VMware Horizon 7: Install, Configure, Manage [V7.0]
In this course, you will learn how to install, configure, and manage VMware Horizon. You will gain practical experience through the completion of hands-on labs.
Prior to obtaining the VCP6-DTM certification, candidates must attend an authorized VMware training course. This course satisfies that training requirement.
PREREQUISITES
Attendees should possess the following 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
- Create snapshots of virtual machines
- Configure guest customization specifications
- Modify virtual machine properties
- Convert a virtual machine into a template
- Deploy a virtual machine from a template
- Configure Active Directory services, including DNS, DHCP, and time synchronization
- Restrict users’ activities by implementing Group Policy objects
- Configure Windows systems to allow Remote Desktop Connections
- Build an ODBC connection to an SQL Server database
Technical personnel who work in the IT departments of end-customer companies and people who are responsible for the delivery of remote or virtual desktop services
Course Introduction
- Course goals, objectives, and outline
- Additional resources upon completing this course
- Features and benefits of VMware Horizon
- Major function of each VMware Horizon component
- Use case for your virtual desktop and application infrastructure
- VMware vSphere requirements for a connection server
- Network and firewall configurations for View Connection Server
- License VMware Horizon components
- Configure View Connection Server
- Process and choices in setting up VMware Horizon 7 virtual machines
- Remote display protocols that are available in VMware Horizon
- Ports that must be opened in the machine’s firewall for VMware Horizon operations
- Configuration choices when installing Horizon Agent
- Steps to set up a template for desktop pool deployment
- How information on the Users and Groups page can be used to control and monitor View users
- Hierarchy of global policies, pool-level policies, and user-level policies
- View Group Policy administrative (ADM) template files
- Requirements for a Horizon Client installation
- USB redirection and options
- Power states for desktops
- Compare a thin client with a system running Horizon Client
- Benefits of Virtual Printing
- Virtual Printing architecture
- Configuration options for Virtual Printing
- Location-based printing feature
- How an automated pool operates
- Compare dedicated-assignment and floating-assignment pools
- Outline the steps to create an automated pool
- Entitlement of desktops in automated pools
- VMware linked-clone technology
- Why both a parent virtual machine and a snapshot must be used to create linked clones
- System requirements for View Composer
- Relationship between a persistent disk and the system disk
- Outline the steps necessary to set up an automated desktop pool that uses linked clones
- Compare the purpose of the parent and the replica virtual machines
- Compare the linked-clone management operations
- Management operations for persistent disks
- Advantages of instant clones
- Distinguish View Composer clones from instant clones
- Requirements of instant clones
- Types of instant-clone virtual machines
- How folders are used to delegate pool administration
- Outline the steps to set up an automated pool that uses instant clones
- Instant-clone limitations in VMware Horizon 7
- Creation of instant clones
- Set up an automated pool of instant clones
- Difference between an RDS desktop pool and an automated pool
- How a user can access a single application by using the RDS application pool
- Relationship between an RDS host, a farm, and an application pool
- Create an RDS desktop pool and an application pool
- How the View Composer linked-clone technology can automate the build-out of RDS server farms
- Load-balancing options for RDS hosts
- Compare the authentication options that View Connection Server supports
- purpose of TrueSSO single sign-on
- TrueSSO single sign-on components
- Compare tunnels and direct connections for client access to desktops
- Benefits of using either VMware Horizon Security Server or Access Point in the DMZ
- Identify where the tunnel endpoints are in a security server or an Access Point implementation
- Identify the tunnel endpoints when the security gateway is not used
- A direct connection
- Advantages of direct connections
- Use cases and benefits of using User Environment Manager
- User Environment Manager and its architecture
- User Environment Manager functional areas and their benefits
- User Environment Manager profile management and its features
- Use the User Environment Manager management console and application profiler to manage user personalization and application configurations
- How App Volumes works
- Features and benefits of App Volumes
- Interface elements of App Volumes
- Install and configure App Volumes
- Key View Connection Server features that are available as command-line options with the vdmadmin command
- Purpose of kiosk mode for client systems and how it is configured
- Why you might want to limit the domains that View Connection Server makes available to end users
- Log locations for each VMware Horizon component
- Purpose of a replica server
- Compare a replica server to a standard connection server
- How multiple VMware Horizon servers maintain synchronization
- Best practices for multiserver deployment in a pod
- How a load-balancing capability might improve VMware Horizon performance