VMware Horizon: Install, Configure, Manage

This 4 day instructor-led class satisfies the training requirement to take the test to earn a VMware Certified Professional 6 – Desktop (VCP6-DT) certification.

 

Through hand-on labs and lectures, students will learn to install, configure, and manage the Horizon View component of VMware Horizon 6 consisting of View Manager, View Composer, and View security server.

 

Course 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 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

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

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.

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 6.0) (VICM)

System administrators and system integrators responsible for deploying the VMware® virtual desktop infrastructure.