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VMware View: Desktop Fast Track [V4.5]

Class Overview & Benefits

Overview

Insyte's authorized VMware View: Desktop Fast Track v4.5 training and certification power class is offered in most cities nationwide including  Washington, DC, Boston, Chicago and San Francisco. This fast-paced, extended-hour training course includes the content of the following courses:

• VMware View: Install, Configure, Manage
• Application Virtualization with VMware ThinApp
• VMware View: Design Best Practices

This hands-on training course builds your skills in the VMware View™ suite of products: VMware View Manager, VMware View Composer, and VMware® ThinApp™. It will provide applications-oriented administrators with the knowledge and skills to virtualize Windows applications with ThinApp and to choose the best deployment and updating processes for their environment. The course will also present a methodology for analyzing and designing a View solution for the VMware vSphere™ infrastructure. The course is based on View 4.5 and ThinApp 4.5 and 4.6.

It includes a prepaid voucher for the VMware Certified Associate 4 – Desktop examination.

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, you should understand the features and operation of View, View design principles, and ThinApp operation. You should 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 and manage desktops that run in local mode
• Configure secure access to desktops through a public network
• Use ThinApp to package applications

Who Should Attend

• Solution architects
• System architects
• System administrators
• Application administrators
• IT managers

Prerequisites

Completion of VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent experience with vSphere     

Course Length

5 Days

Course Outline           

View: Install, Configure, Manage Modules

• 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 other remote display protocols
  • USB redirection and multimedia redirection
• 5  View Client Options
  • View Client
  • View Client with Local Mode
  • Thin clients
  • Virtual Printing
• 6  View Administrator
  • Configuring automated pools of dedicated and floating desktops
  • Role-based delegated administration
  • Managing ThinApp applications with View Manager
  • Monitoring the View deployment
• 7  Configuring and Managing Linked Clones
  • View Composer
  • Deploying and provisioning linked-clone desktops
  • Managing linked-clone desktops
  • Managing persistent disks
• 8  Local-Mode Desktops
  • Local-mode desktops
  • View Transfer Server and Transfer Server repository
  • Local-mode operations
• 9  Command-Line Tools and Backup Options
  • vdmadmin utility
  • Clients in kiosk mode
  • Backing up the View databases
  • Restoring the View databases
• 10  Managing VMware View Security
  • View security server
  • Network configuration and authentication options
• 11  View Manager 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

Application Virtualization with VMware ThinApp Modules

• 1  Course Introduction
  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives
• 2  VMware ThinApp Architecture
  • Architecture that supports a virtualized application
  • Relationships between the ThinApp runtime, the virtual file system, and the virtual registry
• 3  Packaging Applications
  • Capturing and virtualizing an application
• 4  Modifying Package.ini Parameters
  • Entry points, access control, and isolation parameters
  • The sandbox folder and the sbmerge.exe utility
• 5  Building Applications with Application Link
  • Application Link features
  • Application Link parameters in the Package.ini file
• 6  Deploying and Updating Applications
  • EXE files versus MSI files for local application deployment
  • Streaming applications from servers
  • Using the versioning model to update applications
  • Using Application Sync to update applications
• 7  Performance and Troubleshooting
  • Performance considerations
  • Troubleshooting ThinApp packages

View: Design Best Practices Modules

• 1  Course Introduction
  • Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives
• 2  Design Methodology
  • General design process
  • Elements of a successful View solution
  • A design process for View solutions
• 3  Use-Case Definition
  • Identifying use cases and their characteristics
  • Options for collecting performance data
• 4  Pool and Desktop Design
  • Mapping use cases to View pools
  • Design decisions for pool configurations
  • Configuring and optimizing virtual desktops
• 5  VMware View Pod and Block Design
  • Designing the access infrastructure
  • Design decisions for remote display protocols
  • Designing a load-balancer solution
  • Designing the View infrastructure
• 6  VMware Infrastructure Design
  • Mapping View infrastructure requirements to vSphere
  • Sizing VMware ESX™/ESXi hosts for CPU and memory
  • Sizing configuring VMware vCenter Server™ systems
  • Sizing network capacity for PCoIP and RDP
• 7  Storage Design
  • Designing the storage solution
  • Sizing datastores based on capacity and performance metrics
  • Deploying tiered storage for View Composer linked clones
• 8  End-User Session and Client Device Design
  • Managing end-user personas and sessions
  • Best practices for using Active Directory in a View environment
  • Managing user profiles in a View environment
  • Selecting client devices

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