VMware Horizon 8: Virtual Desktop BootCamp

VMware Horizon® 8: Virtual Desktop BootCamp is a five-day combination course of VMware Horizon 8: Skills for Virtual Desktop Management and VMware Horizon 8: Virtual Desktop Troubleshooting. This training combination gives you the skills to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single virtual desktop infrastructure platform.

You build 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 resolve common issues that occur in a VMware Horizon environment.

You engage in a series of lab exercises to bring existing environment issues to resolution. The exercises mirror real-world troubleshooting use cases. These exercises equip learners with the knowledge and practical skills to manage typical challenges faced by virtual desktop administrators and operators.

• Course Introduction
• Introduction to VMware Horizon
• Introduction to Use Case
• vSphere for Horizon 8
• VMware Horizon Desktops
• VMware Horizon Agents
• VMware Horizon Pools
• VMware Horizon Client Options
• Creating and Managing Instant-Clone Desktop Pools
• Creating RDS Desktop and Application Pools
• Monitoring VMware Horizon
• Overview of Virtual Desktop Troubleshooting
• Command-Line Tools and Backup Options
• Troubleshooting VMware Horizon Linked Clone Desktops
• Troubleshooting Instant Clones
• Windows Client
• Ports and Protocols

Operators, administrators, and architects responsible for the creation, maintenance, or delivery of remote and virtual desktop services.

Customers attending this course should have, at a minimum, the following VMware infrastructure skills:

• Use VMware vSphere® Web Client to view the state of virtual machines, datastores, and networks
• Open a virtual machine console on VMware vCenter Server® and access the guest operating system

Attendees should 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 Horizon 8: Skills for Virtual Desktop Management is the first half of a two-course requirement for the following certification:

• VMware Certified Professional – Desktop and Mobility 2020 (VCP-DTM 2020)

VMware Horizon 8: Virtual Desktop Troubleshooting does not satisfy a course requirement for the VCP-DTM exam.