VMware Horizon View: Install, Configure, Manage
- Duration 4 days
- Price $4,195
- Test Level 100
- Certifications N/A
- Exams N/A
Course Overviewremove_circle_outline
This hands-on training course builds your skills in installing, configuring, and managing the Horizon™ View™ component of VMware Horizon™. Students gain practical experience with these concepts through the completion of hands-on labs. View includes: VMware View® Manager™, VMware View® Composer™, and View security server. This course is based on the Horizon 6 release. Before attending this course, you must be able to perform the following tasks:
- Create a template in the VMware vCenter Server™ system and deploy a virtual machine from a template.
- Modify a vCenter Server customization specification.
- Open a virtual machine console in the vCenter Server system and access the guest operating system.
Target Studentadd_circle_outline
System administrators and system integrators responsible for deploying the VMware® virtual desktop infrastructure
Course Objectivesadd_circle_outline
Upon completion of this course you should be able to:
- Identify View components
- Install and configure View Connection Server
- Install and configure virtual machines that become desktops
- Configure and manage VMware Horizon™ Client™ systems
- Configure and manage pools of existing physical machines
- Configure and manage automated pools of full virtual machines
- Configure and manage pools of linked-clone machines
- Configure and manage RDS pools of desktops and applications
- Use View Administrator to configure the View environment
- Configure secure access to View desktops
- Describe steps to deploy View Persona Management for user profile management
- Manage performance and scalability of a View deployment
Course Outlineadd_circle_outline
Module 1: Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Module 2: Introduction to Horizon View
- Overview of Horizon 6
- Introduce View features and components
Module 3: View Connection Server
- Install and configure View Connection Server
- Configure View events database and syslog server
Module 4: View Desktops
- Prepare virtual machines as View desktops
- Compare PCoIP and RDP remote display protocols
- Explain USB redirection and multimedia redirection
- Install Horizon™ View Agent™ in a template
- Deploy a manual pool and entitle users to access it
Module 5: Horizon Client Options
- Introduce Horizon Client for Windows and Mac OS X
- Describe HTML Access, thin clients, and zero clients
- Configure Virtual Printing with Horizon Client
Module 6: Creating and Managing Automated Pools
- Configure and provision automated pools of desktops
- Compare dedicated and floating-assignment pools
- Compare storage options, including VMware® Virtual SAN™
Module 7: Creating and Managing Linked-Clone Desktop Pools
- Overview of View Composer operations
- Deploy and provision linked-clone desktops
- Compare storage options, including Virtual SAN and tiered storage
- Manage linked-clone desktops
- Manage persistent disks
Module 8: Creating and Managing RDS Desktop and Application Pools
- Set up RDS hosts to create a farm
- Deploy and provision RDS desktop pools
- Deploy and provision RDS application pools
- Mange application pools
Module 9: Using View Administrator
- Configure the View environment
- Compare authentication options for desktop access
- Manage users, sessions, and policies
- Implement role-based delegated administration
- Monitor the View environment
Module 10: Managing View Security
- Describe recommended network configurations and authentication options
- Configure the View security server
Module 11: View Persona Management
- Configure user profiles with View Persona Management
- Describe View Persona Management and Windows roaming profiles
- Configure a View Persona Management deployment
- Describe best practices for a View Persona Management deployment
Module 12: Command-Line Tools and Backup Options
- Introduce the vdmadmin utility
- Describe client systems in kiosk mode
- Back up the View databases
- Restore the View databases
Module 13: View Performance and Scalability
- Describe multiserver deployments to create a pod
- Explain performance considerations and load balancing for a single pod
- Explain Cloud Pod Architecture for multiple View pod deployments
Prerequisitesadd_circle_outline
The knowledge and skills that you must have before attending this course are as follows:
- Experience in Microsoft Windows Active Directory administration
- Experience with VMware vSphere®
The knowledge and skills that are recommended before attending this course are as follows:
- VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (Version 5.5) (VICM)
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