book

<p>Cloud computing is emerging as a hot technology, thereby creating a lot of new jobs, and providing a lot of opportunities for IT service providers to run and manage clouds. Citrix CloudPortal Business Manager enables cloud builders to manage and deliver any cloud or IT service through a single, comprehensive cloud services platform which unifies and simplifies the commercial, user management, service provisioning, and operational aspects of running a cloud.</p> <p>Getting Started with Citrix CloudPortal is a hands-on guide that will help you to learn the installation, configuration, deploying services, managing, and operating of Citrix CloudPortal. It will also help you to take advantage of the real power that is behind CPSM and CPBM and give you a good grounding in operating it in your own enterprises. The book is structured with practical implementations, which are all fully backed up with code and illustrations.</p> <p>Getting Started with Citrix CloudPortal will make you aware of the cloud and its implications, starting with aspects of the cloud such as renting, self-service, and the provisioning of services to cloud tenants and their customers. You will also learn how to deploy services on your own using CPSM and CPBM, detailed steps of VM provisioning, setting up a cloud user profile, setting up a catalog, CPBM product management, workflow management, cloud billing, and cloud pricing management. If you want to take advantage of using the new Citrix CPBM and CPSM, then this is the book for you to upgrade your skills.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Getting Started with Citrix® CloudPortal™
Credits
Notice
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
CCP Connections
Index

Metrics to verify before CPSM deployment


Until now, you have learned about the most obvious requirements to install CPSM; now, in the upcoming session, we will have a look at how to verify essentials for CPSM deployment.

Verification of environment prerequisites

We will look at the core components that should essentially be verified right at the outset before the installation.

The first component that needs to be verified is the Active Directory (AD) schema, which is necessary to accommodate Citrix CloudPortal Services Manager. As you are aware, the operation can be performed using the Microsoft Exchange installation tools.

The following steps need to be performed:

  1. Open the command prompt on your planned Exchange server.

  2. Then execute the following command:

    setup /p /on:OrganizationName
    

The second component that needs to be cross-checked is whether DNS aliases have been configured. Citrix CloudPortal Services Manager uses DNS aliases to discover the servers where the platform modules will be positioned...