Description
About This Course
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 6release.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
Prerequisites
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Experience in Microsoft Windows Active Directory administration
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Experience with VMware vSphere®
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
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Identify View components
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Install and configure View Connection Server
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Install and configure virtual machines that become desktops
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Configure and manage VMware Horizon™ Client™ systems
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Configure and manage pools of existing physical machines
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Configure and manage automated pools of full virtual machines
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Configure and manage pools of linked-clone machines
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Configure and manage RDS pools of desktops and applications
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Use View Administrator to configure the View environment
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Configure secure access to View desktops
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Describe steps to deploy View Persona Management for user profile management
- Manage performance and scalability of a View deployment
Who Should Attend
- System administrators and system integrators responsible for deploying the VMware® virtual desktop infrastructure
Course Outline
Lesson 1: Course Introduction
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Introductions and course logistics
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Course objectives
Lesson 2: Introduction to Horizon and View
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Overview of Horizon 6
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Introduce View features and components
Lesson 3: View Connection Server
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Install and configure View Connection Server
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Configure View events database and syslog server
Lesson 4: View Desktops
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Prepare virtual machines as View desktops
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Compare PCoIP and RDP remote display protocols
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Explain USB redirection and multimedia redirection
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Install Horizon™ View Agent™ in a template
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Deploy a manual pool and entitle users to access it
Lesson 5: Horizon Client Options
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Introduce Horizon Client for Windows and Mac OS X
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Describe HTML Access, thin clients, and zero clients
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Configure Virtual Printing with Horizon Client
Lesson 6: Creating and Managing Automated Pools
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Configure and provision automated pools of desktops
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Compare dedicated and floating-assignment pools
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Compare storage options, including VMware® Virtual SAN™
Lesson 7: Creating and Managing Linked-Clone Desktop Pools
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Overview of View Composer operations
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Deploy and provision linked-clone desktops
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Compare storage options, including Virtual SAN and tiered storage
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Manage linked-clone desktops
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Manage persistent disks
Lesson 8: Creating and Managing RDS Desktop and Application Pools
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Set up RDS hosts to create a farm
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Deploy and provision RDS desktop pools
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Deploy and provision RDS application pools
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Mange application pools
Lesson 9: Using View Administrator
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Configure the View environment
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Compare authentication options for desktop access
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Manage users, sessions, and policies
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Implement role-based delegated administration
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Monitor the View environment
Lesson 10: Managing View Security
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Describe recommended network configurations and authentication options
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Configure the View security server
Lesson 11: View Persona Management
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Configure user profiles with View Persona Management
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Describe View Persona Management and Windows roaming profiles
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Configure a View Persona Management deployment
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Describe best practices for a View Persona Management deployment
Lesson 12: Command-Line Tools and Backup Options
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Introduce the vdmadmin utility
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Describe client systems in kiosk mode
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Back up the View databases
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Restore the View databases
Lesson 13: View Performance and Scalability
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Describe multiserver deployments to create a pod
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Explain performance considerations and load balancing for a single pod
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Explain Cloud Pod Architecture for multiple View pod deployments
