VMware Training | VMware Course

This 4 days hands-on training course builds your skills in the VMware View™ suite of products: VMware® View Manager, View Composer, and VMware ThinApp™. This course is based on the View 5.1 and ThinApp 4.7 releases.

Who is this course for?

System administrators and system integrators responsible for deploying the VMware virtual desktop infrastructure

Pre-Requisites

Required

• Experience in Microsoft Windows Active Directory administration
• Experience with VMware vSphere™

Recommended

• Completion of VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, you should understand the features and operation of View and 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 user profiles with View Persona Management
• Configure and manage desktops that run in local mode
• Configure secure access to desktops through a public network
• Use ThinApp to package applications

Course Modules

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Introduction to VMware View

• View features and components

View Connection Server

• Installation and configuration

View Desktops

• View Agent
• PCoIP and RDP remote display protocols
• USB redirection and multimedia redirection

View Client Options

• View Client
• View Client with Local Mode
• Thin clients
• Virtual Printing with View Clients

View Administrator

• Configuring the View environment
• Managing users, sessions, and policies
• Configuring and provisioning automated pools of desktops
• Role-based delegated administration
• Managing ThinApp applications within View
• Monitoring the View environment

Configuring and Managing Linked Clones

• View Composer operations
• Deploying and provisioning linked-clone desktops
• Managing linked-clone desktops
• Managing persistent disks

View Personal Management

• Configuring user profiles with View Persona Management
• Persona Management and Windows Roaming Profiles
• Configuring a Persona Management deployment
• Best practices for a Persona Management deployment

Local-Mode Desktops

• Configuring local-mode desktops
• View Transfer Server and Transfer Server repository
• Local-mode operations

Managing View Security

• Configuring the View security server
• Network configuration and authentication options

View Connection Server Performance and Scalability

• Replica connection servers
• Performance considerations and load balancing

Command-Line Tools and Backup Options

• vdmadmin utility
• Clients systems in kiosk mode
• Backing up the View databases
• Restoring the View databases

VMware ThinApp

• Using ThinApp to capture applications
• Deploying and updating ThinApp packages
• Virtualizing Internet Explorer 6 for use on a Windows 7 system

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