Course Overview
This three-day, hands-on training 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.
This course also provides a challenge lab designed to present participants with infrastructure issues that may arise in actual Horizon environments. The lab objective is to put into practice the contents covered during the training to create a working environment.
Product Alignment
- Horizon 8 v2111
What you’ll learn
- Connection Server advanced configurations.
- troubleshooting techniques for Connection Server common issues.
- VMware Horizon 8 Connection Server logs.
- UAG configuration and certificate issues.
- troubleshooting steps for UAG common issues.
- BLAST configuration verification using logs and settings.
- BLAST optimization recommendations for different use cases.
- VMware Horizon 8 Connections and how to troubleshoot related issues.
- VMware Horizon 8 Certificates.
- troubleshooting steps for VMware Horizon 8 certificates’ common issues.
- Cloud Pod Architecture troubleshooting scenarios
- and fix problems in a VMware Horizon environment
Requirements
- VMware vSphere® Web Client to view the state of virtual machines, datastores, and networks
- a virtual machine console on VMware vCenter Server® and access the guest operating system
- Active Directory services, including DNS, DHCP, and time synchronization
- user activities by implementing Group Policy objects
- Windows systems to enable Remote Desktop Connections
- an ODBC connection to an SQL Server database
Target audiences
- Tier 1 system administrators, and integrators responsible for managing and maintaining VMware Horizon Infrastructure.
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 8 Lessons
- 3 Days
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- Topics8
- 1.11 Course Introduction and course logistics objectives
- 1.22 Troubleshooting Horizon Connection Server general troubleshooting techniques for Horizon Connection Server how to use logs to identify common Horizon Connection Server problems Active Directory (AD) Lightweight Directory Service (LDS) Replication Horizon Connection Server Replication common issues how to interpret Horizon Connection Server logs successful and unsuccessful logs from common infrastructure administration tasks
- 1.33 Troubleshooting Unified Access Gateway and identify common UAG deployment issues how to monitor the health of a Unified Access Gateway deployment and Troubleshoot UAG certificate issues how to monitor, test, and troubleshoot network errors using tcpdump and curl general Unified Access Gateway troubleshooting methods
- 1.44 BLAST Configuration BLAST Codecs and Encoder Switch settings how to verify BLAST configuration using logs and settings
- 1.55 Optimizing BLAST general BLAST optimization recommendations BLAST tuning recommendations that apply to WAN connections BLAST tuning recommendations that apply to work-from-home and home-office-to-cloud use cases recommended tuning options to increase display protocol quality for all use cases and applications
- 1.66 Troubleshooting VMware Horizon Connections VMware Horizon connections the role of primary and secondary protocols in VMware Horizon connections HTML Client Access Connections Horizon Connections Load Balancing timeout settings, supported health monitoring string, and suitable Load balancer persistence values troubleshooting steps for failing Horizon Load Balancer connections the steps for troubleshooting VMware Horizon connections
- 1.77 Troubleshooting VMware Horizon Certificates VMware Horizon certificate functions VMware Horizon certificate scenarios potential challenges related to certificates in VMware Horizon the troubleshooting approach to Horizon certificates issues
- 1.88 Cloud Pod Architecture Cloud Pod Architecture troubleshooting scenarios
Instructor
