VMware View: Desktop FastTrack

This fast-paced, extended-hour training course includes the content of the following courses: VMware View: Install, Configure, Manage Application Virtualization with VMware ThinApp VMware View: Design Best Practices. This hands-on training course builds your skills in the VMware View™ suite of products: VMware View Manager, VMware View Composer, and VMware® ThinApp™. It will provide applications oriented administrators with the knowledge and skills to virtualize Windows applications with ThinApp and to choose the best deployment and updating processes for their environment. The course will also present a methodology for analyzing and designing a View solution for the VMware vSphere™ infrastructure. The course is based on View 4.5 and ThinApp 4.5 and 4.6. It includes a prepaid voucher for the VMware Certified Associate 4 – Desktop examination.

Pre-Requisites

Completion of VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent experience with vSphere

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, you should understand the features andoperation of View, View design principles, and ThinApp operation.

You should be able to do the following:

• Install and configure View components
• Create and manage dedicated and floating desktop pools
• Deploy and manage linked-clone virtual desktops
• Configure and manage desktops that run in local mode
• Configure secure access to desktops through a public network
• Use ThinApp to package applications
• Describe the major components of the ThinApp architecture
• Modify Package.ini parameters to increase the variety and complexity of applications that can be virtualized
• Use Application Link to dynamically link application components like Microsoft .NET to multiple applications
• Use Application Sync to update applications deployed from servers
• Troubleshoot problems with ThinApp packages
• Identify design goals, requirements, and constraints
• Identify information that is required for design decisions
• Recognize situations that benefit from best-practice recommendations
• Use the recommended design process

Analyze design choices in the following areas:

• View Manager infrastructure
• View desktop options
• vSphere infrastructure
• Network infrastructure
• End-user management

Construct a comprehensive View solution

Course Modules

Application Virtualization with VMware ThinApp Modules

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

VMware ThinApp Architecture

• Architecture that supports a virtualized application
• Relationships between the ThinApp runtime, the virtual file system, and the virtual registry

Packaging Applications

• Capturing and virtualizing an application

Modifying Package.ini Parameters

• Automate creation of virtual machines
• Change virtual machine settings programmatically
• Run vSphere PowerCLI scripts in virtual machines
• Automate virtual machine protection

Building Applications with Application Link

• Application Link features
• Application Link parameters in the Package.ini file

Deploying and Updating Applications

• EXE files versus MSI files for local application deployment
• Streaming applications from servers
• Using the versioning model to update applications
• Using Application Sync to update applications
• Performance and Troubleshooting
• Performance considerations
• Troubleshooting ThinApp packages

Design Best Practices Modules

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Design Methodology

• General design process
• Elements of a successful View solution
• A design process for View solutions

Use-Case Definition

• Identifying use cases and their characteristics
• Options for collecting performance data
• Pool and Desktop Design

Mapping use cases to View pools

• Design decisions for pool configurations
• Configuring and optimizing virtual desktops

VMware View Pod and Block Design

• Designing the access infrastructure
• Design decisions for remote display protocols
• Designing a load-balancer solution
• Designing the View infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure Design

• Mapping View infrastructure requirements to vSphere
• Sizing VMware ESX™/ESXi hosts for CPU and memory
• Sizing configuring VMware vCenter Server™ systems
• Sizing network capacity for PCoIP and RDP

Storage Design

• Designing the storage solution
• Sizing datastores based on capacity and performance metrics
• Deploying tiered storage for View Composer linked clones

End-User Session and Client Device Design

• Managing end-user personas and sessions
• Best practices for using Active Directory in a View environment
• Managing user profiles in a View environment
• Selecting client devices

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