VMware vSAN with Horizon - On Demand

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Identify vSAN and VMware Horizon 7 integration considerations
• Recognize the benefits of using vSAN as the native storage for VMware Horizon 7
• Describe basic vSAN architecture and components
• Describe basic VMware Horizon 7 architecture and components
• Identify the vSAN features that benefit VMware Horizon 7
• Describe key vSAN characteristics
• Identify ways to overcome vSAN limitations in a VMware Horizon 7 environment
• Define hardware, software, and storage requirements for a given use case
• Identify desktop pool use cases and how these cases affect vSAN datastore sizing
• Configure a desktop pool for a given use case
• Determine and configure the correct vSAN storage policies for VMware Horizon 7

• Storage and virtual infrastructure administrators who want to use software-defined storage with vSAN

1 Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• Describe the software-defined data center

2 Integrating vSAN with VMware Horizon 7
• Identify vSAN and VMware Horizon 7 integration considerations
• Describe basic vSAN architecture
• Describe basic VMware Horizon 7 architecture
• Identify key vSAN characteristics that affect VMware Horizon 7 design and sizing
• Describe basic vSAN architecture and components
• Identify ways that vSAN benefits VMware Horizon 7
• Recognize vSAN features that are key to increasing storage performance in VMware Horizon 7
• Identify ways to overcome vSAN limitations with VMware Horizon 7

3 Configuring vSAN for Horizon 7
• Define hardware, software, and storage requirements for a specific use case.
• Configure a desktop pool for a specific use case.
• Recognize vSAN sizing considerations for VMware Horizon 7
• Determine the appropriate vSAN sizing and cluster type for a VMware Horizon 7 environment or pool
• Apply vSAN design considerations
• Describe the expansion of a vSAN cluster
• Configure vSAN disk groups

4 Configuring VMware Horizon 7 to use vSAN
• Identify Horizon Connection Server requirements
• Configure Horizon Connection Server storage settings
• Describe how to configure the event database
• Describe the function of View Composer
• Describe replica tiering
• Identify vSAN datastore requirements for linked-clone desktop pools
• Deploy linked-clone desktops from a vSAN datastore
• Optimize storage for instant-clone desktops
• Describe replica and instant-clone virtual machine storage options

5 vSAN Policies for VMware Horizon Desktops
• Explain how storage policies work with VMware Horizon 7
• Explain virtual machine storage policies
• Identify virtual machine storage policy compliance status