Course Overview
This five-day 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. You build on your skills in configuring and managing VMware Horizon 8 through a combination of lecture and hands-on labs. You learn how to configure and deploy pools of virtual machines and how to provide a customized desktop environment to end-users.
You learn how to install and configure a virtual desktop infrastructure platform. You learn how to install and configure VMware Horizon® Connection Server™ and VMware Unified Access Gateway™. You also learn how to configure a load balancer for use with Horizon and how to establish Cloud Pod Architecture.
Additionally, you learn how to use App Volumes to deliver applications and data to desktops and users in seconds and at scale. You gain skills in managing application life cycles from installation to update and replacement. You also learn how to use Dynamic Environment Manager to provide personalization and dynamic policy configuration across virtual, physical, and cloud-based environments to simplify end-user profile management.
Product Alignment
- VMware Horizon 8 v2006
Who should attend
Operators, administrators, and architects for VMware Horizon should enroll in this course. These individuals are responsible for the creation, maintenance, or delivery of remote and virtual desktop services. Additional duties can include the implementation, support, and administration of an organization's end-user computing infrastructure.
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Prerequisites
Customers attending this course should have, at a minimum, the following 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 user activities by implementing Group Policy objects
- Configure Windows systems to enable Remote Desktop Connections
- Build an ODBC connection to an SQL Server database
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- 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 Content
- Course Introduction
- Introduction to VMware Horizon
- Introduction to Use Case
- vSphere for Horizon 8
- VMware Horizon Desktops
- VMware Horizon Agents
- VMware Horizon Pools
- VMware Horizon Client Options
- Creating and Managing Instant-Clone Desktop Pools
- Creating RDS Desktop and Application Pools
- Monitoring VMware Horizon
- Horizon Connection Server
- VMware Horizon Authentication and Certificates
- Workspace ONE Access and Virtual Application Management
- VMware Horizon Performance and Scalability
- Managing VMware Horizon Security
- Overview of Application and Profile Management
- Overview of App Volumes
- App Volumes Installation Overview
- Working with Application Packages
- Working with Writable Volumes
- Working with AppStacks
- Overview of Dynamic Environment Manager
- Install VMware Dynamic Environment Manager
- Management Console User Interface
- Application Configuration Management
- VMware Horizon Smart Policies
This Advanced course is delivered directly by VMware.