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- Formats:
Classroom,
Live Online,
vFlex-ILT,
Onsite
- Length: 4 Days
Overview:
This hands-on training course gives you the skills to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) platform. It builds your skills in installing, configuring, and managing the View component of VMware Horizon® 6, release 6.2, through a combination of lecture and hands-on labs. This course teaches you how to configure and deploy pools of virtual machines, how to manage access and security of the machines, and how to provide end users a customized desktop environment.
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| Objectives: |
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By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
• 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 Remote Desktop Services (RDS) desktop and application pools
• Use View Administrator to configure the View environment
• Configure secure access to View virtual machines
• Describe steps to deploy View Persona Management for user profile management
• Manage performance and scalability of a View deployment |
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| Intended Audience: |
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System administrators and system integrators responsible for deploying the VMware virtual desktop infrastructure |
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| Prerequisites: |
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• Experience in Microsoft Windows Active Directory administration
• Experience with VMware vSphere®
• Create a template in the VMware vCenter Server™ system and deploy a virtual machine |
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| Outline: |
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- Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Introduction to Horizon 6 and View
- Overview of Horizon 6
- Introduce View features and components
- Explain how View can be operated in FIPS mode
- View Connection Server
- Install and configure View Connection Server
- Configure View events database and the Syslog server
- View Desktops
- Prepare Windows virtual machines as View desktops
- Compare PCoIP and RDP remote display protocols
- Explain USB redirection and multimedia redirection
- Install View Agent in a virtual machine template
- Deploy a manual pool and entitle users to access it
- Compare Windows and Linux VDI virtual machines
- Horizon Client Options
- Describe Horizon Client for Windows and Mac OS X
- Describe Horizon Client for mobile devices with biometric authentication
- Describe HTML Access, thin clients, and zero clients
- Compare options for client drive redirection
- 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™
- Creating and Managing Linked-Clone Desktop Pools
- Overview of View Composer operations
- Deploy and provision linked-clone desktops
- Compare storage options, including Virtual SAN
- Manage linked-clone desktops
- Manage persistent disks
- Creating and Managing RDS Desktop and Application Pools
- Set up RDS hosts to create a farm of hosts
- Deploy and provision RDS desktop pools
- Deploy and provision RDS application pools
- Manage application pools
- Explain how linked clones provide automated management of RDS server farms
- Using View Administrator
- Configure the View environment
- Compare authentication options for desktop access
- Compare 3D rendering options such as vDGA and GRID vGPU
- Manage administrators, users, sessions, and policies
- Monitor the View environment
- Managing View Security
- Describe recommended network configurations and authentication options
- Configure the View security server
- Describe Access Point, a Linux-based alternative for the DMZ
- 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
- 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
- View Performance and Scalability
- Describe multiserver deployments to create a View pod
- Explain performance considerations and load balancing for a pod
- Explain Cloud Pod Architecture for multiple View pods
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