VMware ® Mirage v5.0 and Horizon with View v6.0: Fast Track

Course details

This course provides students with skills that they need to deploy a unified image management system using VMware Mirage™ as well as installing, configuring, and managing the VMware Horizon™ View™ component of VMware Horizon™.

Course Outline

1 - Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 - Introduction to Mirage

• Discuss the key concepts of Mirage
• Describe how Mirage works with Horizon 6
• Define the main Mirage use cases
• Discuss Mirage features and benefits

3 - Components and Architecture

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

4 - Installing and Configuring Mirage

• Outline the tasks for installing and configuring
• Mirage
• Discuss the process for deploying the Mirage client
• Identify the high-level tasks for upgrading Mirage

5 - Mirage Security

• Recognize the architecture and components of the Mirage Gateway server and how they interact
• Identify tasks for performing SSL configuration on a Mirage system
• Explain how to configure Mirage load balancing

6 - Mirage Management Overview

• Explain how to use the Mirage dashboard and
• transaction logs to monitor your Mirage system
• environment
• Recognize the process for setting up static and
• dynamic centralized virtual desktop (CVD)collections
• Explain the main Image Composer functions
• Describe how Mirage roles are set up and used

7 - Mirage Web Manager

• Identify the main installation and configuration tasks for Mirage Web Manager
• Discuss how to use Mirage Web Manager logs
• Recognize how to configure SSL on Mirage Web Manager

8 - Mirage Single Image Management

• Diagram the layer management lifecycle
• Explain how to set up a reference machine
• Recognize the process for capturing and assigning base layers and application layers

9 - Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 Migration

• Identify steps for performing a Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 migration and how to monitor the migration process
• Discuss the backup capabilities of Mirage
• Explain the Mirage endpoint disaster recovery options

10 - Endpoint Protection with Mirage

• Discuss the backup capabilities of Mirage and how upload policies are used to define backup parameters
• Explain the Mirage endpoint disaster recovery options

11 - Working with the Mirage File Portal

• Explain the process for configuring the file portal
• Recognize how to configure end-user CVD mapping
• Describe how to access files using the file portal

12 - Introduction to Horizon and View

• Overview of Horizon 6
• Introduce View features and components

13 - View Connection Server

• Install and configure View Connection Server
• Configure the View events database and syslog server

14 - 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

15 - 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

16 - 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™

17 - 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

18 - Creating and Managing RDS Desktop and Application

• Set up RDS hosts to create a farm
• Deploy and provision RDS desktop pools
• Deploy and provision RDS application pools
• Manage application pools

19 - 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

20 - Managing View Security

• Describe recommended network configurations and
• authentication options
• Configure the View security server

21 - 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

22 - 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

23 - 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: Experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for deploying Mirage and Horizon with View.