VMware Horizon 7 Workshop (VHDW)
- Duration: 3 days (24 hours)
- Date: on request
VMware Horizon 7 Workshop (VHDW)
This course will help:
- Gain the knowledge and skills needed to analyze various design options and develop an infrastructure architecture that will meet business needs
- Gain hands-on experience developing a VMware Horizon infrastructure design that meets your organization’s needs and adheres to VMware guidelines
- Prepare for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Desktop and Mobility Design 2020 certification
Course syllabus:
- Define customer business objectives
- Gather and analyze business and application requirements
- Use a systematic methodology to evaluate and document design decisions
- Identify the design process to build a VMware Horizon solution
- Identify the VMware Horizon reference architecture
- Outline the process to define a use case
- Determine use cases for a given business case study
- Outline the process to define service definition
- Identify the components of a typical VMware Horizon block and pod
- Outline the relationships between VMware Horizon management block components
- Design a VMware Horizon desktop block and pod configuration for a given use case
- Configure cloud pod architecture for multisite pool access
- List the key considerations for sizing hardware for a desktop virtual machine
- Identify key virtual desktop performance tuning and Windows optimizations and their effects on VMware Horizon performance
- Map use cases to VMware Horizon instances and VMware Horizon pools
- Design desktop pools for a given use case
- Identify factors and design decisions that determine the sizing for VMware ESXi hosts
- Estimate and size CPU and memory requirements
- Determine cluster requirements for VMware vSphere High Availability and VMware vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler
- Outline the privileges that are required by an administrative user account
- Identify factors that determine the sizing for shared storage
- Determine storage-sizing formulas for clone disks
- Reduce storage requirements with instant clones
- Identify use cases and benefits of using View Storage Accelerator
- Identify use cases and benefits of using VMware vSAN
- Identify the design decisions related to bandwidth use
- Identify use cases and benefits of using load balancing and traffic management
- Identify the best practices for avoiding network congestion
- Recognize the PCoIP and Blast Extreme optimization strategies
- Describe the design considerations for sizing network capacity
- Evaluate security features of the security server and VMware Unified Access Gateway
- Compare the security server and Unified Access Gateway
- Configure Horizon Persona Management for end-user personalization
- Discuss the use of VMware User Environment Manager for personalizing desktops
- Identify VMware best practices for Active Directory containers, groups, and Group Policy object policies in a VMware Horizon solution
- Identify VMware best practices for True SSO
- Identify client device characteristics and requirements
- Describe the importance of the application delivery mechanism
- Determine which VMware Horizon application tool should be used to accomplish which business objectives
- Design and create Remote Desktop Services farms and application pools to support the deployment of applications
You will learn:
- Evaluate business and application requirements
- Analyze various design options and develop an EUC infrastructure architecture that meets the needs
- Design a VMware Horizon infrastructure that meets the needs of the organization and adheres to VMware guidelines
- Develop documentation during the infrastructure design process
- Develop a comprehensive VMware Horizon solution
Pre-requisites:
This course assumes that students have experience implementing virtual desktops, knowledge of the VMware Horizon 7.10: Install, Configure, Manage (VHVICM) course or equivalent experience, and an understanding of the basics of VMware Data Center Virtualization.
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