VMware ® Mirage: Install, Configure, Manage v5.0

Course details

This course provides students with skills that they need to deploy a unified image management system. Students will learn how to configure security, manage images, perform a Windows migration, set up endpoint protection, & perform management functions.

Course Outline

1 - Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 - Introduction to Horizon Mirage

• Explain how Horizon Mirage works
• Describe how Horizon Mirage fits into the VMware end-user
• computing vision
• Define the main Horizon Mirage use cases
• Explain the main features and benefits of Horizon Mirage

3 - Horizon Mirage Components and Architecture

• Identify the function of each of the Horizon Mirage solution
• components
• Define the Horizon Mirage layers
• Diagram the Horizon Mirage architecture

4 - Installing and Configuring Horizon Mirage

• Recognize the operating system, software requirements, and
• hardware requirements for a successful deployment of Horizon
• Mirage
• Examine the tasks for installing and configuring Horizon Mirage
• Identify the process for deploying Horizon Mirage to endpoints

5 - Horizon Mirage Management Console

• Recognize how to use the Mirage Management Console features to manage and monitor your Horizon Mirage system

6 - Base Layers and Application Layers

• Recognize the best practices for creating and assigning Base
• Layers and Application Layers
• Discuss how to create and assign Base Layers and Application
• Layers
• Describe how to create a reference machine

7 - Migrating a Desktop from Windows XP to Windows 7

• Recognize the steps needed to prepare your migration
• environment for a Windows XP to Windows 7 migration
• Identify the steps for performing a Windows XP to Windows 7
• migration
• Explain how you can monitor the Windows XP to Windows 7
• migration process
• Discuss the ways you can troubleshoot a migration to
• Windows 7

8 - Using Horizon Mirage for Desktop Recovery and Maintenance

• Explain the process for restoring desktop data to the current endpoint by using a CVD snapshot
• Discuss how you can use the Disaster Recovery wizard to restore a desktop image to a replacement endpoint and to a
• new disk drive on the same endpoint

9 - Performing Hardware Migrations

• Recognize the criteria for planning and performing a mass hardware migration
• Describe the process for using the Hardware Migration wizard

10 - Common End-User Tasks and the Horizon Mirage File Portal

• Describe how an end user performs a file-level restore and directory-level restore
• Explain the process for configuring the File Portal
• Describe how to access files using the File Portal

Target Audience:

• Describe the key concepts of Mirage
• Recognize how Mirage fits into the VMware end-user computing vision
• Identify the main Mirage use classifications
• Define the function of each of the Mirage solution components
• Install, configure, and upgrade Mirage
• Identify the tasks for SSL configuration on a Mirage system
• Discuss the management functions available in the Mirage Management console
• Deploy Mirage to endpoints
• Explain the tasks for capturing and assigning base layers and application layers
• Describe methods for performing disaster recovery with Mirage
• Outline how to plan and perform a mass hardware migration with Mirage
• Recognize how the file portal is set up and used