EDU-HIAT8
VMware Horizon 8: Infrastructure Administration and Troubleshooting Training
VMware Horizon 8: Infrastructure Administrator and Troubleshooting is a five-day combination course of VMware Horizon 8: Infrastructure Administration & VMware Horizon 8: Infrastructure Troubleshooting. This 5-day training gives you the skills to install and configure a virtual desktop infrastructure platform. This course builds your skills in installing and configuring VMware Horizon® through a combination of lecture and hands-on labs. You learn how to install and configure VMware Horizon® Connection Server™, VMware Unified Access Gateway™, how to configure a load balancer for use with Horizon, and how to establish Cloud Pod Architecture.
Also, this course provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to troubleshoot VMware Horizon 8 infrastructure. This workshop teaches the required skill and competence for troubleshooting Horizon Connection Server, Unified Access Gateway, protocols, connections, and certificates.
Course Details
Duration
5 days
Prerequisites
VMware infrastructure skills:
- Use VMware vSphere® Web Client to view the state of virtual machines, datastores, and networks
- Open a virtual machine console on VMware vCenter Server® and access the guest operating system
- Configure Active Directory services, including DNS, DHCP, and time synchronization
- Restrict user activities by implementing Group Policy objects
- Configure Windows systems to enable Remote Desktop Connections
- Build an ODBC connection to an SQL Server database
Target Audience
Tier 1 system administrators, and integrators responsible for managing and maintaining VMware Horizon Infrastructure.
Skills Gained
- 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
Course Outline
- Horizon Connection Server
- Recognize VMware Horizon reference architecture
- Identify the Horizon Connection Server supported features
- Identify the recommended system requirements for Horizon Connection Server
- Configure Horizon event database
- Outline the steps for the initial configuration of Horizon Connection Server
- Discuss the AD LDS database as a critical component of Horizon Connection Server installation
- Authentication and Certificates
- 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 Horizon administrator and custom roles
- 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
- Workspace ONE Access and Virtual Application Management
- 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
- Deploy virtual applications with Workspace services
- Horizon Protocols
- Compare the remote display protocols that are available in VMware Horizon
- Describe BLAST
- 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
- Graphics Cards
- 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
- Horizon Scalability
- 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
- Horizon Security
- 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
- Horizon Connection Server Troubleshooting
- 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.
- Unified Access Gateway Troubleshooting
- 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.
- BLAST Configuration Verification
- Discuss BLAST Codecs and Encoder Switch settings.
- Describe how to verify BLAST configuration using logs and settings.
- BLAST Optimization
- 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.
- Horizon Connections Troubleshooting
- 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.
- Horizon Certificates Troubleshooting
- List Horizon certificate functions.
- Describe Horizon certificates scenarios.
- Discuss potential challenges related to certificates in Horizon
- Describe the troubleshooting approach to Horizon certificates issues
- Cloud Pod Architecture Troubleshooting
- Describe Cloud Pod Architecture troubleshooting scenarios
