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VMware Horizon 8: Skills for Virtual Desktop Management Training

This three-day, hands-on course gives you the skills to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single virtual desktop infrastructure platform. This course builds your skills in configuring and managing VMware Horizon® 8 through a combination of lecture and hands-on labs. You learn how to configure and deploy pools of virtual machines and how to provide a customized desktop environment to end-users.
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Course Details

Duration

3 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

Target Audience

  • Operators, administrators, and architects for VMware Horizon.
  • Individuals responsible for the creation, maintenance, and or delivery of remote and virtual desktop services.

Skills Gained

  • Recognize the features and benefits of Horizon
  • Use VMware vSphere® to create VMs to be used as desktops for Horizon
  • Create and optimize Windows VMs to create 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 Horizon environment using Horizon Console Dashboard and Horizon Help Desk Tool
Course Outline
  • Introduction to VMware Horizon
    • Recognize the features and benefits of Horizon
    • Describe the conceptual and logical architecture of Horizon
  • Introduction to Use Case
    • Define a use case for your virtual desktop and application infrastructure
    • Convert customer requirements to use-case attributes
  • vSphere for Horizon 8
    • Explain basic virtualization concepts
    • Use VMware vSphere® Client™ to access your vCenter Server system and VMware ESXi™ hosts
    • Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine
  • VMware Horizon Desktops
    • Create a Windows and a Linux virtual machine using vSphere
    • Optimize and prepare Windows and Linux virtual machines to set up Horizon desktop VMs
  • VMware Horizon Agents
    • Outline the configuration choices when installing Horizon Agent on Windows and Linux virtual machines
    • Create a gold master for Windows Horizon desktops
  • VMware Horizon Pools
    • Identify the steps to set up a template for desktop pool deployment
    • List the steps to add desktops to the VMware Horizon® Connection Server™ inventory
    • Compare dedicated-assignment and floating-assignment pools
    • Outline the steps to create an automated pool
    • Define user entitlement
    • Explain the hierarchy of global, pool-level, and user-level policies
  • VMware Horizon Client Options
    • Describe the different clients and their benefits
    • Access Horizon desktop using various Horizon clients and HTML
    • Configure integrated printing, USB redirection, and the shared folders option
    • Configure session collaboration and media optimization for Microsoft Teams
  • Creating and Managing Instant-Clone Desktop Pools
    • List the advantages of instant clones
    • 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
  • Creating RDS Desktop and Application 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
  • Monitoring VMware Horizon
    • Monitor the status of the Horizon components using the Horizon Administrator console dashboard
    • Monitor desktop sessions using the HelpDesk tool
    • VMware Horizon 8 V2006
  • Certification
    • VMware Horizon 8: Skills for Virtual Desktop Management is the first half of a two-course requirement for the following certification:
    • VMware Certified Professional – Desktop and Mobility 2020 (VCP-DTM 2020).
    • VMware Horizon 8: Infrastructure Administration satisfies the second requirement. The courses are also available as a single, bundled offering, VMware Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage, which meets the certification requirement on its own.