Kurskode: OMHDM

varighet: 5 Dag(er)

Sted: Virtual, Instructor Led Training
Katergori: Omnissa

Course Overview

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 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 Horizon® Connection Server™ Unified Access Gateway™ how to configure a load balancer for use with Horizon, and how to establish Cloud Pod Architecture.

1 Course Introduction

  • • Introductions and course logistics
  • • Course objectives

2 Introduction to Horizon

  • • Recognize the features and benefits of Horizon
  • • Describe the conceptual and logical architecture of Horizon

3 vSphere for Horizon

  • • Explain basic virtualization concepts
  • • Use vSphere Client™ to access your vCenter Server system and ESXi hosts
  • • Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine

4 Create Windows Desktops

  • • Outline the steps to install Horizon Agent on Windows virtual machines
  • • Install Horizon Agent on a Windows virtual Machine
  • • Optimize and prepare Windows virtual machines to set up Horizon desktop VMs

5 Create Linux Desktops

  • • Create a Linux VM for Horizon
  • • Install Horizon Agent on a Linux virtual machine
  • • Optimize and prepare Linux virtual machines to set up Horizon desktop VMs

6 Creating and Managing Desktop Pools

  • • Identify the steps to set up a template for desktop pool deployment
  • • List the steps to add desktops to the Horizon® Connection Server™ inventory
  • • Compare dedicated-assignment and floating-assignment pools
  • • Outline the steps to create an automated pool
  • • Define user entitlement
  • • Explain the hierarchy of global, pool-level, and user-level policies

7 Horizon Client Options

  • • Describe the different clients and their benefits
  • • Access Horizon desktop using various Horizon clients and HTML
  • • Configure integrated printing, USB redirection, and the shared folders option
  • • Configure session collaboration and media optimization for Microsoft Teams

8 Creating and Managing Instant-Clone Desktops

  • • List the advantages of instant clones
  • • Explain the provisioning technology used for instant clone desktop pools
  • • Set up an automated pool of instant clones
  • • Push updated images to instant clone desktop pools

9 Creating RDS Desktop and Application Pools

  • • Explain the difference between an RDS desktop pool and an automated pool
  • • Compare and contrast an RDS session host pool, a farm, and an application pool
  • • Create an RDS desktop pool and an application pool
  • • Access RDS desktops and application from Horizon Client
  • • Use the instant clone technology to automate the build[1]out of RDSH farms
  • • Configure load-balancing for RDSHs on a farm

10 Monitoring Horizon

  • • Monitor the status of the Horizon components using the Horizon Administrator console dashboard
  • • Monitor desktop sessions using the HelpDesk tool
  • • Monitor the performance of the remote desktop using the Horizon Performance Tracker

11 Horizon Connection Server

  • • Recognize Horizon reference architecture
  • • Identify the Horizon Connection Server supported features
  • • Identify the recommended system requirements for Horizon Connection Server
  • • Configure Horizon event database
  • • Outline the steps for the initial configuration of Horizon Connection Server
  • • Discuss the AD LDS database as a critical component of Horizon Connection Server installation

12 Horizon Protocols

  • • Compare the remote display protocols that are available in Horizon
  • • Describe BLAST
  • • Summarize BLAST Codec options
  • • List ideal applications for each BLAST codec
  • • Describe BLAST and PCoIP ADMX GPO common configurations

13 Graphics in Horizon

  • • Describe the 3D rendering options available in Horizon 8
  • • Compare vSGA and vDGA
  • • List the steps to configure graphics cards for use in a Horizon environment

14 Securing Connections: Network

  • • Compare tunnels and direct connections for client access to desktops
  • • Discuss the benefits of using Unified Access Gateway
  • • List the Unified Access Gateway firewall rules
  • • Configure TLS certificates in Horizons

15 Securing Connections: Authentication

  • • Compare the authentication options that Horizon Connection Server supports
  • • Restrict access to the Horizon remote desktops using restricted entitlements
  • • Describe the smart card authentication methods that Horizon Connection Server supports
  • • Explain the purpose of permissions, roles, and privileges in Horizon
  • • Create custom roles

16 Horizon Scalability

  • • Describe the purpose of a replica connection server
  • • Explain how multiple Horizon Connection Server instances in a pod maintain synchronization
  • • List the steps to configure graphics cards for use in a Horizon environment
  • • Configure a load balancer for use in a Horizon environment
  • • Explain Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture LDAP replication and VIPA
  • • Explain Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture scalability options

17 Horizon Cloud and Universal Broker

  • • Recognize the features and benefits of Horizon Cloud Service
  • • Use Universal broker to connect to a Horizon Cloud instance
  • • Configure and pair the Horizon Cloud Connector appliance with Horizon Connection Server

18 Omnissa Access and Virtual Application Management

  • • Recognize the features and benefits of Workspace ONE Access
  • • Recognize the Workspace ONE Access console features
  • • Explain identity management in Workspace ONE Access
  • • Explain access management in Workspace ONE Access
  • • Describe the Workspace ONE Access directory integration
  • • Deploy virtual applications with Workspace services

By the end of this session, attendees should be able to:

  • • Recognize the features and benefits of Horizon
  • • Use vSphere to create VMs to be used as desktops for Horizon
  • • Create and optimize Windows VMs to create Horizon desktops
  • • Install and Configure Horizon Agent on a Horizon desktop
  • • Configure, manage, and entitle desktop pools of full VMs
  • • Configure and manage the Horizon Client systems and connect the client to a Horizon desktop
  • • Configure, manage, and entitle pools of instant-clone desktops
  • • Create and use Remote Desktop Services (RDS) desktops and application pools
  • • Monitor the Horizon environment using the Horizon Console Dashboard and Horizon Help Desk Tool
  • • Identify Horizon Connection Server installation, architecture, and requirements
  • • Describe the authentication and certificate options for the Horizon environment
  • • Recognize the integration process and benefits of Omnissa® Access™ and Horizon 8
  • • Compare the remote display protocols that are available in Horizon
  • • Describe the 3D rendering options available in Horizon 8
  • • Discuss scalability options available in Horizon 8
  • • Describe different security options for the Horizon environment.

 

Before attending this course, you must have the following skills:

  • • Use vSphere Web Client
  • • Create snapshots of virtual machines
  • • Configure guest customization specifications
  • • Modify virtual machine properties
  • • Convert a virtual machine to a template


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

- Tier 1 Operators, administrators, and architects, responsible for the creation, maintenance, and or delivery of remote and virtual desktop services

- Additional duties can include the implementation, support, and administration of an organization's end-user computing infrastructure.

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