VMware View: Desktop Fast Track (VIEWFT)

• Solution architects
• System architects
• System administrators
• Application administrators
• IT managers

Completion of VMware View™: Install, Configure, Manage (Version 5.0) (VIEW) or equivalent experience with vSphere

At 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
• Modify Package.ini parameters to increase the variety and complexity of applications that can be virtualized
• Use Application Link to dynamically link application components like Microsoft .NET to multiple applications
• Use Application Sync to update applications deployed from servers
• 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 infrastructure
  • View desktop options
  • vSphere infrastructure
  • Network infrastructure
  • Client access devices
  • End-user management
  • Construct a comprehensive View solution

This fast-paced, extended-hour training course includes the content of the following courses:

• VMware View™: Install, Configure, Manage (Version 5.0) (VIEW)
• Application Virtualization Using VMware ThinApp (THIN)
• VMware View 5: Design Best Practices (VVD)

This hands-on training course builds your skills in the VMware View™ suite of products: VMware View Manager, VMware View Composer, and VMware® ThinApp™. It will provide applicationsoriented 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 will also present a methodology for analyzing and designing a View solution for the VMware vSphere™ infrastructure. The course is based on View 4.5 and ThinApp 4.5 and 4.6. It includes a prepaid voucher for the VMware Certified Associate 4 – Desktop examination.

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