VMware Horizon View: Install, Configure, Manage [V6]

This course has been superseded

We suggest the following instead:
VMware vSphere Install, Configure, Manage V7

Course Description

This hands-on training course builds your skills in installing, configuring, and managing the Horizon View component of VMware Horizon. Students gain practical experience with these concepts through the completion of hands-on labs. View includes: VMware View Manager, VMware View Composer, and View security server. This course is based on the Horizon 6 release.
4 Days
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Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course are able to complete the following tasks:
- Create a template in the VMware vCenter Server system and deploy a virtual machine from a template.
- Modify a vCenter Server customization specification.
- Open a virtual machine console in the vCenter Server system and access the guest operating system

Objectives

This course is designed to teach you how to:
- Identify View components
- Install and configure View Connection Server
- Install and configure virtual machines that become desktops
- Configure and manage VMware Horizon Client systems
- Configure and manage pools of existing physical machines
- Configure and manage automated pools of full virtual machines
- Configure and manage pools of linked-clone machines
- Configure and manage RDS pools of desktops and applications
- Use View Administrator to configure the View environment
- Configure secure access to View desktops
- Describe steps to deploy View Persona Management for user profile management
- Manage performance and scalability of a View deployment

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for:
- System administrators and system integrators responsible for deploying the VMware virtual desktop infrastructure

Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

Introduction to VMware Horizon View

Overview of Horizon 6
Introduce View features and components

View Connection Server

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

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

VMware View 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

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

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

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
Manage application pools

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

Managing View Security

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

View Persona Management

Configure user profiles with View Persona Management
Describe View Persona Management and Windows roaming profiles
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