View: Install, Configure, Manage Modules
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Introduction to VMware View
- View features and components
View Connection Server
- Installation and configuration
View Desktops
- View Agent
- PCoIP and other remote display protocols
- USB redirection and multimedia redirection
View Client Options
- View Client
- View Client with Local Mode
- Thin clients
- Virtual Printing
View Administrator
- Configuring automated pools of dedicated and floating desktops
- Role-based delegated administration
- Managing ThinApp applications with View Manager
- Monitoring the View deployment
Configuring and Managing Linked Clones
- View Composer
- Deploying and provisioning linked-clone desktops
- Managing linked-clone desktops
- Managing persistent disks
Local-Mode Desktops
- Local-mode desktops
- View Transfer Server and Transfer Server repository
- Local-mode operations
Command-Line Tools and Backup Options
- vdmadmin utility
- Clients in kiosk mode
- Backing up the View databases
- Restoring the View databases
Managing VMware View Security
- View security server
- Network configuration and authentication options
View Manager Performance and Scalability
- Replica connection servers
- Performance considerations and load balancing
VMware ThinApp
- Using ThinApp to capture applications
- Deploying and updating ThinApp packages
- Virtualizing Internet Explorer 6 for use on a Windows 7 system
Application Virtualization with VMware ThinApp Modules
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
VMware ThinApp Architecture
- Architecture that supports a virtualized application
- Relationships between the ThinApp runtime, the virtual file system, and the virtual registry
Packaging Applications
- Capturing and virtualizing an application
Modifying Package.ini Parameters
- Entry points, access control, and isolation parameters
- The sandbox folder and the sbmerge.exe utility
Building Applications with Application Link
- Application Link features
- Application Link parameters in the Package.ini file
Deploying and Updating Applications
- EXE files versus MSI files for local application deployment
- Streaming applications from servers
- Using the versioning model to update applications
- Using Application Sync to update applications
Performance and Troubleshooting
- Performance considerations
- Troubleshooting ThinApp packages
View: Design Best Practices Modules
Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
Design Methodology
- General design process
- Elements of a successful View solution
- A design process for View solutions
Use-Case Definition
- Identifying use cases and their characteristics
- Options for collecting performance data
Pool and Desktop Design
- Mapping use cases to View pools
- Design decisions for pool configurations
- Configuring and optimizing virtual desktops
VMware View Pod and Block Design
- Designing the access infrastructure
- Design decisions for remote display protocols
- Designing a load-balancer solution
- Designing the View infrastructure
VMware Infrastructure Design
- Mapping View infrastructure requirements to vSphere
- Sizing VMware ESX™/ESXi hosts for CPU and memory
- Sizing configuring VMware vCenter Server™ systems
- Sizing network capacity for PCoIP and RDP
Storage Design
- Designing the storage solution
- Sizing datastores based on capacity and performance metrics
- Deploying tiered storage for View Composer linked clones
End-User Session and Client Device Design
- Managing end-user personas and sessions
- Best practices for using Active Directory in a View environment
- Managing user profiles in a View environment
- Selecting client devices