This hands-on training course builds your skills in installing, configuring, and managing the Horizon™ View™ component of VMware Horizon™. Students gain practical experience with these concepts through the completion of hands-on labs. View includes: VMware View® Manager™, VMware View® Composer™, and View security server. This course is based on the Horizon 6 release.
Before attending this course, you must be able to administer a vSphere 5 environment.
Introduction to Horizon and View
- Overview of Horizon 6
- Introduce View features and components
View Connection Server
- Install and configure View Connection Server
- Configure View events database and syslog server
View Desktops
- Prepare virtual machines as View desktops
- Compare PCoIP and RDP remote display protocols
- Explain USB redirection and multimedia redirection
- Install Horizon™ View Agent™ in a template
- Deploy a manual pool and entitle users to access it
Horizon Client Options
- Introduce Horizon Client for Windows and Mac OS X
- Describe HTML Access, thin clients, and zero clients
- Configure Virtual Printing with Horizon Client
Creating and Managing Automated Pools
- Configure and provision automated pools of desktops
- Compare dedicated and floating-assignment pools
- Compare storage options, including VMware® Virtual SAN™
Creating and Managing Linked-Clone Desktop Pools
- Overview of View Composer operations
- Deploy and provision linked-clone desktops
- Compare storage options, including Virtual SAN and tiered storage
- Manage linked-clone desktops
- Manage persistent disks
Creating and Managing RDS Desktop and Application Pools
- Set up RDS hosts to create a farm
- Deploy and provision RDS desktop pools
- Deploy and provision RDS application pools
- Mange application pools
Using View Administrator
- Configure the View environment
- Compare authentication options for desktop access
- Manage users, sessions, and policies
- Implement role-based delegated administration
- Monitor the View environment
Describe recommended network configurations and authentication options
- Configure the View security serverManaging View Security
Configure user profiles with View Persona Management
- Describe View Persona Management and Windows roaming profiles
- Configure a View Persona Management deployment
- Describe best practices for a View Persona Management deploymentView Persona Management
Command-Line Tools and Backup Options
- Introduce the vdmadmin utility
- Describe client systems in kiosk mode
- Back up the View databases
- Restore the View databases
View Performance and Scalability
- Describe multiserver deployments to create a pod
- Explain performance considerations and load balancing for a single pod
- Explain Cloud Pod Architecture for multiple View pod deployments
| EXAM CODE | TITLE |
| VCPD-610 | VMware VCP6 Desktop Certification Exam |
On completion of the VCPD-610 exam you will become a VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 5 (VCP6-Desktop)
Additional Support;
>Access to supplementary VMware e-learning content
>Out of class remote lab access
- VMware EUC Infrastructure Administrator
- VMware EUC Infrastructure Consultant
- Virtualisation EUC Specialist
- VCAP – Datacenter Administration
- VCAP – Datacenter Design
- Systems administration experience on Windows or Linux
- VMware vSphere certification preferred
Quarterly – Classroom Based
Cost – £1450 – £899 Limited to Enrolments before 20 Mar 2015 only.
8 weeks – Part Time (Evenings or Weekends)
This course will prepare you for the VCP6-Desktop Certification
