When does class start/end?
Classes begin promptly at 9:00 am, and typically end at 5:00 pm.
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.
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, 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.
Customers attending this course should have, at a minimum, the following skills and should also have the following Microsoft Windows system administration experience:
Course Introduction
Introduction to VMware Horizon
Introduction to Use Case
vSphere for Horizon 8
VMware Horizon Desktops
VMware Horizon Agents
VMware Horizon Pools
VMware Horizon Client Options
Creating and Managing Instant-Clone Desktop Pools
Creating RDS Desktop and Application Pools
Monitoring VMware Horizon
Horizon Connection Server
VMware Horizon Authentication and Certificates
Workspace ONE Access and Virtual Application Management
VMware Horizon Performance and Scalability
Managing VMware Horizon Security
Overview of Application and Profile Management
Overview of App Volumes
App Volumes Installation Overview
Working with Application Packages
Working with Writable Volumes
Working with AppStacks
Overview of Dynamic Environment Manager
Install VMware Dynamic Environment Manager
Management Console User Interface
Application Configuration Management
VMware Horizon Smart Policies
Classes begin promptly at 9:00 am, and typically end at 5:00 pm.
Lunch is normally an hour long and begins at noon. Coffee, tea, hot chocolate and juice are available all day in the kitchen. Fruit, muffins and bagels are served each morning. There are numerous restaurants near each of our centers, and some popular ones are indicated on the Area Map in the Student Welcome Handbooks - these can be picked up in the lobby or requested from one of our ExitCertified staff.
If someone should need to contact you while you are in class, please have them call the center telephone number and leave a message with the receptionist.
Most courses are conducted in English, unless otherwise specified. Some courses will have the word "FRENCH" marked in red beside the scheduled date(s) indicating the language of instruction.
GTR stands for Guaranteed to Run; if you see a course with this status, it means this event is confirmed to run. View our GTR page to see our full list of Guaranteed to Run courses.
We have training locations across the United States and Canada. View a full list of classroom training locations.
At ExitCertified we offer training that is Instructor-Led, Online, Virtual and Self-Paced.
Yes, we provide training for groups, individuals and private on sites. View our group training page for more information.
Yes, we provide training for groups, individuals, and private on sites. View our group training page for more information.
The course was engaging and interesting and I am looking forward to future courses.
There were too many emails and it was confusing trying to understand what information we would be getting from which emails.
good and precise with some good lab practices. Explaied everything in good way
Attended a Power BI class in McLean with this company. The instructor (Mike Staves) was very good and attentive to the groups' learning needs. The facility was very good and the staff was more than accommodating.
Easy to navigate and good communication via email for preparation for classes.
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