Citrix CC-VAD-CC case studies

Citrix CC-VAD-CC · Put your knowledge to work in context.

The Citrix Certified Associate – Virtualization (CC-VAD-CC) is an entry-to-intermediate credential for IT professionals who design, build, and operate Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environments. It suits administrators, engineers, and consultants who work daily with Delivery Controllers, StoreFront, machine catalogs, and the Virtual Delivery Agent, and who want a structured way to prove that knowledge. The Citrix CC-VAD-CC case studies are 5 cases and about 5,446 words.

Two data centers, 130 ms apart: one Site with zones or two Sites?

Northwind Logistics is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops deployment. It has 4,200 internal users split roughly 60/40 between Amsterdam and Dallas.

1,046 words, about 5 min 2

Certificate swap breaks StoreFront pass-through, aggregation and external HTML5

Contoso Health runs two independent Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Sites, each fronted by its own three-server StoreFront cluster. Internal users reach https://citrix.contoso.com, which DNS resolves to the nearest cluster; external users arrive through a NetScaler Gateway pair.

1,058 words, about 5 min 3

Write cache exhaustion at 700 concurrent logons, and 300 new desktops in Azure

Fabrikam runs 900 non-persistent Windows 11 desktops on vSphere 8, provisioned by Citrix Provisioning from a single 80 GB vDisk with 32 KB block size, streamed from two PVS servers on 1 GbE with 10 GbE uplinks. Target devices use cache in device RAM with overflow to hard disk: an 8 GB RAM cap and a 10 GB overflow file on the same volume as the page file, which has been redirected to the cache disk.

1,102 words, about 6 min 4

Slow logons on Profile Management, 38 Citrix policies, and a new FSLogix requirement

Globex supports 2,500 users on Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops with Citrix Profile Management. Profiles live on a NetApp CIFS share 5 ms from the VDAs, and 22 folders are redirected to the same share by GPO.

1,097 words, about 5 min 5

SAML loop after a conditional access change, and an expiring FAS certificate

Tailspin publishes five Windows apps to 3,500 external users through a Citrix Gateway pair running nFactor, federating to Entra ID with SAML and Entra MFA. Single sign-on into the VDA session is provided by Federated Authentication Service; the FAS server certificate has 18 days left on it.

1,143 words, about 6 min