VMware Horizon 8: Skills for Virtual Desktop Management
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- Formats:
Classroom,
Live Online,
vFlex-ILT,
Onsite
- Length: 3 Days
Overview:
This three-day, hands-on course gives you the skills to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single virtual desktop infrastructure platform. This course builds your skills in configuring and managing VMware Horizon® 8 through a combination of lecture and hands-on labs. You learn how to configure and deploy pools of virtual machines and how to provide a customized desktop environment to end-users.
This course is also available in an On Demand format. For more information, select this link: VMware Horizon 8: Skills for Virtual Desktop Management - On Demand. Product Alignment • VMware Horizon 8 v2103 |
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| Objectives: | By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives: • Recognize the features and benefits of VMware Horizon • Define a use case for your virtual desktop and application infrastructure • Use vSphere to create VMs to be used as desktops for VMware Horizon • Create and optimize Windows VMs to create VMware Horizon desktops • Install and Configure Horizon Agent on a VMware Horizon desktop • Configure, manage, and entitle desktop pools of full VMs • Configure and manage the VMware Horizon Client systems and connect the client to a VMware Horizon desktop • Configure, manage, and entitle pools of instant-clone desktops • Create and use Remote Desktop Services (RDS) desktops and application pools • Monitor the VMware Horizon environment using the VMware Horizon console Dashboard and Horizon Help Desk Tool Certification VMware Horizon 8: Skills for Virtual Desktop Management is the first half of a two-course requirement for the following certification: • VMware Certified Professional - Desktop and Mobility 2021 (VCP-DTM 2021). VMware Horizon 8: Infrastructure Administration satisfies the second requirement. The courses are also available as a single, bundled offering, VMware Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage, which meets the certification requirement on its own. |
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| Intended Audience: | Operators, administrators, and architects for VMware Horizon should enroll in this course. These individuals are responsible for the creation, maintenance, and or delivery of remote and virtual desktop services. | |
| Prerequisites: | Customers attending this course should have, at a minimum, the following VMware infrastructure skills: • Use VMware vSphere® Web Client to view the state of virtual machines, datastores, and networks • Open a virtual machine console on VMware vCenter Server® and access the guest operating system Attendees should also have the following Microsoft Windows system administration experience: • Configure Active Directory services, including DNS, DHCP, and time synchronization • Restrict user activities by implementing Group Policy objects • Configure Windows systems to enable Remote Desktop Connections • Build an ODBC connection to an SQL Server database |
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| Outline: | 1 Course Introduction • Introductions and course logistics • Course objectives 2 Introduction to VMware Horizon • Recognize the features and benefits of Horizon • Describe the conceptual and logical architecture of Horizon 3 Introduction to Use Case • Convert customer requirements to use-case attributes • Define a use case for your virtual desktop and application infrastructure 4 vSphere for VMware Horizon • Explain basic virtualization concepts • Use VMware vSphere® Client™ to access your vCenter Server system and VMware ESXi™ hosts • Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine 5 VMware Horizon Desktops • Create a Windows and a Linux virtual machine using vSphere • Optimize and prepare Windows and Linux virtual machines to set up Horizon desktop VMs 6 VMware Horizon Agent • Outline the configuration choices when installing Horizon Agent on Windows and Linux virtual machines • Create a golden image for Windows and Linux Horizon desktops 7 VMware Horizon Pools • Identify the steps to set up a template for desktop pool deployment • List the steps to add desktops to the VMware Horizon® Connection Server™ inventory • Compare dedicated-assignment and floating-assignment pools • Outline the steps to create an automated pool • Define user entitlement • Explain the hierarchy of global, pool-level, and user-level policies 8 VMware Horizon Client Options • Describe the different clients and their benefits • Access Horizon desktop using various Horizon clients and HTML • Configure integrated printing, USB redirection, and the shared folders option • Configure session collaboration and media optimization for Microsoft Teams 9 Creating and Managing Instant-Clone Desktop Pools • List the advantages of instant clones • Explain the provisioning technology used for instant clone desktop pools • Set up an automated pool of instant clones • Push updated images to instant clone desktop pools 10 Creating RDS Desktop and Application Pools • Explain the difference between an RDS desktop pool and an automated pool • Compare and contrast an RDS session host pool, a farm, and an application pool • Create an RDS desktop pool and an application pool • Access RDS desktops and application from Horizon Client • Use the instant clone technology to automate the build-out of RDSH farms • Configure load-balancing for RDSHs on a farm 11 Monitoring VMware Horizon • Monitor the status of the Horizon components using the Horizon Administrator console dashboard • Monitor desktop sessions using the HelpDesk tool • Monitor the performance of the remote desktop using the Horizon Performance Tracker |
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