The Complete Vmware Horizon 7: Beginner To Advanced: 3-In-1

Design, architect, implement, and deploy your VDI with VMware Horizon 7

What you'll learn

Learn the latest features and architecture of VMware Horizon 7

Learn how to build and optimize desktop OS for VDI

Revolutionize the way you manage your desktop infrastructure, while delivering a superior user experience

Know how to streamline end user access and simplify authentication across all desktop and app services

Master effective deployment for your VMware Horizon View 7 infrastructure

Secure Horizon View with SSL Certificates and True SSO

Deliver remote applications and session-based desktops with Horizon View 7

Requirements

Basic knowledge of the networking concepts will be helpful.

Description

VMware Horizon 7 is a commercial desktop-virtualization product designed to manage and secure applications and virtual desktops and ensures the end-user can access it from anywhere and at any point of time. It is easy to have a fundamental knowledge of VMware Horizon 7 but it is way more challenging and difficult to implement and fine-tune it according to your business needs. This learning path overcomes this challenge and ensures you gain the basic to advanced practical knowledge required to manage and implement Horizon 7 efficiently in your organization.This comprehensive 3-in-1 course aims at providing you the best possible way to learn how to design, architect, implement, and deploy your virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) with VMware Horizon 7. It provides in-depth content balanced with tutorials that put theory into practice. The focus is on giving you both the understanding and practical examples that will allow you to master the art of creating desktop resources using VMware Horizon 7.This training program includes 3 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.The first course, Learning VMware Horizon 7, starts with an overview of the architecture and latest features of VMware Horizon 7. You will then learn how to design and deploy your Horizon 7 environment. Next, you will learn how to build two operating systems and optimize them for your VDI. Finally, you will walk through the different methods of delivery for the instant clone, linked clone, and full clone options.The second course, Advanced VDI with VMware Horizon 7, starts by demonstrating advanced installation and configuration, which will help you to customize Horizon 7 according to your business requirements. You will then delve into the features of Horizon 7 such as just-in-time delivery with instant clone; modernized life cycle management, which ensures faster application delivery; better user experience; smart policies, in order to improve security; and many more. This advanced-level course will teach you how to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single platform, multiple deployment scenarios, Horizon client and agent security, integration with third-party software, best practices, and troubleshooting techniques.The third course, Designing and Deploying VMware Horizon View 7, introduces you to the security aspects of Horizon View with SSL certificates and True SSO and shows you how these solutions can be implemented. You will then build a virtual desktop OS and several different desktops, ready for delivery to end users. You will also utilize the advantages afforded by the modern desktop and application delivery architecture of Horizon View and deliver only applications by publishing these to end users and delivering desktop sessions, rather than full desktops. With the help of these features, you will reduce the storage space required, and cut down on operational costs, by deploying truly stateless desktops. Towards the end of this course, you will investigate these features and configure Horizon View to deliver applications and desktop sessions to end users, thus ensuring painless application packaging and installation.By the end of this Learning Path, you will be well-equipped to create desktop resources by using Horizon desktop pools and fine-tune the end user experience to ensure the best optimization from your virtual desktops.Meet Your Expert(s):We have the best work of the following esteemed author(s) to ensure that your learning journey is smooth:Peter von Oven is an experienced technical consultant and has spent the past 20 years of his IT career working with customers and partners in designing technology solutions aimed at delivering true business value. During his career, Peter has been involved in numerous large-scale enterprise projects and deployments and has presented at key IT events such as VMworld, IP EXPO, and various VMUGs across the UK. He has also worked in senior pre sales roles and senior presales management roles for IT giants such as Fujitsu, HP, Citrix, and VMware and was awarded VMware vExpert for 2015 and 2016. Over the past 10 years and more, Peter has focused his skills and experience by specializing in the desktop and application virtualization market and today works for market-leading desktop transformation specialists, Liquidware Labs.

