VMware View: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.1] (3137)
In this hands-on course, based on VMware� View™5.1 and VMware ThinApp� 4.7, you will build your skills in the VMware View suite of products: VMware View Manager, View Composer, and VMware ThinApp.
You will spend approximately 40% of your time performing 18 hands-on labs designed to reinforce classroom lectures.
Before attending this course, you must be able to perform the following tasks:
- Create a template in VMware vCenter Server™ and deploy a virtual machine from the template
- Modify a template customization file
- Open a virtual machine console in vCenter Server and access the guest operating system
- Configure Active Directory services
Skills Gained
- 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 user profiles with View Persona Management
- Configure secure access to desktops through a public network
- Use ThinApp to package applications
Who Can Benefit
System administrators and integrators responsible for deploying the VMware virtual desktop infrastructure
Prerequisites
- Experience in Microsoft Windows Active Directory administration
- Experience with VMware vSphere
- Completion of VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage is recommended
Syllabus
1. VMware View
- View Features and Components
2. View Connection Server
- Installation and Configuration
3. View Desktops
- View Agent
- PCoIP and Remote Desktop Protocol
- Remote Display Protocols
- USB Redirection and Multimedia Redirection
4. View Client Options
- View Client
- View Client with Local Mode
- Thin Clients vs. Zero Clients
- Virtual Printing with View Client
5. View Administrator
- Configuring the View Environment
- Managing Users, Sessions, and Policies
- Configuring and Provisioning Automated Pools of Desktops
- Role-Based Delegated Administration
- Monitoring the View Environment
6. Configuring and Managing Linked Clones
- View Composer Operations
- Deploying and Provisioning Linked-Clone Desktops
- Managing Linked-Clone Desktops
- Managing Persistent Disks
7. Local-Mode Desktops
- Configuring Local-Mode Desktops
- View Transfer Server and the Transfer Server Repository
- Local-Mode Operations
8. Managing View Security
- Network Configuration and Authentication Options
- Configuring the View Security Server
9. View Persona Management
- Configuring User Profiles with View Persona Management
- View Persona Management and Windows Roaming Profiles
- Configuring a View Persona Management Deployment
- Best Practices for a View Persona Management Deployment
10. Command-Line Tools and Backup Options
- vdmadmin Utility
- Client Systems in Kiosk Mode
- Backing Up the View Databases
- Restoring the View Databases
11. View Connection Server Performance and Scalability
- Replica Connection Servers
- Performance Considerations and Load Balancing
12. VMware ThinApp
- Using ThinApp to Capture Applications
- Deploying and Updating ThinApp Packages
- Virtualizing Internet Explorer 6 for Use on a Windows 7 System
- Managing ThinApp Applications in View
