Course Description
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 de
COURSE OBJECTIVES:By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following 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
Agenda
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
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 floatingassignment pools
- Outline the steps to create an automated pool
- Define user entitlement
- Explain the hierarchy of global, pool-level, and userlevel 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
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
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
VMware Horizon 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 & 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
VMware Horizon Performance and Scalability
- Describe the purpose of a replica connection server
- Explain how multiple Horizon Connection Server
- instances in a pod maintain synchronization
- Describe the 3D rendering options available in
- Horizon 8
- 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
Managing VMware 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
Audience
Operators, administrators, and architects for VMware Horizon should enroll in this course. These individuals are
responsible for the creation, maintenance, and or delivery of remote and virtual desktop services. Additional duties can
include the implementation, support, and administration of an organization's end-user computing infrastructure.