VMware ® View: Desktop Fast Track v5.1

Course details

This fast-paced, course includes the content of the following courses:

• VMware View: Install, Configure, Manage
• VMware View: Design Best Practices

Students will learn skills in the VMware®

View™ suite: View Manager™, View Composer™, and ThinApp®.

Course Outline

1 - Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 - Introduction to VMware View

• View features and components

3 - View Connection Server

• Installation and configuration

4 - View Desktops

• View Agent
• PCoIP and Remote Desktop Protocol remote display protocols
• USB redirection and multimedia redirection

5 - View Client Options

• View Client
• View Client with Local Mode
• Thin clients and zero clients
• Virtual Printing with View Clients

6 - View Administrator

• Configuring the View environment
• Managing users, sessions, and policies
• Configuring and provisioning automated pools of desktops
• Role-based delegated administration
• Monitoring the View environment

7 - Configuring and Managing Linked Clones

• View Composer operations
• Deploying and provisioning linked-clone desktops
• Managing linked-clone desktops
• Managing persistent disks

8 - Local Mode Desktops

• Configuring local-mode desktops
• View Transfer Server and the Transfer Server repository
• Local-mode operations

9 - Managing View Security

• Network configuration and authentication options
• Configuring the View security server

10 - View Persona Management

• Configuring user profiles with View Persona Management
• View Persona Management and Windows roaming profiles
• Configuring a View Persona Management deployment
• Best practices for a View persona Management deployment

11 - Command-Line Tools and Backup Options

• The vdmadmin utility
• Client systems in kiosk mode
• Backing up the View databases
• Restoring the View databases

12 - View Connection Server Performance and Scalability

• Replica connection servers
• Performance considerations and load balancing

13 - VMware ThinApp

• Using ThinApp to capture applications
• Deploying and updating ThinApp packages
• Virtualizing Internet Explorer 6 for use on a Windows 7 system
• Managing ThinApp applications in View

Related Certifications:

• VMware Certified Professional 5 – Desktop (VCP5-DT)

Related Exams:

• VCP5-DT