VMware View: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.0] (3202)
This hands-on training course builds your skills in the VMware® View™ suite of products: VMware View Manager, View Composer, and VMware ThinApp™. In this course based on the View 5.0 and ThinApp 4.6 releases, you will spend approximately 40% of your time performing 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 VMware 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
Who Can Benefit
System administrators, system integrators, and others who are 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 highly recommended
Syllabus
1. VMware View
- Features and components
2. VMware View Connection Server
- Installation and configuration
3. VMware View Desktops
- VMware View Agent
- PCoIP and RDP remote display protocols
- USB redirection and multimedia redirection
4. VMware View Client Options
- VMware View Client
- View Client with local mode
- Thin clients
- Virtual printing with view clients
5. VMware 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
6. Configuring and Managing Linked Clones
- View Composer operations
- Deploying and provisioning linked-clone desktops
- Managing linked-clone desktops
- Managing persistent disks
7. VMware View Persona Management
- Configuring user profiles
- Persona Management and Windows Roaming Profiles
- Configuring a Persona Management deployment
- Best practices for a Persona Management deployment
8. Local Mode Desktops
- Configuring local mode desktops
- View Transfer Server and Transfer Server repository
- Local mode operations
9. Managing VMware View Security
- Configuring the security server
- Network configuration and authentication options
10. VMware View Connection Server Performance and Scalability
- Replica connection servers
- Performance considerations and load balancing
11. Command-Line Tools and Backup Options
- vdmadmin utility
- Clients systems in kiosk mode
- Backing up VMware View databases
- Restoring VMware View databases
12. VMware ThinApp
- Using ThinApp to capture applications
- Deploying and updating ThinApp packages
- Virtualizing Internet Explorer 6 for use on a Windows 7 system
