Horizon View: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.0]

COURSE OUTLINE:

Description In this hands-on course, you will build your skills in the VMware® Horizon Viewâ„¢ suite of products: VMware View Managerâ„¢, VMware View Composerâ„¢, and VMware ThinApp®. This course is based on the Horizon View 5.2 and ThinApp 4.7 releases and includes 18 skills-building labs Audience System administrators and system integrators responsible for deploying the VMware® virtual desktop infrastructure Prerequisites

Ablility to perform the following tasks:
- Create a template in VMware vCenter Serverâ„¢ and deploy a virtual machine from the template
- Modify a template customization file
- Open a virtual machine console in vCenter Server and access the guest operating system
- Configure Active Directory services
Learning Objectives
- Identify View components
Install and configure View Connection Server
Install and configure virtual machines that become desktops
Configure and manage VMware Horizonâ„¢ Clientâ„¢ 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

Outline

Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
Introduction to Horizon and View
- Overview of Horizon 6
- Introduce View features and components
View Connection Server
- Install and configure View Connection Server
- Configure View events database and syslog server
View Desktops
- Prepare virtual machines as View desktops
- Compare PCoIP and RDP remote display protocols
- Explain USB redirection and multimedia redirection
- Install Horizonâ„¢ View Agentâ„¢ in a template
- Deploy a manual pool and entitle users to access it
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
Creating and Managing Automated Pools
- Configure and provision automated pools of desktops
- Compare dedicated and floating-assignment pools
- Compare storage options, including VMware® Virtual SANâ„¢
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
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
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
Managing View Security
- Describe recommended network configurations and authentication options
- Configure the View security server
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 pod
- Explain performance considerations and load balancing for a single pod
- Explain Cloud Pod Architecture for multiple View pod deployments

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