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VMware Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage plus App Volumes Fast Track Training

This accelerated, hands-on training course is a blend of VMware Horizon® 8: Skills for Virtual Desktop Management, VMware Horizon 8: Infrastructure Administration, and VMware App Volumes™, and VMware Dynamic Environment Manager™. Eight days of content are taught in five-days of extending learning. This training collection gives you the hands-on skills to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single virtual desktop infrastructure platform.

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Course Details

Duration

5 days

Prerequisites

  • Use VMware vSphere® Web Client to view the state of virtual machines, datastores, and networks
  • Open a virtual machine console on VMware vCenter Server® and access the guest operating system
  • Create snapshots of virtual machines
  • Configure guest customization specifications
  • Modify virtual machine properties
  • Convert a virtual machine into a template
  • Deploy a virtual machine from a template
  • Configure Active Directory services, including DNS, DHCP, and time synchronization
  • Restrict user activities by implementing Group Policy objects
  • Configure Windows systems to enable Remote Desktop Connections
  • Build an ODBC connection to an SQL Server database

Target Audience

  • Operators, administrators, and architects for VMware Horizon.
  • Individuals responsible for the creation, maintenance, or delivery of remote and virtual desktop services.

Skills Gained

  • Recognize the features and benefits of VMware Horizon
  • Use VMware vSphere® to create VMs to be used as desktops for VMware Horizon
  • Create and optimize Windows VMs to create VMware Horizon desktops
  • Install and configure Horizon Agent on Horizon desktop
  • Configure and manage the VMware Horizon® Client™ systems and connect the client to a VMware Horizon desktop
  • Configure, manage, and entitle desktop pools of full VMs
  • Configure, manage, and entitle pools of instant-clone desktops
  • Create and use Remote Desktop Services (RDS) desktops and application pools
  • Monitor the VMware Horizon environment using Horizon Console Dashboard and Horizon Help Desk Tool
  • Identify Horizon Connection Server installation, architecture, and requirements.
  • Describe the authentication and certification options for a VMware Horizon environment
  • Recognize the integration process and benefits of VMware Workspace ONE® Access™ and Horizon 8
  • Discuss performance and scalability options available in Horizon 8
  • Describe different security options for the Horizon environment
  • Describe the features and functions of App Volumes and Dynamic Environment Manager
  • Demonstrate the architectures of App Volumes and Dynamic Environment Manager
  • Install and configure App Volumes
  • Create and deploy Application Packages and writable volumes
  • Install and configure Dynamic Environment Manager
  • Manage application configurations, user environment settings, and personalization settings
Course Outline
  • Introduction to VMware Horizon
    • Recognize the features and benefits of Horizon
    • Describe the conceptual and logical architecture of VMware Horizon
  • Introduction to Use Case
    • Define a use case for your virtual desktop and application infrastructure
    • Convert customer requirements to use-case attributes
  • vSphere for Horizon 8
    • Explain basic virtualization concepts
    • Use vSphere Client to access your vCenter Server system and VMware ESXi™ hosts
    • Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine
  • VMware Horizon Desktops
    • Create a Windows and a Linux virtual machine using vSphere
    • Optimize and prepare Windows and Linux virtual machines to set up VMware Horizon desktop VMs
  • VMware Horizon Agents
    • Outline the configuration choices when installing Horizon Agent on Windows and Linux virtual machines
    • Create a gold master for Windows Horizon desktops
  • VMware Horizon Pools
    • Identify the steps to set up a template for desktop pool deployment
    • List the steps to add desktops to the Horizon Connection Server inventory
    • Compare dedicated-assignment and floating-assignment pools
    • Outline the steps to create an automated pool
    • Define user entitlement
    • Explain the hierarchy of global, pool-level, and user-level policies
  • VMware Horizon Client Options
    • Describe the different clients and their benefits
    • Access the VMware Horizon desktop using various VMware Horizon clients and HTML
    • Configure integrated printing, USB redirection, and the shared folders option
    • Configure session collaboration and media optimization for Microsoft Teams
  • Creating and Managing Instant-Clone Desktop Pools
    • List the advantages of instant clones
    • Explain the provisioning technology used for instant-clone desktop pools
    • Set up an automated pool of instant clones
    • Push updated images to instant-clone desktop pools