Overview

Section 1: Learning VMware Horizon 7

Lecture 1 The Course Overview

Lecture 2 Installation and Setup – Example Lab Overview

Lecture 3 Installing the VmwarevSphere Infrastructure

Lecture 4 Installing and Configuring Windows Server Components

Lecture 5 Configuring Active Directory Components

Lecture 6 Downloading the VMware Horizon Software

Lecture 7 What’s New in VMware Horizon View

Lecture 8 VMware Horizon 7 Editions and Licensing

Lecture 9 VMware Horizon 7 Architecture & Feature Overview

Lecture 10 How to Approach a VDI Project

Lecture 11 Desktop Assessments with Liquidware Labs Stratusphere

Lecture 12 Proving the Technology

Lecture 13 Designing & Deploying Vmware Horizon 7

Lecture 14 Installing and Configuring

Lecture 15 Post Installation Configurations Tasks

Lecture 16 Overview of the Horizon View Administrator Management Console

Lecture 17 Creating a Windows 7 Virtual Desktop Machine

Lecture 18 Optimizing the Windows 7 Gold Image for Horizon View

Lecture 19 Preparing the Virtual Desktop Machine for Delivery

Lecture 20 Creating a Windows 10 Virtual Desktop Machine

Lecture 21 Optimizing the Windows 10 Gold Image for Horizon View

Lecture 22 Preparing the Virtual Desktop Machine for Delivery

Lecture 23 Intro Desktop Pools and Build Windows 7, Full-Clone, Nonpersistent Desktop Pool

Lecture 24 Building a Windows 10, Full-Clone, Persistent Desktop Pool

Lecture 25 Entitling End Users to Desktop Pools

Lecture 26 Connecting to Your Desktop

Lecture 27 Fine Tuning the End User Experience

Lecture 28 Entitling End Users to Desktop Pools

Section 2: Advanced VDI with VMware Horizon 7

Lecture 29 Installation and Setup – Example Lab Overview

Lecture 30 Installing the Vmware vSphere Infrastructure

Lecture 31 Installing and Configuring Windows Server Components

Lecture 32 Configuring Active Directory Components

Lecture 33 Downloading the VMware Horizon Software

Lecture 34 Introducing VMware Horizon View 7

Lecture 35 VMware Horizon 7 Architecture and Feature Overview

Lecture 36 Desktop Cloning with Instant and Linked Clones

Lecture 37 Delivery Protocols and Hardware Accelerated Graphics

Lecture 38 Project Methodology – How to Approach a VDI Project

Lecture 39 Desktop Assessments with Liquidware Labs Stratusphere

Lecture 40 Proving the Technology

Lecture 41 Designing and Deploying Vmware Horizon 7

Lecture 42 Installing View Composer

Lecture 43 Installing the View Connection Server

Lecture 44 Initial Connection Server Configuration

Lecture 45 Installing the Replica Server

Lecture 46 Installing the Security Server

Lecture 47 Cloud Pod Architecture Introduction and Design Overview

Lecture 48 Initializing and Configuring Cloud Pod Architecture

Lecture 49 Deploying SSL Certificates

Lecture 50 Building a Windows 7 VDI Image

Lecture 51 Optimizing the Windows 7 Image for Horizon View

Lecture 52 Preparing the Virtual Desktop Machine for Delivery

Lecture 53 Building a Windows 10 Virtual Desktop Machine

Lecture 54 Optimizing the Windows 10 Image for Horizon View

Lecture 55 Preparing the Virtual Desktop Machine for Delivery

Lecture 56 What is a Desktop Pool?

Lecture 57 Creating an Instant Clone Desktop Pool

Lecture 58 Entitling End Users to the Instant Clone Desktop Pool

Lecture 59 The Instant Clone View in vCenter

Lecture 60 Creating a Linked Clone Desktop Pool

Lecture 61 Entitling End Users to the Linked Clone Desktop Pool

Lecture 62 The vCenter View of Linked Clone Desktops

Lecture 63 Creating a Full Clone Desktop Pool

Lecture 64 Entitling End Users to the Full Clone Desktop Pool

Lecture 65 Creating a Manual Desktop Pool

Lecture 66 Entitling End Users to the Full Clone Desktop Pool

Lecture 67 What is a Display Protocol?

Lecture 68 Display Protocol Options: PCoIP, Blast Extreme, and RDP

Lecture 69 Horizon Client Options

Lecture 70 Fine Tuning the End User Experience

Lecture 71 Managing and Monitoring the End User Experience

Lecture 72 Architecture and Sizing

Lecture 73 Installing and Configuring the RDSH Role

Lecture 74 Configuring Hosted Desktop Farms in the View Administrator

Lecture 75 Configuring Load Balancing for RDSH Desktops

Lecture 76 Architecture and Sizing

Lecture 77 Installing and Configuring RDSH for View Hosted Apps

Lecture 78 Configuring Horizon View Hosted App Farms

Lecture 79 Configuring Load Balancing for View Hosted Apps

Lecture 80 What is Application Layering?

