Overview
This hands-on training course builds your skills in the VMware® Horizon View™ suite of products: VMware® View Manager™, VMware® View Composer™, and VMware® ThinApp®. This course is based on the Horizon View 5.2 and ThinApp 4.7 releases.
Pre-Requisites
Before attending this course, you must be able to perform the following tasks:
- Create a template in VMware vCenter Server™ and deploy a virtual machine from the template
- Modify a template customization file
- Open a virtual machine console in vCenter Server and access the guest operating system
- Configure Active Directory services.
- Experience in Microsoft Windows Active Directory administration (Required)
- Experience with VMware vSphere® (Required)
- Completion of VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (Recommended)
Content
- 1. Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- 2. Introduction to VMware View
- View features and components
- 3. View Connection Server
- Installation and configuration
- 4. View Desktops
- View Agent
- PCoIP and Remote Desktop Protocol remote display protocols
- USB redirection and multimedia redirection
- 5. View Client Options
- View Client
- View Client with Local Mode
- Thin clients and zero clients
- Virtual Printing with View Clients
- 6. View Administrator
- Configuring the View environment
- Managing users, sessions, and policies
- Configuring and provisioning automated pools of desktops
- Role-based delegated administration
- Monitoring the View environment
- 7. Configuring and Managing Linked Clones
- View Composer operations
- Deploying and provisioning linked-clone desktops
- Managing linked-clone desktops
- Managing persistent disks
- 8. Local-Mode Desktops
- Configuring local-mode desktops
- View Transfer Server and the Transfer Server repository
- Local-mode operations
- 9. Managing View Security
- Network configuration and authentication options
- Configuring the View security server
- 10. View Persona Management
- Configuring user profiles with View Persona Management
- View Persona Management and Windows roaming profiles
- Configuring a View Persona Management deployment
- Best practices for a View Persona Management deployment
- 11. VMware Hoizon Application Manager
- Ensure that VMware® Horizon Application Manager™ is working
- Introduce Application Manager components
- Describe single sign-on from Horizon View to View desktops
- Enable browser access to View desktops through Horizon View
- Entitle applications by using Horizon View
- 12.Command-Line Tools and Backup Options
- Ensure that VMware® Horizon Application Manager™ is working
- Introduce Application Manager components
- Describe single sign-on from Horizon View to View desktops
- Enable browser access to View desktops through Horizon View
- Entitle applications by using Horizon View
- 13. View Connection server Performance and Scalability
- Describe replica connection servers
- Explain performance considerations and load balancing
- 14. VMware ThinApp
- Using ThinApp to capture applications
- Deploying and updating ThinApp packages
- Virtualizing Internet Explorer 6 for use on a Windows 7 system
- Managing ThinApp applications in View
Objectives
- Install and configure View components.
- Create and manage dedicated and floating desktop pools.
- Deploy and manage linked-clone virtual desktops.
- Configure and manage desktops that run in local mode.
- Configure user profiles with View Persona Management.
- Configure secure access to desktops through a public network.
- Use ThinApp to package applications
- Entitle applications by using Horizon view
Target Audience
System administrators and system integrators responsible for deploying the VMware® virtual desktop infrastructure.
