VMware ® Horizon (with View): Install, Configure, Manage v6.0

Course details

This course builds your skills in installing, configuring, and managing the Horizon™ View™ component of VMware Horizon™.

Course Outline

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

• ? Preparing 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

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

Related Certifications:

• VMware Certified Professional – Desktop (VCP-DT)

Related Exams:

• VCP5-DT