Course Objective

This hands-on training course gives you the skills to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) platform. It builds your skills in installing, configuring, and managing the View component of VMware Horizon™ 6, release 6.2, through a combination of lecture and hands-on labs.

 

This course teaches you how to configure and deploy pools of virtual machines, how to manage access and security of the machines, and how to provide end users a customized desktop environment. This course will help prepare students for the VCP6 Desktop and Mobility (VCP6-DTM) Certification Exam.

 

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 Remote Desktop Services (RDS) desktop and application pools

• ?Use View Administrator to configure the View environment

• ?Configure secure access to View virtual machines

• ?Describe steps to deploy View Persona Management for user profile management

• ?Manage performance and scalability of a View deployment

 

Who Should Attend This Course

System administrators and system integrators responsible for deploying the VMware® virtual desktop infrastructure, or those students preparing for the VCP6 Desktop and Mobility Certification Exam.

 

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students should have experience with Microsoft Active Directory administration and VMware vSphere.  Students should be able to create a template in the VMware vCenter Server system and deploy a virtual machine.

 

Course Outline

1. Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics

• Course objectives

2. Introduction to Horizon 6  and View

• Overview of Horizon 6

• Introduce View features and components

• Explain how View can be operated in FIPS mode

3. View Connection Server

• Install and configure View Connection Server

• Configure View events database and the Syslog server

4. View Desktops

• Prepare Windows virtual machines as View desktops

• Compare PCoIP and RDP remote display protocols

• Explain USB redirection and multimedia redirection

• Install View Agent in a virtual machine template

• Deploy a manual pool and entitle users to access it

• Compare Windows and Linux VDI virtual machines

5. Horizon Client Options

• Describe Horizon Client for Windows and Mac OS X

• Describe Horizon Client  for mobile devices with biometric authentication

• Describe HTML Access, thin clients, and zero clients

• Compare options for client drive redirection

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

• Manage linked-clone desktops

• Manage persistent disks

8. Creating and Managing RDS Desktop and Application Pools

• Set up RDS hosts to create a farm of hosts

• Deploy and provision RDS desktop pools

• Deploy and provision RDS application pools

• Manage application pools

• Explain how linked clones provide automated management of  RDS server farms

9. Using View Administrator

• Configure the View environment

• Compare authentication options for desktop access

• Compare 3D rendering options such as vDGA and GRID vGPU

• Manage administrators, users, sessions, and policies

• Monitor the View environment

10. Managing View Security

• Describe recommended network configurations and authentication options

• Configure the View security server

• Describe Access Point, a Linux-based  alternative for the DMZ

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 View pod

• Explain performance considerations and load balancing for a  pod

• Explain Cloud Pod Architecture for multiple View pods

 

Hands On Labs

1. Installing and Configuring View Connection Server

• Log in to the Control Center Desktop

• License the vCenter Server System and the ESXi host

• Verify the setup of the virtual machine to be used as the connection server

• License the View Manager software

• Associate vCenter server instance with View Connection Server

• Configure an Event Database

2. Installing Horizon View Agent in Desktops

• Create a vCenter Server Resource Pool for Horizon View Desktop Pools

• Prepare the Windows 7 Desktop

• Install Horizon View Agent

• Establish a Remote Desktop connection to the Virtual Desktop

3. Creating and Entitling a View Desktop

• Clone the dt1 Virtual Machine to a Template

• Modify the Customization Specification that is used to clone Windows 7 Desktops

• Deploy a second Windows Desktop Virtual Machine from the Template

• Verify correct deployment of the Virtual Machine

• Create two manual pools, each with a Desktop Virtual Machine

• Entitle manual pools

4. Installing and Using Horizon Client

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