Lecture 81 Capturing a FlexApp Application Layer

Lecture 82 Entitling Users to FlexApp Application Layers

Lecture 83 What is User Environment Management?

Lecture 84 View Persona Management

Lecture 85 An Overview of Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity

Section 3: Designing and Deploying VMware Horizon View 7

Lecture 86 The Course Overview

Lecture 87 What Is VDI?

Lecture 88 The Benefits of Deploying VDI

Lecture 89 A complete History of VMware and VDI

Lecture 90 What’s New in Horizon 7?

Lecture 91 The VMware Horizon 7 Product Editions

Lecture 92 Introducing the Core Horizon 7 Components

Lecture 93 High-Level Architectural Overview

Lecture 94 Persistent or Non-Persistent Desktops

Lecture 95 Horizon View Composer and Linked Clones

Lecture 96 Instant Clones

Lecture 97 View Persona Management

Lecture 98 VMware UEM

Lecture 99 Printing and Using USB Devices

Lecture 100 Virtualizing Applications with ThinApp

Lecture 101 Horizon Delivery Protocols – PCoIP, Blast Extreme, and RDP

Lecture 102 Hardware Accelerated Graphics

Lecture 103 Horizon Clients

Lecture 104 VMware App Volumes

Lecture 105 Phase I – Project Definition

Lecture 106 Phase II – Proving the Technology

Lecture 107 Phase III – Designing for Production

Lecture 108 Technology Choices – Example Scenarios

Lecture 109 Horizon View Pod and Block Architecture

Lecture 110 Horizon View Cloud Pod Architecture

Lecture 111 vSphere Design for Horizon View

Lecture 112 Horizon View Infrastructure Design Specifics

Lecture 113 Supporting Infrastructure Design

Lecture 114 Desktop Design Considerations

Lecture 115 Example Solution Scenario

Lecture 116 Introduction to the Example Lab Environment

Lecture 117 Installing vSphere Infrastructure

Lecture 118 Install and Configure Windows Servers/Desktops

Lecture 119 Configuring AD – Users and OU

Lecture 120 Downloading the Software

Lecture 121 Installing View Composer

Lecture 122 Installing the View Connection Server

Lecture 123 Initial Configuration of the View Connection Server

Lecture 124 Installing the View Replica Server

Lecture 125 Installing the View Security Server

Lecture 126 Installing the View Enrollment Server

Lecture 127 Configuring View for GPU-Enabled Virtual Desktops

Lecture 128 Configuring the Cloud Pod Architecture

Lecture 129 SSL Certificates for Horizon View

Lecture 130 Horizon View True SSO

Lecture 131 Virtual Desktop Build Process

Lecture 132 Creating a Windows 7 Virtual Desktop Machine

Lecture 133 Optimizing the Windows 7 Virtual Desktop Machine

Lecture 134 Preparing the Windows 7 Desktop for Delivery

Lecture 135 Creating a Windows 10 Virtual Desktop Machine

Lecture 136 Optimizing the Windows 10 Virtual Desktop Machine

Lecture 137 Preparing the Windows 10 Desktop for Delivery

Lecture 138 Creating a Windows 7 GPU-Enabled Virtual Desktop Machine

Lecture 139 Creating a Linux Virtual Desktop Machine

Lecture 140 Creating an Automated Windows 7 Full Clone Desktop Pool

Lecture 141 Creating an Automated Win7 Linked Clone Desktop Pool

Lecture 142 Creating a Windows 7 Manual Desktop Pool

Lecture 143 Creating an Automated Windows 10 Instant Clone Desktop Pool

Lecture 144 Entitling End Users

Lecture 145 Managing Desktop Pools

Lecture 146 Managing Persistent Disks

Lecture 147 Creating a GPU-Enabled Desktop Pool

Lecture 148 Connecting to a Horizon View Desktop

Lecture 149 Architectural Overview and Sizing

Lecture 150 Installing and Configuring Horizon App Publishing

Lecture 151 Configuring Published Apps in the View Administrator

Lecture 152 Advanced Load Balancing Published Apps in Horizon

Lecture 153 Architectural Overview and Sizing

Lecture 154 Installing and Configuring Horizon Published Desktops

Lecture 155 Configuring View to Deliver Published Desktops

Lecture 156 Advanced Load Balancing Published Desktops in Horizon

This learning path is for system administrators, architects, and anyone who wants to learn how to centrally manage and virtualize their desktops using VMware Horizon 7.