Duration
5 days
Overview
This five-day, hands-on course gives you the skills to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single virtual desktop infrastructure platform. This course builds your skills in installing, configuring, and managing VMware Horizon® 7 through a combination of lecture and hands-on labs. You learn how to configure and deploy pools of virtual machines, how to manage the access and security of the machines, and how to provide a customized desktop environment to end users.
Product Alignment
VMware Horizon 7.7
User Environment Manager 9.5
App Volumes Manager 2.15
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Identify VMware Horizon components
- Install and configure View Connection Server
- Install and configure virtual desktops
- Configure and manage VMware Horizon® ClientTM systems
- Configure and manage pools of physical and virtual machines
- Configure and manage automated pools of full virtual machines
- Configure and manage pools of linked-clone desktops
- Configure and manage automated pools of instant clones
- Configure and manage Remote Desktop Services (RDS) pools of desktops and applications
- Use Horizon Administrator to configure the VMware Horizon environment
- Configure secure access to virtual desktops
- Use VMware User Environment Manager™ to manage user personalization and application configurations
- Describe steps to deploy profile management
- Use VMware App Volumes™ to provision and manage applications
- Identify the benefits of JMP architecture
- Manage the performance and scalability of a VMware Horizon deployment
Target Audience
Technical personnel who work in the IT departments of end-customer companies and people who are responsible for the delivery of remote or virtual desktop services
Prerequisites
Customers attending this course should have, at a minimum, the following VMware infrastructure skills:
- 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
Attendees should also have the following Microsoft Windows system administration experience:
- Configure Active Directory services, including DNS, DHCP, and time synchronization
- Restrict users’ activities by implementing Group Policy objects
- Configure Windows systems to enable Remote Desktop Connections
- Build an ODBC connection to an SQL Server database
Course Modules
1 Course Introduction
2 Introduction to VMware Horizon
Recognize the features and benefits of VMware Horizon
Identify the major function of each VMware Horizon component
Define a use case for your virtual desktop and application infrastructure
3 View Connection Server
Identify the system and virtualization requirements for a View Connection server
License VMware Horizon components
Configure View Connection Server
Use the dashboard to quickly focus on the details of a problem
Identify the benefits of using the VMware Horizon Help Desk tool
4 VMware Horizon Desktops
Outline the process and choices in setting up VMware Horizon virtual machines
Compare the remote display protocols that are available in VMware Horizon
Outline the configuration choices when installing Horizon Agent
5 VMware Horizon Desktop Pools
Identify the steps to set up a template for desktop pool deployment
List the steps to add desktops to the View Connection Server inventory
Define desktop entitlement
Describe how information on the Users and Groups page can be used to control and monitor Horizon users
Explain the hierarchy of global policies, pool-level policies, and user-level policies
List the Horizon Group Policy administrative template files
6 Horizon Client Options
Enlist the requirements for a Horizon Client installation
Install Horizon Client and connect to a virtual desktop
Explain USB redirection and options
Define and compare a thin client with a system running Horizon Client
Configure Virtual Printing for location-based printing
7 Creating Automated Pools of Full Virtual Machines
Recognize how an automated pool operates
Compare dedicated-assignment and floating-assignment pools
Outline the steps to create an automated pool
8 Creating and Managing Linked-Clone Desktop Pools
Describe the VMware linked-clone technology
Enlist the system requirements for View Composer
Outline the steps to install View Composer
Outline the steps necessary to set up a desktop pool that uses linked clones
Compare the purpose of the parent and the replica virtual machines
Compare the recompose, refresh, and rebalance management operations for linked clones
Describe the management operations for persistent disks
9 Creating and Managing Instant-Clone Desktop Pools
Identify the advantages of instant clones
Differentiate between View Composer linked clones and instant clones
Identify the types of instant-clone virtual machines
Enlist the requirements of instant clones
Outline the steps to set up an automated pool that uses instant clones
Set up an automated pool of instant clones
Update the image of an instant clone desktop pool using the push-image operation
10 VMware Horizon Authentication
Compare the authentication options that View Connection Server supports
Explain the purpose of roles and privileges in VMware Horizon
Outline the steps to create a Horizon administrator and a custom role
List some of the best practices for configuring Horizon administrators
Configure Horizon Server to use a new TLS Certificate
11 Managing VMware Horizon Security
Compare tunnels and direct connections for client access to desktops
Compare the benefits of using VMware Unified Access Gateway™ in the DMZ
List the advantages of direct connections
Discuss the benefits of using Unified Access Gateway
List the two-factor authentication options that are supported by Unified Access Gateway
Configure a Unified Access Gateway appliance
12 Profile Management Using User Environment Manager
Identify the User Environment Manager functional areas and their benefits
Outline the steps that are required to install and configure User Environment Manager components
Manage user personalization using the User Environment Manager management console
Install User Environment Manager
Describe User Environment Manager smart policies
13 Creating RDS Desktop and Application Pools
Explain the difference between an RDS desktop pool and an automated pool
Access a single application by using the RDS application pool
Compare and contrast an RDSH pool, a farm, and an application pool
Create an RDS desktop pool and an application pool
Identify the load-balancing options for Remote Desktop Session Hosts
14 Using App Volumes to Provision and Manage Applications
Explain how App Volumes works
Identify the features and benefits of App Volumes
Identify the interface elements of App Volumes
Install and configure App Volumes
15 JMP and Horizon 7 Overview
Identify the benefits of JMP
Enlist the JMP and Horizon 7 components
Identify JMP deployment considerations
Install and configure JMP Server
16 Command-Line Tools and Backup Options
Describe key View Connection Server features that are available as command-line options with the
vdmadmin command
Explain the purpose of kiosk mode for client systems and how it is configured
Identify the log locations for each VMware Horizon component
Describe the backup options for VMware Horizon databases
17 VMware Horizon Performance and Scalability
Describe the purpose of a replica server
List several best practices for multiserver deployment in a pod
Describe the benefits of the Cloud Pod Architecture feature for large-scale VMware Horizon deployments
Establish a session with a desktop machine in a different pod by logging in to a local View Connection
Server instance
Create global entitlements for accessing Horizon Desktops
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.