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VMware View: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.0] On-Site Training

VMware View: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.0]

Course Description/Agenda

This hands-on training course builds your skills in the VMware® View™ suite of products: VMware View Manager, View Composer, and VMware ThinApp™. In this course based on the View 5.0 and ThinApp 4.6 releases, you will spend approximately 40% of your time performing 17 hands-on labs designed to reinforce classroom lectures.

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.

What You'll Learn

• Install and configure VMware 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

Who Should Attend

System administrators, system integrators, and others who are responsible for deploying the VMware virtual desktop infrastructure

Course Prerequisites

• Experience in Microsoft Windows Active Directory administration
• Experience with VMware vSphere™
• Completion of VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage is highly recommended

Course Outline

1. VMware View

• Features and components

2. VMware View Connection Server

• Installation and configuration

3. VMware View Desktops

• VMware View Agent
• PCoIP and RDP remote display protocols
• USB redirection and multimedia redirection

4. VMware View Client Options

• VMware View Client
• View Client with local mode
• Thin clients
• Virtual printing with view clients

5. VMware View Administrator

• Configuring the View environment
• Managing users, sessions, and policies
• Configuring and provisioning automated pools of desktops
• Role-based delegated administration
• Managing ThinApp applications within View
• Monitoring the View environment

6. Configuring and Managing Linked Clones

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

7. VMware View Persona Management

• Configuring user profiles
• Persona Management and Windows Roaming Profiles
• Configuring a Persona Management deployment
• Best practices for a Persona Management deployment

8. Local Mode Desktops

• Configuring local mode desktops
• View Transfer Server and Transfer Server repository
• Local mode operations

9. Managing VMware View Security

• Configuring the security server
• Network configuration and authentication options

10. VMware View Connection Server Performance and Scalability

• Replica connection servers
• Performance considerations and load balancing

11. Command-Line Tools and Backup Options

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

12. VMware ThinApp

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

Labs

Lab 1: Install and Configure the View Connection Server

• Add an ESXi host to the vCenter Server inventory
• Confirm setup of the virtual machine to be used as the connection server
• Install View Connection Server software
• License View Manager
• Associate a vCenter Server system with the View Connection Server
• Configure an event database

Lab 2: Install the View Agent in Desktops

• Create a vCenter Server resource pool for View desktop pools
• Prepare the Windows XP desktop
• Install the View Agent
• Establish a Remote Desktop Connection to the virtual desktop

Lab 3: Create and Entitle a View Desktop

• Clone a Windows XP virtual machine to a template
• Modify the customization specification that will be used to clone Windows XP desktops
• Deploy a second Windows XP desktop virtual machine from the template
• Confirm correct deployment of the virtual machine
• Create two manual pools with one desktop virtual machine each
• Entitle the manual pools

Lab 4: Install and Use the View Client

• Install the View Client
• Connect to a virtual desktop
• Clone a second client virtual machine

Lab 5: Configure and Use Virtual Printing

• Install and use a virtual printer
• Configure a virtual printer instance on the virtual desktop

Lab 6: Modify Global Settings and Manage Users and Sessions

• Modify three global settings values
• Limit vCenter Server provisioning operations
• Use View Administrator to disconnect a logged-in user and reset a virtual desktop
• Retrieve information about specific users
• Examine recent connection server events

Lab 7: Create and Use an Automated Pool

• Set up a vCenter Server folder for virtual desktops in a pool
• Create an automated pool with dedicated-assignment desktops
• Verify the creation of the pool by connecting to a desktop
• Test a second concurrent connection to a desktop in the pool
• Delete the automated pool

Lab 8: Role-Based Delegated Administration

• Create a View folder
• Move a pool into a new folder
• Modify permissions on a folder
• Verify permissions on a folder
• Use global permissions to allow a user or group limited access to the View environment
• Remove all administrator permissions

Lab 9: Install View Composer

• Prepare the vCenter Server system for View Composer
• Install View Composer on the vCenter Server system

Lab 10: Deploy Linked-Clone Desktops

• Take a baseline snapshot from the parent virtual machine
• Enable View Composer and authorize the View administrator for use by QuickPrep
• Create an automated pool of linked-clone desktops
• Test an individual linked-clone desktop

Lab 11: Modify Linked-Clone Desktops

• Install Foxit Reader on all linked-clone desktops

Lab 12: Manage Linked-Clone Persistent Disks

• Detach a View Composer persistent disk from a linked-clone desktop
• Attach the detached persistent disk to another linked-clone desktop as a secondary disk
• Verify that the secondary disk is the persis

   

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