VMware View

Completion of VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent experience with vSphere

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.

• By the end of the course, you should understand the features and operation of View, View design principles, and ThinApp operation. You should be able to do the following:
• Install and configure View components.
• Create and manage dedicated and floating desktop pools.
• Deploy and manage linked-clone virtual desktops.
• Configure and manage desktops that run in local mode.
• Configure secure access to desktops through a public network.
• Use ThinApp to package applications.
• Describe the major components of the ThinApp architecture.
• Troubleshoot problems with ThinApp packages.
• Identify design goals, requirements, and constraints.
• Identify information that is required for design decisions.
• Recognize situations that benefit from best-practice recommendations.
• Use the recommended design process.
• Analyze design choices in the following areas:
• View Manager infrastructureView desktop options
• vSphere infrastructure
• Network infrastructure
• Client access devices
• End-user management
• Construct a comprehensive View solution.

VMware View: Install, Configure, Manage Modules:

• Course Introduction
• Introduction to VMware View
• View Connection Server
• View Desktops
• View Client Options
• View Administrator
• Configuring and Managing Linked Clones
• Local Mode Desktops
• Managing View Security
• View Persona Management
• Command-Line Tools and Backup Options
• View Connection Server Performance and Scalability
• VMware ThinApp

VMware View: Design Best Practices Modules:

• Course Introduction
• Design Methodology
• Use-Case Definition
• Pool and Desktop Design
• View Pod and Block Design
• VMware Infrastructure Design
• Storage Design
• End-User Session and Client Device Design