VMware View Essentials Workshop

Special notes

This HG803s course is for HP Partners and HP Employees only.

Course overview

This 1-day course is designed to introduce the student to VMware View. Students will learn about the use cases, functionality, features and benefits of View Manager. The course is approximately 60% lecture and 40% labs.

Prerequisites

• VMware Infrastructure 3 - Install and Configure (HB513S)

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Course objectives

After this course, students should be able to:

• Describe the VMware View solution and its components
• Describe how customers use the VMware View solution
• Identify VMware View target customers and understand the correct sales messaging to use for prospective and existing customers
• Discuss how VMware View Manager and its components work
• Explain the main features of VMware View Manager and how they are used
• Install and configure VMware View Manager
• Log on and use the features of the VMware View Administrator Interface
• Perform administrative functions in View Connection Se4rver
• Connect to their desktops as an end-user
• Describe the ability to check out and check in their desktops using the Offline Desktop feature

Course outline

Introducing VMware View

• Overview of the VMware View solution
• Discussion of the target market
• Analyzes of how to handle objections from customers
• Presents some thoughts about qualifying customers
• Introduction to the VMware View components
• Key features

Installing and Configuring View Manager

• VMware View Manager
• VMware's enterprise-class virtual desktop management connection server
• Discusses installation and configuration of VMware View Manager and its components

Using VMware View Manager

• How to assign policies
• How to disable and delete View Manager objects
• How to recompose an Image Composer-based desktop pool
• End user task -- how end users connect to a virtual desktop using View Portal and the View Client
• End user task -- how they check in and check out a desktop that is Offline Desktop enabled

Labs

• Installation and configuration
• Creating user desktops
• Modifying user desktops