VMware Horizon: Deploy and Manage V8.x

This five-day course gives you the hands-on skills to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single virtual desktop infrastructure platform. You build on your skills in configuring and managing VMware Horizon® 8 through a combination of lecture and hands-on labs. You learn how to configure and deploy pools of virtual machines and how to provide a customized desktop environment to end-users. Additionally, you learn how to install and configure a virtual desktop infrastructure platform. You learn how to install and configure VMware Horizon® Connection Server™, VMware Unified Access Gateway™, how to configure a load balancer for use with Horizon, and how to establish Cloud Pod Architecture.

• Course Introduction
• Introduction to VMware Horizon
• Introduction to Use Case
• vSphere for VMware Horizon
• Create Windows Desktops
• Create Linux Desktops
• Creating and Managing Desktop Pools
• VMware Horizon Client Options
• Creating and Managing Instant-Clone Desktop Pools
• Creating RDS Desktop and Application Pools
• Monitoring VMware Horizon
• Horizon Connection Server
• Horizon Protocols
• Graphics in Horizon
• Securing Connections: Network
• Securing Connections: Authentication
• Horizon Scalability
• Horizon Cloud and Universal Broker
• Workspace ONE Access and Virtual Application Management

Tier 1 Operators, administrators, and architects for VMware Horizon 

Before attending this course, you must have the following skills:
•    Use VMware vSphere® Web Client to view the state of virtual machines, datastores, and networks
•    Open a virtual machine console on VMware vCenter® and access the guest operating system 
•    Create snapshots of virtual machines
•    Configure guest customization specifications
•    Modify virtual machine properties
•    Convert a virtual machine to a template
•    Deploy a virtual machine from a template 

You must also have the following Microsoft Windows system administration experience:
•    Configure Active Directory services, including DNS, DHCP, and time synchronization
•    Restrict user activities by implementing Group Policy Objects
•    Configure Windows systems to enable Remote Desktop Connections
•    Build an ODBC connection to an SQL Server database

VMware Certified Professional – Desktop and Mobility (VCP-DTM).