VMware Horizon 8: Infrastructure Administration and Troubleshooting VMware (HIAT8)
- Duration: 5 days (40 hours)
- Date: on request
VMware Horizon 8: Infrastructure Administration and Troubleshooting VMware (HIAT8)
This course will help:
- Gain the knowledge and skills needed to install, configure, and troubleshoot VMware Horizon 8
- Learn how to work with VMware Horizon Connection Server, VMware Unified Access Gateway, configure a load balancer for use with Horizon, and create a Cloud Pod architecture
Course syllabus:
- Recognize VMware Horizon reference architecture
- Identify the Horizon Connection Server supported features
- Identify the recommended system requirements for Horizon Connection Server
- Compare the authentication options that Horizon Connection Server supports
- Describe the Smartcard authentication options that Horizon Connection Server supports
- Describe the roles available in a 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 Horizon environment
- Recognize the features and benefits of Workspace ONE Access
- Explain identity management in Workspace ONE Access
- Describe the Workspace ONE Access directory integration
- Deploy virtual applications with Workspace services
- Compare the remote display protocols that are available in VMware Horizon
- Describe the BLAST Display Protocol Codecs
- Summarize BLAST Codec options
- List ideal applications for each BLAST codec
- Describe BLAST and PCoIP ADMX GPO common configurations
- Describe the 3D rendering options available in Horizon 8
- Compare vSGA and vDGA
- List the steps to configure graphics cards for use in a Horizon environment
- Describe the purpose of a replica connection server
- Explain how multiple Horizon Connection Server instances in a pod maintain synchronization
- List the steps to configure graphics cards for use in a Horizon environment
- Configure a load balancer for use in a Horizon environment
- Explain Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture LDAP replication and VIPA
- Explain Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture scalability options
- Explain concepts relevant to secure Horizon connections
- Describe how to restrict 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
- Discuss Horizon Connection Server General Troubleshooting techniques
- Use logs to identity Horizon Connection Server common issues
- Describe Active Directory (AD) Lightweight Directory Service (LDS) Replication
- Discuss Horizon Connection Server Replication common issues
- Review and Interpret Horizon Connection Servers logs
- Compare successful and unsuccessful logs from common infrastructure administration tasks
- List and identify common UAG deployment issues
- Monitor the UAG deployment to identify health and issues
- Identify and Troubleshoot UAG certificate issues
- Monitor, test, and troubleshoot network errors
- Discuss general UAG troubleshooting processes
- Discuss BLAST Codecs and Encoder Switch settings
- Describe how to verify BLAST configuration using logs and settings
- List general BLAST optimization recommendations
- Summarize BLAST tuning recommendations that apply to WAN connections
- Summarize BLAST tuning recommendations that apply to work-from-home and home-office-to-cloud use cases
- Describe recommended tuning options to increase display protocol quality for all use cases and applications
- Explain Horizon Connections
- Describe the role of Primary and Secondary protocols in Horizon Connections
- Describe HTML Client Access Connections
- Describe Horizon Connections Load Balancing
- Describe timeout settings, supported health monitoring string, and suitable Load balancer persistence values
- Identify troubleshooting steps for failing Horizon Load Balancer connections
- List troubleshooting steps for Horizon Connections
- List Horizon certificate functions.
- Describe Horizon certificates scenarios
- Discuss potential challenges related to certificates in Horizon
- Describe the troubleshooting approach to Horizon certificates issues
- Describe Cloud Pod Architecture troubleshooting scenarios
You will learn:
- Identify VMware Horizon Connection Server installation, architecture and requirements
- Describe the authentication and certificate options for a Horizon environment
- Recognize the integration process and benefits of Workspace ONE Access and Horizon 8
- Compare the remote display protocols that are available in VMware Horizon
- Describe the 3D rendering options available in Horizon 8
- Discuss scalability options available in Horizon 8
- Describe different security options for Horizon environment
- Discuss Connection Server advanced configurations
- List troubleshooting techniques for Connection Server common issues
- Interpret VMware Horizon 8 Connection Server logs
- Identify Unified Access Gateway configuration and certificate problems
- List troubleshooting steps for Unified Access Gateway common problems
- Describe BLAST configuration verification using logs and settings
- Describe BLAST optimization recommendations for different use cases
- Describe VMware Horizon 8 Connections and how to troubleshoot related problems
- Describe VMware Horizon 8 Certificates
- List troubleshooting steps for VMware Horizon 8 certificates common issues.
- Describe Cloud Pod Architecture troubleshooting scenarios
- Identify and fix problems in a VMware Horizon environment
Pre-requisites:
This course assumes that students have experience administering Microsoft Windows and Linux systems, as well as skills in working with VMware vSphere Web Client and ability to use the VMware vCenter Server console.
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