VMware Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage

Duration: 5 Days (40 Hours)

VMware Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage Course Overview:

Enroll in the comprehensive VMware Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage course to gain the skills and knowledge needed to effectively manage your Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment. This course provides in-depth instruction on deploying, configuring, and managing VDI solutions, ensuring cost-effective and secure virtual desktop environments.

Throughout the course, you will learn essential topics such as configuring and managing Virtual Machines, networking, storage, monitoring, and scaling. With hands-on training, you will develop the expertise to successfully deploy VMware Horizon with Citrix and Microsoft platforms, both on-premises and in the cloud.

Furthermore, this course emphasizes best practices for operating and maintaining secure virtual desktop environments, enabling you to ensure the highest levels of data protection and compliance. By the end of the course, you will be equipped with the necessary skills to efficiently manage your VDI environment, optimize resource utilization, and deliver a seamless virtual desktop experience to end-users.

Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your IT capabilities and gain the expertise required to deploy and manage VMware Horizon 8 effectively. Enroll today and take a significant step towards maximizing the potential of your virtual desktop infrastructure.

Target Audience

The primary target audience for VMware Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage training is IT professionals and administrators responsible for deploying, administering, and managing VMware Horizon 8 environments
It is helpful for system engineers, system administrators, DevOps engineers, cloud architects, and security engineers with prior experience with the VMware Horizon 8 platform and its technologies
The training outlines the concepts and best practices of deployment, as well as how to configure, manage, and troubleshoot the platform
It also covers advanced topics such as application and user management, automation, performance optimization, and security
With this training, IT professionals will gain knowledge on how to securely operate virtual desktops and applications at scale

Learning Objectives of VMware Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage

The objectives of VMware Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage Training are as follows:
1. Understand Horizon architecture and components.
2. Install and configure Horizon components.
3. Deploy application and desktop pools.
4. Configure roles and permissions.
5. Monitor and analyze performance.
6. Migrate existing workloads to Horizon environments.
7. Implement secure access with SSO, UEM, and other processes.
8. Troubleshoot and resolve errors in Horizon environments.

 Module 1: Course Introduction
  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives
  • Recognize the features and benefits of Horizon
  • Describe the conceptual and logical architecture of Horizon
  • Define a use case for your virtual desktop and application infrastructure
  • Convert customer requirements to use-case attributes
  • Explain basic virtualization concepts
  • Use VMware vSphere® Client™ to access your vCenter Server system and VMware ESXi™ hosts
  • Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine
  • Create a Windows and a Linux virtual machine using vSphere
  • Optimize and prepare Windows and Linux virtual machines to set up Horizon desktop VMs
  • Outline the configuration choices when installing Horizon Agent on Windows and Linux virtual machines
  • Create a gold master for Windows Horizon desktops
  • Identify the steps to set up a template for desktop pool deployment
  • List the steps to add desktops to the VMware Horizon® Connection Server™ inventory
  • Compare dedicated-assignment and floatingassignment pools
  • Outline the steps to create an automated pool
  • Define user entitlement
  • Explain the hierarchy of global, pool-level, and userlevel policies
  • Describe the different clients and their benefits
  • Access Horizon desktop using various Horizon clients and HTML
  • Configure integrated printing, USB redirection, and the shared folders option
  • Configure session collaboration and media optimization for Microsoft Teams
  • List the advantages of instant clones
  • Explain the provisioning technology used for instant clone desktop pools
  • Set up an automated pool of instant clones
  • Push updated images to instant clone desktop pools
  • Explain the difference between an RDS desktop pool and an automated pool
  • Compare and contrast an RDS session host pool, a farm, and an application pool
  • Create an RDS desktop pool and an application pool
  • Access RDS desktops and application from Horizon Client
  • Use the instant clone technology to automate the build-out of RDSH farms
  • Configure load-balancing for RDSHs on a farm
  • Monitor the status of the Horizon components using the Horizon Administrator console dashboard
  • Monitor desktop sessions using the HelpDesk tool
  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives
  • Recognize VMware Horizon reference architecture
  • dentify the Horizon Connection Server supported features
  • Identify the recommended system requirements for Horizon Connection Serve
  • Configure the Horizon event database
  • Outline the steps for the initial configuration of Horizon Connection Server
  • Discuss the ADAM database as a critical component of Horizon Connection Server installation
  • Compare the authentication options that Horizon Connection Server supports
  • Describe the Smartcard authentication options that Horizon Connection Server supports
  • Outline the steps to create a Horizon administrator and custom roles
  • Describe the roles available in a Horizon environment
  • Explain the role that certificates play for Horizon Connection Server
  • Install and configure certificates for Horizon Connection Server
  • Install and configure True SSO in a Horizon environment
  • Recognize the features and benefits of Workspace ONE Access
  • Recognize the Workspace ONE Access console features
  • Explain identity management in Workspace ONE Access
  • Explain access management in Workspace ONE Access
  • Describe the Workspace ONE Access directory integration
  • Describe the Workspace ONE Access directory integration
  • Deploy virtual applications with Workspace services
  • Describe the purpose of a replica connection server
  • Explain how multiple Horizon Connection Server instances in a pod maintain synchronization
  • Describe the 3D rendering options available in Horizon 8
  • List the steps to configure graphics cards for use in a Horizon environment
  • Configure a load balancer for use in a Horizon environment
  • Explain Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture LDAP replication and VIPA
  • Explain Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture scalability options
  • Explain concepts relevant to secure Horizon connections
  • Describe how to restrict Horizon connections.
  • Discuss the benefits of using Unified Access Gateway
  • List the two-factor authentication options that are supported by Unified Access Gateway
  • List Unified Access Gateway firewall rules
  • Describe the situation in which you might deploy Unified Access Gateway instances with one, two, or three network interfaces

Neither professional experience nor prior VMware certification is necessary in order to enroll in the VMware Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage Training course. However, prior knowledge or experience of the following subjects and concepts is recommended:
• VMware vSphere 6.x and 7.x deployment
• Virtual machine components
• Installation and configuration of virtual machines
• Networking concepts such as IP addressing and subnetting
• High-level overview of the components of the VMware Horizon suite (e.g. VMware View)
• Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) concepts and use cases
• Client-server application architectures
• Understanding of remote desktop protocol (RDP) and secure shell (SSH) technologies
• Working knowledge of operating systems such as Linux, Windows, or Mac OS

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  • Practice Labs.
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  • Access to the recordings of your class sessions for 90 days.
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  • Experience 24*7 learner support.

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