  • Creating RDS Desktop and Application Pools
    • Explain the difference between an RDS desktop pool and an automated pool
    • Compare and contrast an RDS session host pool, a farm, and an application pool
    • Create an RDS desktop pool and an application pool
    • Access RDS desktops and application from Horizon Client
    • Use the instant clone technology to automate the build-out of RDSH farms
    • Configure load-balancing for RDSHs on a farm
  • Monitoring VMware Horizon
    • Monitor the status of the VMware Horizon components using the Horizon Administrator console dashboard
    • Monitor desktop sessions using the HelpDesk tool
  • Horizon Connection Server
    • Recognize VMware Horizon reference architecture
    • Identify the Horizon Connection Server supported features
    • Identify the recommended system requirements for Horizon Connection Server
    • Configure the Horizon event database
    • Outline the steps for the initial configuration of Horizon Connection Server
    • Discuss the ADAM database as a critical component of the Horizon Connection Server installation
  • VMware Horizon Authentication and Certificates
    • Compare the authentication options that Horizon Connection Server supports
    • Describe the Smartcard authentication options that Horizon Connection Server supports
    • Outline the steps to create a VMware Horizon administrator and custom roles
    • Describe the roles available in a VMware Horizon environment
    • Explain the role that certificates play for Horizon Connection Server
    • Install and configure certificates for Horizon Connection Server
    • Install and configure True SSO in a VMware Horizon environment
  • Workspace ONE Access and Virtual Application Management
    • Recognize the features and benefits of Workspace ONE Access
    • Recognize the Workspace ONE Access console features
    • Explain identity management in Workspace ONE Access
    • Explain access management in Workspace ONE Access
    • Describe the Workspace ONE Access directory integration
    • Describe the Workspace ONE Access directory integration
    • Deploy virtual applications with Workspace services
  • VMware Horizon Performance and Scalability
    • Describe the purpose of a replica connection server
    • Explain how multiple Horizon Connection Server instances in a pod maintain synchronization
    • Describe the 3D rendering options available in VMware Horizon 8
    • List the steps to configure graphics cards for use in a VMware Horizon environment
    • Configure a load balancer for use in a VMware Horizon environment
    • Explain Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture LDAP replication and VIPA
    • Explain Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture scalability options
  • Managing VMware Horizon Security
    • Explain concepts relevant to secure VMware Horizon connections
    • Describe how to restrict VMware Horizon connections.
    • Discuss the benefits of using Unified Access Gateway
    • List the two-factor authentication options that are supported by Unified Access Gateway
    • List Unified Access Gateway firewall rules
    • Describe the situation in which you might deploy Unified Access Gateway instances with one, two, or three network interfaces
  • Overview of Application and Profile Management
    • Profile Management
    • Application Management
  • Overview of App Volumes
    • App Volumes components
  • App Volumes Installation Overview
    • Requirements
    • Installing and configuring App Volumes Manager
    • Installing the App Volumes agent
  • Working with Application Packages
    • Packaging Applications
    • Maintaining Applications
  • Working with Writable Volumes
    • Default writable volume templates
    • Writable volume policies at creation
    • Updating and rescanning writable volumes
  • Working with AppStacks
    • Enabling AppStacks
    • Creating and provisioning AppStacks
    • Assigning and updating AppStacks
    • Overriding precedence in AppStacks
  • Overview of Dynamic Environment Manager
    • Features and benefits
    • VMware Dynamic Environment Manager terminology
    • User environment settings and scope
    • User profile scenarios
  • Install VMware Dynamic Environment Manager
    • Infrastructure and system requirements
    • VMware Dynamic Environment Manager Agent (FlexEngine) requirements
    • Group Policy configuration
    • Management Console configuration
  • Management Console User Interface
    • Personalize User Profile
    • User environment configuration
  • Application Configuration Management
    • Predefined and user-customized application settings
    • Using Application Profiler
    • Using the Self-Support Tool
    • Using the Helpdesk Support Tool
  • VMware Horizon Smart Policies
    • Scope of VMware Horizon Smart Policies
    • Configure VMware Horizon Smart Policies settings
    • Define Smart Policies conditions
  • Product Alignment
    • VMware Horizon 8 v2006
  • Certifications
    • VMware Certified Professional – Desktop and Mobility 2020 (VCP-DTM 2020).