Training offering
VMware View 5: Install, Configure and Manage
Description
This 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 5.0 and ThinApp 4.6 releases.
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.
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
Participants
System administrators and system integrators responsible for deploying the VMware virtual desktop infrastructure.
Prerequisite(s)
Required
Experience in Microsoft Windows Active Directory administration
Experience with VMware vSphere™
Recommended
Completion of VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage
Programme
1 Course Introduction
• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
2 Introduction to VMware View
• View features and components
3 View Connection Server
• Installation and configuration
4 View Desktops
• View Agent
• PCoIP and Remote Desktop Protocol remote display protocols
• USB redirection and multimedia redirection
5 View Client Options
• View Client
• View Client with Local Mode
• Thin clients and zero clients
• Virtual Printing with View Clients
6 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
7 Configuring and Managing Linked Clones
• View Composer operations
• Deploying and provisioning linked-clone desktops
• Managing linked-clone desktops
• Managing persistent disks
8 Local-Mode Desktops
• Configuring local-mode desktops
• View Transfer Server and the Transfer Server repository
• Local-mode operations
9 Managing View Security
• Network configuration and authentication options
• Configuring the View security server
10 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
11 Command-Line Tools and Backup Options
• vdmadmin utility
• Clients systems in kiosk mode
• Backing up the View databases
• Restoring the View databases
12 View Connection Server Performance and Scalability
• Replica connection servers
• Performance considerations and load balancing
13 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
Options
Four days of instructor-led training with 60% lecture, 40% hands-on lab.
