Course Overview
VMware Horizon® 8: Virtual Desktop Bootcamp is a five-day combination course of VMware Horizon 8: Skills for Virtual Desktop Management & VMware Horizon 8: Virtual Desktop Troubleshooting. This training collection gives you the skills to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single virtual desktop infrastructure platform. You will build 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 resolve common issues that occur in a VMware Horizon® environment. You will engage in a series of lab exercises to bring existing environment issues to resolution. The exercises mirror real-world troubleshooting use cases. These exercises equip learners with the knowledge and practical skills to manage typical challenges faced by virtual desktop administrators and operators.
Product Alignment
- Horizon 8 V2111
What you’ll learn
- the features and benefits of VMware Horizon
- a use case for your virtual desktop and application infrastructure
- VMware vSphere® to create VMs to be used as desktops for VMware Horizon
- and optimize Windows VMs to create VMware Horizon desktops
- and configure Horizon Agent on a VMware Horizon desktop
- manage, and entitle desktop pools of full VMs
- and manage the VMware Horizon® Client™ systems and connect the client to a VMware Horizon desktop
- manage, and entitle pools of instant-clone desktops
- and use Remote Desktop Services (RDS) desktops and application pools
- the VMware Horizon environment using the VMware Horizon console dashboard and Horizon Help Desk Tool
- a structured approach to troubleshooting
- common issues that occur in VMware Horizon environments
- key VMware Horizon® Connection Server™ features that are available as CLI options with the vdmadmin command
- the log locations for each VMware Horizon component
- procedures to diagnose and fix problems related to the creation and use of machines and desktop pools
- the VMware Logon Monitor requirements
- how to optimize VMware Horizon Windows desktops
- how to troubleshoot problems related to instant-clone machines
- steps that you can follow to solve problems related to Horizon Client
- the troubleshooting techniques for common client connection issues
- the troubleshooting steps applicable to device redirection in VMware Horizon
Certifications VMware Horizon 8: Skills for Virtual Desktop Management is the first half of a two-course requirement for the following certification:
- Certified Professional – Desktop and Mobility 2020 (VCP-DTM 2020).
VMware Horizon 8: Virtual Desktop Troubleshooting does not satisfy a course requirement for the VCP-DTM exam.
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
- 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
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 19 Lessons
- 5 Days
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- Topics19
- 1.11 Course Introduction and course logistics objectives
- 1.22 Introduction to VMware Horizon the features and benefits of VMware Horizon the conceptual and logical architecture of VMware Horizon
- 1.33 Introduction to Use Cases customer requirements to use-case attributes a use case for your virtual desktop and application infrastructure
- 1.44 vSphere for VMware Horizon basic virtualization concepts vSphere Client to access your vCenter system and VMware ESXi™ hosts provision, and remove a virtual machine
- 1.55 VMware Horizon Desktops a Windows and a Linux virtual machine using vSphere and prepare Windows and Linux VMs to set up Vmware Horizon desktop VMs
- 1.66 VMware Horizon Agent the configuration choices when installing Horizon Agent on Windows and Linux virtual machines a golden image for Windows and Linux Horizon desktops
- 1.77 VMware Horizon Pools the steps to set up a template for desktop pool deployment the steps to add desktops to the Horizon Connection Server inventory dedicated-assignment and floating-assignment pools the steps to create an automated pool user entitlement the hierarchy of global, pool-level, and user-level policies
- 1.88 VMware Horizon Client Options the different clients and their benefits the VMware Horizon desktop using various Horizon clients and HTML integrated printing, USB redirection, and the shared folders option session collaboration and media optimization for Microsoft Teams
- 1.99 Creating and Managing Instant-Clone Desktop Pools the advantages of instant clones the provisioning technology used for instant-clone desktop pools up an automated pool of instant clones updated images to instant-clone desktop pools
- 1.1010 Creating RDS Desktop and Application Pools the difference between an RDS desktop pool and an automated pool and contrast an RDS session host pool, a farm, and an application pool an RDS desktop pool and an application pool RDS desktops and application from Horizon Client the instant clone technology to automate the build-out of Remote Desktop Service Host (RDSH) farms load-balancing for RDSHs on a farm
- 1.1111 Monitoring VMware Horizon the status of the VMware Horizon components using the Horizon Administrator console dashboard desktop sessions using Horizon Help Desk Tool
- 1.1212 Overview of Virtual Desktop and Application Virtualization Troubleshooting VMware Horizon architecture and supportability using VMware documentation systematic troubleshooting methods to logically diagnose faults by collecting valid and accurate information regarding the environment and problems the different approaches to take when a problem occurs and how to document them
- 1.1313 Command-Line Tools and Backup Options key Horizon Connection Server features that are available as CLI options with the vdmadmin command and collect the log locations for each VMware Horizon component the VMware Horizon backup and restore and its benefits the database reporting functionality and the steps to resolve inconsistencies
- 1.1414 Troubleshooting Machines and Desktops the information available in Horizon Help Desk Tool the procedures for diagnosing and fixing problems while creating and using machines and desktop pools the procedures for diagnosing and fixing problems while creating and using Linux desktops
- 1.1515 Horizon End-User Performance and Optimization the VMware Logon Monitor requirements the VMware Logon Monitor configuration the VMware Logon Monitor metrics the advantages of image optimization how to optimize VMware Horizon Windows desktops
- 1.1616 Troubleshooting Instant Clones how instant clones are created what gets logged when an instant clone is created the keywords to look for in the logs when troubleshooting instant clones how to troubleshoot problems with instant clones
- 1.1717 Troubleshooting Horizon Client steps that you can follow to solve problems related to Windows Horizon Client steps that you can follow to solve problems related to Linux Horizon Client steps that you can follow to solve problems related to HTML Horizon Client steps that you can follow to solve problems related to Mac Horizon Client
- 1.1818 Troubleshooting Common Client Connection Issues the key ports and protocols used in VMware Horizon environments how to troubleshoot black screen problems
- 1.1919 Troubleshooting Device Redirection troubleshooting steps applicable to USB redirection issues nested RDSH redirection
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