VMware Horizon 8: Deploy and ManageVMware Horizon 8: Deploy and Mana

VMware Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage is a five-day combination course of VMware Horizon 8: Skills for Virtual Desktop Management & VMware Horizon 8: Infrastructure Administration. This training collection gives you the hands-on skills to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single virtual desktop infrastructure platform. You will build on 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. Additionally, you will learn how to install and configure a virtual desktop infrastructure platform. 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.    

Course Objectives:

• 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
• Identify Horizon Connection Server installation, architecture, and requirements.
• Describe the authentication and certification options for a Horizon environment
• Recognize the integration process and benefits of VMware Workspace ONE® Access™ and Horizon 8
• Discuss performance and scalability options available in Horizon 8
• Describe different security options for the Horizon environment

Audience:

Experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for designing and implementing Horizon solutions

Prerequisites:

• 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 user activities by implementing Group Policy objects
• Configure Windows systems to enable Remote Desktop Connections
• Build an ODBC connection to an SQL Server database

Outline

1  Course Introduction

•  Introductions and course logistics

•  Course objectives

2  Introduction to VMware Horizon

•  Recognize the features and benefits of Horizon

•  Describe the conceptual and logical architecture of Horizon

3  Introduction to Use Case

•  Define a use case for your virtual desktop and application infrastructure

•  Convert customer requirements to use-case attributes

4  vSphere for VMware Horizon

•  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

5  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

6  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

7  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

8  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

9  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

10  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

11  Monitoring VMware Horizon

•  Monitor the status of the Horizon components using the Horizon Administrator console dashboard

•  Monitor desktop sessions using the HelpDesk tool

12  Course Introduction

•  Introductions and course logistics

•  Course objectives

13  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 the Horizon event database

•  Outline the steps for the initial configuration of Horizon Connection Server

•  Discuss the ADAM database as a critical component of Horizon Connection Server installation

14  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

15  Workspace ONE Access & 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

•  Describe the Workspace ONE Access directory integration

•  Deploy virtual applications with Workspace services

16  Horizon Protocols

•  Compare the remote display protocols that are available in VMware Horizon

•  Describe the BLAST Display Protocol Codecs

•  Describe BLAST and PCoIP ADMX GPO common configurations

17  Graphic 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 VMware Horizon environment

18  Horizon Scalability

•  Describe the purpose of a replica connection server

•  Explain how multiple Horizon Connection Server instances in a pod maintain synchronization

•  Explain Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture LDAP replication and VIPA

•  Explain Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture scalability options

19  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