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This hands-on training course builds your skills in the VMware® View™ suite of products: VMware View Manager, VMware View Composer, and VMware ThinApp™. In this course based on the VMware View 4.5 and ThinApp 4.6 releases, you will spend approximately 40% of your time performing 20 hands-on labs designed to reinforce classroom lectures.

Who should attend

System administrators and system integrators experienced with VMware Infrastructure who are responsible for their organization’s deployment of VMware technology for virtual desktop infrastructure.

Prerequisites

Required

    Experience in Microsoft Windows Active Directory (AD) administration
    Experience with VMware Infrastructure 3 or 4

Recommended

    Completion of VM-VIIC or VM-VICM

Basic Skills Self-Assessment
You must already have these skills:

    Create a template in VMware vCenter Server and deploy a virtual machine from it.
    Modify a template customization file.
    Open a virtual machine console on vCenter Server and access the guest operating system.
    Modify a virtual machine’s hardware (add disk, add NIC).
    Configure Windows AD roaming profiles.

Course Objectives

This hands-on training course builds your skills in the VMware View suite of products: VMware View Manager, VMware View Composer, and VMware ThinApp™.

At the end of the course, you should understand the features and operation of VMware View and be able to:

    Install and configure the VMware View components
    Create persistent and nonpersistent desktop pools
    Configure virtual desktops for printing, USB redirection, and multimedia redirection
    Configure authentication using devices such as smart cards or cryptographic authentication fobs
    Use VMware View Composer to deploy and manage linked clone virtual desktops
    Package applications using VMware ThinApp for a VMware virtual desktop infrastructure

Course Content

Module 1: Course Introduction Module 2: Introduction to VMware View

    VMware View features and components

Module 3: VMware View Connection Server

    Installation and configuration
    View Administrator

Module 4: VMware View Virtual Desktops

    VMware View Agent
    USB redirection and multimedia redirection

Module 5: VMware View Client Options

    VMware View Client
    VMware View Portal
    Thin clients and Offline Desktop

Module 6: View Administrator

    Configuring automated desktop pools
    Persistent and nonpersistent pools

Module 7: Configuring and Managing Linked Clones

    VMware View Composer configuration
    Deploying and modifying linked clone desktops

Module 8: Unified Access

    Accessing physical systems, blade PCs, Terminal Services

Module 9: Virtual Printing

    Seamless printing from desktop to client printers

Module 10: Managing View Security

    Network configuration and authentication options

Module 11: View Manager Performance and Scalability

    Performance enhancements and load balancing

Module 12: VMware ThinApp

    Deploying applications using VMware ThinApp