VMware View: Desktop Fast Track [V5.1]

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Location: Bangalore, India | Dubai, UAE

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Course Details

This fast-paced, extended-hours training course includes 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©. You will gain the knowledge and skills needed to virtualize Windows applications with ThinApp and to choose the best deployment and updating processes for your environment. You will also learn the 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. This course includes a voucher for the VMware Certified Professional 5 – Desktop exam.

Course Prerequisites

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent experience

Course Agenda

1. VMware View

  • View features and components

2. View Connection Server

  • Installation and configuration

3. View Desktops

  • View Agent
  • PC-over-IP (PCoIP) and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) remote display protocols
  • USB redirection and multimedia redirection

4. View Client Options

  • View Client
  • View Client with local mode
  • Thin clients and zero clients
  • Virtual printing with View Clients

5. 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

6. Configuring and Managing Linked Clones

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

7. Local Mode Desktops

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

8. Managing View Security

  • Network configuration and authentication options
  • Configuring the View security server

9. 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

10. Command Line Tools and Backup Options

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

11. View Connection Server Performance and Scalability

  • Replica connection servers
  • Performance considerations and load balancing

12. 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