Upon completion of this course, students are able to:

• 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 RDS pools of desktops and applications
• Use View Administrator to configure the View environment
• Configure secure access to View desktops
• Describe steps to deploy View Persona Management for user profile management
• Manage performance and scalability of a View deployment

Prior to taking this course, it is recommended that learners possess the following skills:

• Ability to create a template in VMware vCenter Server and deploy a virtual machine from template
• Modify a template customization file
• Open a virtual machine console in vCenter Server and access the guest operating system
• Configuring Active Directory Services

Experience in Microsoft Windows Active Directory Administration
Experience with VMware, vSphere

Course Outline

1.Introduction to Horizon and View

• Overview of Horizon 6
• Introduce View features and components

2.View Connection Server

• Install and configure View Connection Server
• Configure View events database and syslog server

3.View Desktops

• Preparing virtual machines as View desktops
• Compare PCoIP and RDP remote display protocols
• Explain USB redirection and multimedia redirection
• Install Horizon™ View Agent™ in a template
• Deploy a manual pool and entitle users to access it

4.Horizon Client Options

• Introduce Horizon Client for Windows and Mac OS X
• Describe HTML Access, thin clients, and zero clients
• Configure Virtual Printing with Horizon Client

5.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™

6.Creating and Managing Linked-Clone Desktop Pools

• Overview of View Composer operations
• Deploy and provision linked-clone desktops
• Compare storage options, including Virtual SAN and tiered storage
• Manage linked-clone desktops
• Manage persistent disks

7.Creating and Managing RDS Desktop and Application Pools

• Set up RDS hosts to create a farm
• Deploy and provision RDS desktop pools
• Deploy and provision RDS application pools
• Mange application pools

8.Using View Administrator

• Configure the View environment
• Compare authentication options for desktop access
• Manage users, sessions, and policies
• Implement role-based delegated administration
• Monitor the View environment

9.Managing View Security

• Describe recommended network configurations and authentication options
• Configure the View security server

10.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

11.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

12.View Performance and Scalability

• Describe multiserver deployments to create a pod
• Explain performance considerations and load balancing for a single pod
• Explain Cloud Pod Architecture for multiple View pod deployments

Hands on labs

Duration: 4 days
Price: $3395

The VMware Horizon View: Install, Configure, Manage [V6.0] course VM-HZN, provides you skills in the VMware® Horizon View™ suite of products: VMware® View Manager™, VMware® View Composer™, and View security server. This course is based on the Horizon View 6.0 release.