VMware View: Desktop Fast Track

Special notes

• This HK990S course is a fast-paced offering with extended hours (10 hours/day - including on the last day)
• This course includes content from the following courses:
  • 1day HK320S Application Virtualization with VMware ThinApp

Course overview

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 applicationsoriented 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.

Prerequisites

• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage (HL235S) or equivalent experience with vSphere
• Use Application Link to dynamically link application components like Microsoft .NET to multiple applications

Audience

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

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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
• Describe the major components of the ThinApp architecture
• Modify Package.ini parameters to increase the variety and complexity of applications that can be virtualized
• Use Application Sync to update applications deployed from servers
• Troubleshoot problems with ThinApp packages
• Identify design goals, requirements, and constraints
• Identify information that is required for design decisions
• Recognize situations that benefit from best-practice recommendations
• Use the recommended design process
• Analyze design choices in the following areas:
• View Manager infrastructure
• View desktop options
• vSphere infrastructure
• Network infrastructure
• Client access devices
• End-user management
• Construct a comprehensive View solution

Course outline

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Module 2: Introduction to VMware View

• View features and components

Module 3: View Connection Server

• Installation and configuration

Module 4: View Desktops

• View Agent
• PCoIP and other remote display protocols
• USB redirection and multimedia redirection

Module 5: View Client Options

• View Client
• View Client with Local Mode
• Thin clients
• Virtual Printing

Module 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

Module 7: Configuring and Managing Linked Clones

• View Composer
• Deploying and provisioning linked-clone desktops
• Managing linked-clone desktops
• Managing persistent disks

Module 8: Local-Mode Desktops

• Local-mode desktops
• View Transfer Server and Transfer Server repository
• Local-mode operations

Module 9: Command-Line Tools and Backup Options

• vdmadmin utility
• Clients in kiosk mode
• Backing up the View databases
• Restoring the View databases

Module 10: Managing VMware View Security

• View security server
• Network configuration and authentication options

Module 11: View Manager Performance and Scalability

• Replica connection servers
• Performance considerations and load balancing

Module 12: VMware ThinApp

• Using ThinApp to capture applications
• Deploying and updating ThinApp packages
• Virtualizing Internet Explorer 6 for use on a Windows 7 system