Course Overview

This hands-on course, equivalent to five-days of training, 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 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.

Course Objectives

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® ClientTM 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
• Identify the benefits of JMP architecture
• Manage the performance and scalability of a VMware Horizon deployment

Target Audience

• Technical personnel who work in the IT departments of end-customer companies and people who are responsible for the delivery of remote or virtual desktop services  
  

Course Modules

1 Course Introduction

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 system and virtualization requirements for a View Connection server
• License VMware Horizon components
• Configure View Connection Server
• Use the dashboard to quickly focus on the details of a problem
• Identify the benefits of using the VMware Horizon Help Desk tool

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
• 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 Horizon users
• Explain the hierarchy of global policies, pool-level policies, and user-level policies
• List the Horizon Group Policy administrative template files

6 Horizon Client Options
• Enlist the requirements for a Horizon Client installation
• Install Horizon Client and connect to a virtual desktop
• Explain USB redirection and options
• Define and compare a thin client with a system running Horizon Client
• Configure Virtual Printing for location-based printing

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

8 Creating and Managing Linked-Clone Desktop Pools
• Describe the VMware linked-clone technology
• Enlist the system requirements for View Composer
• Outline the steps to install View Composer
• 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 recompose, refresh, and rebalance management operations for linked clones
• Describe the management operations for persistent disks

9 Creating and Managing Instant-Clone Desktop Pools
• Identify the advantages of instant clones
• Differentiate between View Composer linked clones and instant clones
• Identify the types of instant-clone virtual machines
• Enlist the requirements of instant clones
• Outline the steps to set up an automated pool that uses instant clones
• Set up an automated pool of instant clones
• Update the image of an instant clone desktop pool using the push-image operation

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
• Configure Horizon Server to use a new TLS Certificate

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
• List the advantages of direct connections
• Discuss the benefits of using Unified Access Gateway
• List the two-factor authentication options that are supported by Unified Access Gateway
• Configure a Unified Access Gateway appliance

12 Profile Management Using User Environment Manager
• Identify the User Environment Manager functional areas and their benefits
• Outline the steps that are required to install and configure User Environment Manager components
• Manage user personalization using the User Environment Manager management console
• Install User Environment Manager
• 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
• Access a single application by using the RDS application pool
• Compare and contrast an RDSH pool, a farm, and an application pool
• Create an RDS desktop pool and an application pool
• Identify the load-balancing options for Remote Desktop Session Hosts

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 JMP and Horizon 7 Overview
• Identify the benefits of JMP
• Enlist the JMP and Horizon 7 components
• Identify JMP deployment considerations
• Install and configure JMP Server

16 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

17 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
• Establish a session with a desktop machine in a different pod by logging in to a local View Connection Server instance
• Create global entitlements for accessing Horizon Desktops