Horizon (with View): Install, Configure, Manage [V6.0]

Horizon (with View): Install, Configure, Manage [V6.0]

Summary & Schedule

Horizon (With View): Install, Configure, Manage [V6.0] Course Information

Course Length: 4 Days

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. Before attending this course, you must be able to perform 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.

Course Objectives

  • 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

Pre-requisites

  • Experience in Microsoft Windows Active Directory administration
  • Experience with VMware vSphere®

Intended Audience

System administrators and system integrators responsible for deploying the VMware® virtual desktop infrastructure

Outline

Sample Horizon (with View): Install, Configure, Manage [V6.0] Course Outline

1. Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

2. Introduction to Horizon and View

  • Overview of Horizon 6
  • Introduce View features and components

3. View Connection Server

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

4. 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

5. Horizon 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

6. 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™

7. 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

8 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
  • Mange application pools

9. 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

10. Managing View Security

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

11. View Persona Management

  • Configure user profiles with View Persona Management
  • Describe View Persona Management and Windows roaming profiles
  • Configure a View Persona Management deployment
  • Describe best practices for a View Persona Management deployment

12. Command-Line Tools and Backup Options

  • Introduce the vdmadmin utility
  • Describe client systems in kiosk mode
  • Back up the View databases
  • Restore the View databases

13. View Performance and Scalability 

  • Describe multiserver deployments to create a pod
  • Explain performance considerations and load balancing for a single pod 
  • Explain Cloud Pod Architecture for multiple View pod deployments