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VMware Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage plus App Volumes Fast Track

VMware Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage plus App Volumes Fast Track

This five-day accelerated, hands-on training course is a blend of VMware Horizon® 8: Skills for Virtual Desktop Management, VMware Horizon 8: Infrastructure Administration, and VMware App...

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Course Code EDU-HDMAVFT8

Duration 5 days

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This five-day accelerated, hands-on training course is a blend of VMware Horizon® 8: Skills for Virtual Desktop Management, VMware Horizon 8: Infrastructure Administration, and VMware App Volumes™, and VMware Dynamic Environment Manager™. Eight days of content are taught in five-days of extending learning. This training collection gives you the hands-on skills to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single virtual desktop infrastructure platform. You 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. You learn how to install and configure a virtual desktop infrastructure platform. You learn how to install and configure VMware Horizon® Connection Server™ and VMware Unified Access Gateway™. You also learn how to configure a load balancer for use with Horizon and how to establish Cloud Pod Architecture. Additionally, you learn how to use App Volumes to deliver applications and data to desktops and users in seconds and at scale. You gain skills in managing application life cycles from installation to update and replacement. You also learn how to use Dynamic Environment Manager to provide personalization and dynamic policy configuration across virtual, physical, and cloud-based environments to simplify end-user profile management.

Skills Gained

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

Recognize the features and benefits of VMware Horizon
Use VMware vSphere® to create VMs to be used as desktops for VMware Horizon
Create and optimize Windows VMs to create VMware Horizon desktops
Install and configure Horizon Agent on Horizon desktop
Configure and manage the VMware Horizon® Client™ systems and connect the client to a VMware Horizon desktop
Configure, manage, and entitle desktop pools of full VMs
Configure, manage, and entitle pools of instant-clone desktops
Create and use Remote Desktop Services (RDS) desktops and application pools
Monitor the VMware Horizon environment using Horizon Console Dashboard and Horizon Help Desk Tool
Identify Horizon Connection Server installation, architecture, and requirements.
Describe the authentication and certification options for a VMware Horizon environment
Recognize the integration process and benefits of VMware Workspace ONE® Access™ and Horizon 8
Discuss performance and scalability options available in Horizon 8
Describe different security options for the Horizon environment
Describe the features and functions of App Volumes and Dynamic Environment Manager
Demonstrate the architectures of App Volumes and Dynamic Environment Manager
Install and configure App Volumes
Create and deploy Application Packages and writable volumes
Install and configure Dynamic Environment Manager
Manage application configurations, user environment settings, and personalization settings

Who Can Benefit

Operators, administrators, and architects for VMware Horizon should enroll in this course. These individuals are responsible for the creation, maintenance, 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 and should also have the following Microsoft Windows system administration experience:

Use VMware vSphere® Web Client to view the state of virtual machines, datastores, and networks
Open a virtual machine console on VMware vCenter Server® and access the guest operating system
Create snapshots of virtual machines
Configure guest customization specifications
Modify virtual machine properties
Convert a virtual machine into a template
Deploy a virtual machine from a template
Configure Active Directory services, including DNS, DHCP, and time synchronization
Restrict user activities by implementing Group Policy objects
Configure Windows systems to enable Remote Desktop Connections
Build an ODBC connection to an SQL Server database

Course Details

Product Alignment

VMware Horizon 8 v2006

Certifications

VMware Certified Professional – Desktop and Mobility 2020 (VCP-DTM 2020).

Outline

Course Introduction

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

Introduction to VMware Horizon

Recognize the features and benefits of Horizon
Describe the conceptual and logical architecture of VMware Horizon

Introduction to Use Case

Define a use case for your virtual desktop and application infrastructure
Convert customer requirements to use-case attributes

vSphere for Horizon 8

Explain basic virtualization concepts
Use vSphere Client to access your vCenter Server system and VMware ESXi™ hosts
Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine

VMware Horizon Desktops

Create a Windows and a Linux virtual machine using vSphere
Optimize and prepare Windows and Linux virtual machines to set up VMware Horizon desktop VMs

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

VMware Horizon Pools

Identify the steps to set up a template for desktop pool deployment
List the steps to add desktops to the 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

VMware Horizon Client Options

Describe the different clients and their benefits
Access the VMware Horizon desktop using various VMware Horizon clients and HTML
Configure integrated printing, USB redirection, and the shared folders option
Configure session collaboration and media optimization for Microsoft Teams

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

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

Monitoring VMware Horizon

Monitor the status of the VMware Horizon components using the Horizon Administrator console dashboard
Monitor desktop sessions using the HelpDesk tool

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 the Horizon Connection Server installation

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 VMware Horizon administrator and custom roles
Describe the roles available in a VMware 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 VMware Horizon environment

Workspace ONE Access and 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

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 VMware Horizon 8
List the steps to configure graphics cards for use in a VMware Horizon environment
Configure a load balancer for use in a VMware Horizon environment
Explain Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture LDAP replication and VIPA
Explain Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture scalability options

Managing VMware Horizon Security

Explain concepts relevant to secure VMware Horizon connections
Describe how to restrict VMware 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

Overview of Application and Profile Management

Profile Management
Application Management

Overview of App Volumes

App Volumes components

App Volumes Installation Overview

Requirements
Installing and configuring App Volumes Manager
Installing the App Volumes agent

Working with Application Packages

Packaging Applications
Maintaining Applications

Working with Writable Volumes

Default writable volume templates
Writable volume policies at creation
Updating and rescanning writable volumes

Working with AppStacks

Enabling AppStacks
Creating and provisioning AppStacks
Assigning and updating AppStacks
Overriding precedence in AppStacks

Overview of Dynamic Environment Manager

Features and benefits
VMware Dynamic Environment Manager terminology
User environment settings and scope
User profile scenarios

Install VMware Dynamic Environment Manager

Infrastructure and system requirements
VMware Dynamic Environment Manager Agent (FlexEngine) requirements
Group Policy configuration
Management Console configuration

Management Console User Interface

Personalize User Profile
User environment configuration

Application Configuration Management

Predefined and user-customized application settings
Using Application Profiler
Using the Self-Support Tool
Using the Helpdesk Support Tool

VMware Horizon Smart Policies

Scope of VMware Horizon Smart Policies
Configure VMware Horizon Smart Policies settings
Define Smart Policies conditions

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