VMware Horizon: Skills For Virtual Desktop Management Certification Training

This course gives you the skills necessary to deliver virtual applications and desktops through a single virtual desktop infrastructure platform. Our VMware Horizon: Skills for Virtual Desktop is a 3-day course that builds your knowledge and skills in managing and configuring the VMware Horizon&r

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VMWARE HORIZON: SKILLS FOR VIRTUAL DESKTOP MANAGEMENT [V8] Course Description

The course, as its name suggests, enables you to learn and validate the skills for virtual desktop management. Learners will learn about the methods of deploying and configuring pools of virtual machines and also about providing a customized desktop environment to end-users.

The VMware Horizon: Skills for Virtual Desktop course is one of the two-course requirement for the VMware Certified Professional Desktop and Mobility 2020 (VCP-DTM 2020) certification.

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Audience

The VMware Horizon: Skills for Virtual Desktop Management is ideal for:

  • Individuals who are responsible for creating, maintaining, or delivery of virtual and remote desktop services
  • Administrators, operators, and architects for VMware Horizon

Eligibility Criteria

Learners willing to take this course must have the following VMware infrastructure skills:

  • View the state of datastores, virtual machines, and networks using the VMware vSphere® Web Client
  • Open a virtual machine console on VMware vCenter Server® and access the guest operating system

Apart from the above, the following Microsoft Windows system administration experience is also required:

  • Configure Active Directory services, including DNS, DHCP, and time synchronization
  • Restrict user activities by implementing Group Policy objects
  • Configure Windows systems to enable Remote Desktop Connections
  • Build an ODBC connection to an SQL Server database

Course Outline

Course Introduction

•  Introductions and course logistics
•  Course objectives

Introduction to VMware Horizon

•  Recognize the features and benefits of Horizon
•  Describe the conceptual and logical architecture of Horizon

 

Introduction to Use Case

•  Define a use case for your virtual desktop and application infrastructure
•  Convert customer requirements to use-case attributes

vSphere for Horizon 8

•  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

VMware Horizon Desktops

•  Create a Windows and a Linux virtual machine using vSphere
•  Optimize and prepare Windows and Linux virtual machines to set up Horizon desktop VMs

VMware Horizon Agents

•  Outline the configuration choices when installing Horizon Agent on Windows and Linux virtual machines
•  Create a gold master for Windows Horizon desktops

VMware Horizon Pools

•  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 floating-assignment pools
•  Outline the steps to create an automated pool
•  Define user entitlement
•  Explain the hierarchy of global, pool-level, and user-level policies
 

VMware Horizon Client Options

•  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

Creating and Managing Instant-Clone Desktop Pools

•  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

Creating RDS Desktop and Application 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

Monitoring VMware Horizon

•  Monitor the status of the Horizon components using the Horizon Administrator console dashboard
•  Monitor desktop sessions using the HelpDesk tool

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FAQ’s

What is the VMware Horizon virtual desktop?
 

VMware Horizon is a modern platform that runs and delivers virtual apps and desktops across the hybrid cloud. It allows simplification, automation, and security of desktop and app management while also providing a consistent experience to users across locations and devices.

What are the hardware requirements for VMware Horizon?

A Pentium IV 2.0GHz processor or higher processor with 4GBRAM and 100Mbps NIC network adapter is required for a Horizon server connection. These are the minimum system requirements. You will get to learn about more specific hardware prerequisites during the course.

Where is VMware Horizon used?

Horizon can be used for unified communications, device redirection, and access to desktops and applications. It provides an easy Single Sign-On access on any device, deploys virtual desktops to any location, and gives end-users the freedom to work anywhere.

How are the VMware Horizon and VMware vSphere different?

VMware Horizon is based on VMware vSphere and uses the vSphere environment for hosting virtual desktops.

Which is the latest version of Horizon?

VMware Horizon 7.10 (Sep 17, 2019) This is an ESB release.

Will I get exposure to practical hands-on labs in this course?

Yes, of course! We want our students to be trained well before entering their roles. So, we provide extensive hands-on labs in combination with theory-based lectures to foster learning.

What is the training price for this  VMware course?

This training costs $2,550.

Have more questions about this course?

Please write to us at enquiry@vinsys.com with your queries and we will respond at the earliest.

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