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

Course Objectives

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

• Install and configure 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 and cryptographic authentication fobs
• Use View Composer to deploy and manage linked clone virtual desktops
• Package applications using ThinApp for a VMware virtual desktop infrastructure

Target Audience

System administrators and system integrators experienced with VMware vSphere™ 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 vSphere

Recommended

• Completion of VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage.

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.
• Configure Windows AD services.