VMware Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage is a five-day combination course of VMware Horizon 8: Skills for Virtual Desktop Management & VMware Horizon 8: Infrastructure Administration. This training collection gives you the hands-on skills to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single virtual desktop infrastructure platform. You will build on your skills in configuring and managing VMware Horizon® 8 through a combination of lecture and hands-on labs. You learn how to configure and deploy pools of virtual machines and how to provide a customized desktop environment to end-users. Additionally, you will learn how to install and configure a virtual desktop infrastructure platform. You learn how to install and configure VMware Horizon® Connection Server™, VMware Unified Access Gateway™, how to configure a load balancer for use with Horizon, and how to establish Cloud Pod Architecture.
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Operators, administrators, and architects for VMware Horizon should enroll in this course. These individuals are responsible for the creation, maintenance, and or delivery of remote and virtual desktop services. Additional duties can include the implementation, support, and administration of an organization's end-user computing infrastructure.
Prerequisites
Customers attending this course should have, at a minimum, the following skills:
Attendees should also have the following Microsoft Windows system administration experience:
Certifications
35 godzin (5 dni x 7 godzin), w tym wykłady i warsztaty praktyczne.
1. Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
2. Introduction to VMware Horizon
• Recognize the features and benefits of Horizon
• Describe the conceptual and logical architecture of Horizon
3. Introduction to Use Case
• Define a use case for your virtual desktop and application infrastructure
• Convert customer requirements to use-case attributes
4. vSphere for Horizon 8
• Explain basic virtualization concepts
• Use VMware vSphere® Client™ to access your vCenter Server system and
VMware ESXi™ hosts
• Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine
5. VMware Horizon Desktops
• Create a Windows and a Linux virtual machine using vSphere
• Optimize and prepare Windows and Linux virtual machines to set up
Horizon desktop VMs
6. VMware Horizon Agents
• Outline the configuration choices when installing Horizon Agent on
Windows and Linux virtual machines
• Create a gold master for Windows Horizon desktops
7. VMware Horizon Pools
• Identify the steps to set up a template for desktop pool deployment
• List the steps to add desktops to the VMware Horizon® Connection
Server™ inventory
• Compare dedicated-assignment and floating-assignment pools
• Outline the steps to create an automated pool
• Define user entitlement
• Explain the hierarchy of global, pool-level, and user-level policies
8. VMware Horizon Client Options
• Describe the different clients and their benefits
• Access Horizon desktop using various Horizon clients and HTML
• Configure integrated printing, USB redirection, and the shared folders
option
• Configure session collaboration and media optimization for Microsoft Teams
9. Creating and Managing Instant-Clone Desktop Pools
• List the advantages of instant clones
• Explain the provisioning technology used for instant clone desktop pools
• Set up an automated pool of instant clones
• Push updated images to instant clone desktop pools
10. Creating RDS Desktop and Application Pools
• Explain the difference between an RDS desktop pool and an automated
pool
• Compare and contrast an RDS session host pool, a farm, and an
application pool
• Create an RDS desktop pool and an application pool
• Access RDS desktops and application from Horizon Client
• Use the instant clone technology to automate the build-out of RDSH farms
• Configure load-balancing for RDSHs on a farm
11. Monitoring VMware Horizon
• Monitor the status of the Horizon components using the Horizon
Administrator console dashboard
• Monitor desktop sessions using the HelpDesk tool
12. Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
13. Horizon Connection Server
• Recognize VMware Horizon reference architecture
• Identify the Horizon Connection Server supported features
• Identify the recommended system requirements for Horizon Connection
Server
• Configure the Horizon event database
• Outline the steps for the initial configuration of Horizon Connection Server
• Discuss the ADAM database as a critical component of Horizon Connection
Server installation
14. VMware Horizon Authentication and Certificates
• Compare the authentication options that Horizon Connection Server
supports
• Describe the Smartcard authentication options that Horizon Connection
Server supports
• Outline the steps to create a Horizon administrator and custom roles
• Describe the roles available in a Horizon environment
• Explain the role that certificates play for Horizon Connection Server
• Install and configure certificates for Horizon Connection Server
• Install and configure True SSO in a Horizon environment
15. Workspace ONE Access & Virtual Application Management
• Recognize the features and benefits of Workspace ONE Access
• Recognize the Workspace ONE Access console features
• Explain identity management in Workspace ONE Access
• Explain access management in Workspace ONE Access
• Describe the Workspace ONE Access directory integration
• Describe the Workspace ONE Access directory integration
• Deploy virtual applications with Workspace services
16. VMware Horizon Performance and Scalability
• Describe the purpose of a replica connection server
• Explain how multiple Horizon Connection Server instances in a pod
maintain synchronization
• Describe the 3D rendering options available in Horizon 8
• List the steps to configure graphics cards for use in a Horizon environment
• Configure a load balancer for use in a Horizon environment
• Explain Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture LDAP replication and VIPA
• Explain Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture scalability options
17. Managing VMware Horizon Security
• Explain concepts relevant to secure Horizon connections
• Describe how to restrict Horizon connections.
• Discuss the benefits of using Unified Access Gateway
• List the two-factor authentication options that are supported by Unified
Access Gateway
• List Unified Access Gateway firewall rules
• Describe the situation in which you might deploy Unified Access Gateway
instances with one, two, or three network interfaces
