Getting Started with Citrix CloudPortal

✍ Scribed by Udayakumar, Puthiyavan

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 128
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Want to make it easier to deliver cloud services while integrating with existing systems? Citrix CloudPortal is the answer and this book is the perfect intro, giving you a complete tutorial to all the essential features.

Overview

• Overview of CPSM and CPBM architectures, and planning CPSM and CPBM
• Become efficient in product management, workflow management, and billing and pricing management
• Provision services efficiently to cloud consumers and clients

In Detail

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.

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.

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.

What you will learn from this book

• Get an overview of Citrix CloudPortal
• Install CPSM using the GUI and command line interface, and on centOS
• Configure CPSM and CPBM
• Deploy services using CPSM (VM, Hosted Exchange Provisioning)
• Manage CPSM topographies
• Operate CPBM topographies
• Provision a CPSM service to cloud consumers
• Add and modify users and profiles

Approach

The book will follow a step-by-step, tutorial-based approach and show readers how to take advantage of Citrix CloudPortal’s capabilities.

Who this book is written for

This book is ideal for administrators and engineers new to the Citrix Cloud Solution CPSM, CPBM, and who are looking to get a good grounding in Citrix’s new product. It’s assumed that you will have some experience in the basics of cloud computing already. No prior knowledge of CloudPortal is expected.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Copyright
Credits
Notice
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Citrix CloudPortal
Cloud computing and its business model
Cloud computing
Cloud business model
Overview of Citrix CloudPortal
Features of Citrix CloudPortal
Citrix CloudPortal architecture
How CPBM works
How CPSM works
About CPSM licensing
Terminology and concepts of CPSM
Planning our CPSM deployment and platform
Summary
Chapter 2: Installing CloudPortal Service Manager 11.0
Metrics to verify before CPSM deployment. Verification of environment prerequisitesHow to deploy SQL Server and Reporting Services
Installation of the CPSM role using GUI
Configuration of parameters of CPSM roles using GUI
Role 1 --
selecting role Directory Web Service and configuring Directory Web Service
Role 2 --
selecting role Provisioning Service and configuring queue monitoring services, directory monitoring services, the Mail server
Role 3 --
selecting role Reporter Mailer and configuring Licensing Reporting and Mail server for report mailers. Role 4 --
selecting role reporting, configuring the Reporting DB, Mail server, and previewing the service package import, reporting database, Data Transfer notifications, Reporting Services Details, and Data warehouse serviceRole 5: selecting a web role and configuring service package import and the web server
Configurating the location of the CPSM role using GUI
Installing CPSM roles using command line
Cortex
Core installation using CLI
Configuring the CPSM role using command line
Configuring database objects
Configuring the Provisioning and Directory Web Service server roles. Configuring the primary locationConfiguring the remote location
Configuring the reporting options for deploying reports
Configuring the reporting [Data warehouse] object
Configuring the report mailer object
Summary
Chapter 3: Deploying CloudPortal Services Manager 11.0
An overview of CPSM service deployment
Scenario 1 --
Citrix Service deployment
Citrix Service deployment overview on CPSM 11.0
Step 1 --
deploying Citrix web services on a server in the Citrix farm
Step 2 --
Service Configuration using the Control Panel. Step 3 --
importing App Hub from the Citrix farm to the server collectionStep 4 --
provisioning the service to consumers and to resellers
Scenario 2 --
hosted Exchange Service deployment
Step 1 --
installing Exchange-hosted web services
Step 2 --
configuring hosted web services
Step 3 --
provisioning the hosted Exchange service to consumers
Scenario 3 --
Virtual Machine Service deployment
Step 1 --
deploying VM web service on a server
Step 2 --
Service Configuration using the VM service
Step 3 --
provisioning VM services to clients
Exporting and importing service packages
Summary. Chapter 4: Managing CloudPortal Services Manager 11.0.

✦ Subjects

Client/server computing.;Cloud computing.;COMPUTERS;Client-Server Computing.