VM-VDFT51: VMware View: Desktop Fast Track [V5.1]

This fast-paced, extended-hours training course includes the content of the following courses:

• VMware View: Install, Configure, Manage
• VMware View: Design Best Practices

This hands-on training course builds your skills in the VMware® View™ suite: VMware® View Manager™, VMware® View Composer™, and VMware® ThinApp®. The course provides 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 also presents a methodology for analyzing and designing a View solution for the VMware® vSphere® infrastructure.

The course is based on View 5.1 and ThinApp 4.6.

Course Outline 1

• Module 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 Remote Desktop Protocol remote display protocols
  • USB redirection and multimedia redirection


• 5 View Client Options
  • View Client
  • View Client with Local Mode
  • Thin clients and zero clients
  • Virtual Printing with View Clients


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


• 7 Configuring and Managing Linked Clones
  • View Composer operations
  • Deploying and provisioning linked-clone desktops
  • Managing linked-clone desktops
  • Managing persistent disks


• 8 Local Mode Desktops
  • Configuring local-mode desktops
  • View Transfer Server and the Transfer Server repository
  • Local-mode operations


• 9 Managing View Security
  • Network configuration and authentication options
  • Configuring the View security server


• 10 View Persona Management
  • Configuring user profiles with View Persona Management
  • View Persona Management and Windows roaming profiles
  • Configuring a View Persona Management deployment
  • Best practices for a View persona Management deployment


• 11 Command-Line Tools and Backup Options
  • The vdmadmin utility
  • Client systems in kiosk mode
  • Backing up the View databases
  • Restoring the View databases


• 12 View Connection Server Performance and Scalability
  • Replica connection servers
  • Performance considerations and load balancing


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

• Module 1 Course Introduction
  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives


• 2 Design Methodoloty
  • 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 Remote Display Protocols
  • Designing the access infrastructure
  • Comparing PCoIP and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) design considerations
  • Determining when to use PCoIP optimization controls
  • Configuring PCoIP tuning parameters for a use case


• 6 View Pod and Block Design
  • Designing the View infrastructure
  • Choosing an authentication solution
  • Designing a load-balancer solution


• 7 VMware Infrastructure Design
  • Mapping View infrastructure requirements to vSphere 5
  • Sizing VMware ESXi™ hosts for CPU and memory
  • Sizing VMware® vCenter Server™ systems
  • Sizing network capacity for PCoIP and RDP


• 8 Storage Design
  • Designing the storage solution
  • Sizing datastores based on capacity and performance metrics
  • Deploying tiered storage for View Composer linked clones


• 9 End-User Session and Client Device Design
  • Managing end-user personas and sessions
  • Best practices for using Active Directory in a View environment
  • Designing a View Persona Management solution
  • Selecting client devices