App Volumes Fast Track + VMware Horizon 8 (HDMAPFT8)
- Duration: 5 days (40 hours)
- Date: on request
App Volumes Fast Track + VMware Horizon 8 (HDMAPFT8)
This course will help:
- Gain the knowledge and skills required to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single platform, i.e. VMware Horizon 8 configuration and management skills
- Understand how to use App Volumes to deliver apps and data to desktops in seconds and at scale
Course syllabus:
- Define a use case for your virtual desktop and application infrastructure
- Convert customer requirements to use-case attributes
- Explain basic virtualization concepts
- Use vSphere Client to access your vCenter Server system and VMware ESXi hosts
- Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Describe how to restrict VMware Horizon connections
- Discuss the benefits of using Unified Access Gateway
- Describe the situation in which you might deploy Unified Access Gateway instances with one, two, or three network interfaces
- Profile Management
- Application Management
- App Volumes components
- Requirements
- Installing and configuring App Volumes Manager
- Installing the App Volumes agent
- Packaging Applications
- Maintaining Applications
- Default writable volume templates
- Creating and provisioning AppStacks
- Assigning and updating AppStacks
- Overriding precedence in AppStacks
- Features and benefits
- VMware Dynamic Environment Manager terminology
- User environment settings and scope
- User profile scenarios
- Infrastructure and system requirements
- VMware Dynamic Environment Manager Agent (FlexEngine) requirements
- Group Policy configuration
- Using the Helpdesk Support Tool
- Scope of VMware Horizon Smart Policies
- Configure VMware Horizon Smart Policies settings
- Define Smart Policies conditions
You will learn:
- 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
Pre-requisites:
This course assumes that students have skills in working with VMware vSphere Web Client, with the virtual machine console on VMware vCenter Server, and students also need to have experience in administering the Microsoft Windows operating system.
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