VMware Horizon 7: Install, Configure, Manage [V7.7]

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 will 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.

Obsah školení

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® Client™ 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
• Manage the performance and scalability of a VMware Horizon deployment

Certifications
This course prepares you for the following certification:

• VMware Certified Professional 7 – Desktop and Mobility (VCP7-DTM)

 

 

Outline:  

1. Course Introduction
   
   • Review course goals
   • Review course objectives
   • Review the course outline
   • Find additional resources after this course
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 VMware vSphere® requirements for a connection server
   • Describe the network and firewall configurations for View Connection Server
   • License VMware Horizon components
   • Configure View Connection Server
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
   • List the ports that must be opened in the machine’s firewall for VMware Horizon operations
   • 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 View users
   • Explain the hierarchy of global policies, pool-level policies, and user-level policies
   • List the View Group Policy administrative template files
6. Horizon Client Options
   
   • Describe the requirements for a Horizon Client installation
   • Explain USB redirection and options
   • Describe the power states for desktops
   • Define and compare a thin client with a system running Horizon Client
   • Discuss the benefits of Virtual Printing
   • Explain the Virtual Printing architecture
   • Describe the configuration options for Virtual Printing
   • Explain the location-based printing feature
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
   • Examine the entitlement of desktops in automated pools
8. Creating and Managing Linked-Clone Desktop Pools
   
   • Describe the VMware linked-clone technology
   • Explain why both a parent virtual machine and a snapshot must be used to create linked clones
   • Outline the system requirements for View Composer
   • Describe the relationship between a persistent disk and the system disk
   • 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 linked-clone management operations
   • Describe the management operations for persistent disks
9. Creating and Managing Instant-Clone Desktop Pools
   
   • Identify the advantages of instant clones
   • Distinguish View Composer clones from instant clones
   • Identify the requirements of instant clones
   • Describe the types of instant-clone virtual machines
   • Explain how folders are used to delegate pool administration
   • Outline the steps to set up an automated pool that uses instant clones
   • Describe instant-clone limitations in VMware Horizon
   • Describe the creation of instant clones
   • Set up an automated pool of instant clones
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
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
    • Explain a direct connection
    • List the advantages of direct connections
    • Discuss the benefits of using Unified Access Gateway
    • Compare how Unified Access Gateway and the security server are deployed
    • List the two-factor authentication options that are supported by Unified Access Gateway
    • Describe the situations in which you might deploy Unified Access Gateway with one, two, or three network interfaces
12. Profile Management Using User Environment Manager
    
    • Identify the User Environment Manager functional areas and their benefits
    • List User Environment Manager components
    • Describe User Environment Manager and its architecture
    • Identify User Environment Manager profile management and its features
    • 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
    • Describe how a user can access a single application by using the RDS application pool
    • Describe the relationship between an RDS host, a farm, and an application pool
    • Create an RDS desktop pool and an application pool
    • Explain how the View Composer linked-clone technology can automate the build-out of RDS server farms
    • Use View Composer linked-clone technology and instant-clone technology to automate the build-out of RDSH farms
    • Describe the default and alternative load-balancing feature for RDS hosts that optimizes placement of sessions
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. 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
    • Explain the potential problems if the databases are not synchronized
16. 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
    • Describe the purpose of interpod communication and the View InterPod API
    • Explain how global entitlements can benefit a single-pod environment