VMware Horizon View: Install, Configure, Manage v6

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.
The course is confirmed and is held in Lausanne.

Register:

03/02-05/2015


Pre-requisites
  • 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.

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 deploymen

Duration: 4 days

Price: CHF 4100.-- (plus 8% VAT)
(Lunch not included)

Location: Lausanne

Register:

03/02-05/2015


Course Content
1. Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2. Introduction to Horizon and View
Overview of Horizon 6
Introduce View features and components

3. View Connection Server
Install and configure View Connection Server
Configure View events database and syslog server

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

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

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™

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

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

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

10. Managing View Security
Describe recommended network configurations and authentication options
Configure the View security server

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

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

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

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