Course Overview

This two-day course builds your skills in resolving common issues that occur in a VMware Horizon® environment. Students will engage in a series of lab exercises to bring existing environment issues to resolution. The exercises mirror real-world troubleshooting use cases. These exercises equip learners with the knowledge and practical skills to manage typical challenges faced by virtual desktop administrators and operators.  

Product Alignment: VMware Horizon 8 2006

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

  • Implement a structured approach to troubleshooting
  • Resolve common issues that occur in a Horizon environment
  • Troubleshooting issues with linked and instant clones
  • Optimize protocols for best end-user experience

Course Content

1  Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  •  Course objectives

2  Overview of Virtualization Desktop Troubleshooting

  • Structured approach to troubleshoot configuration and operational problems
  • Applying troubleshooting methods
  • Documenting the steps to resolving the problem

3  Command-Line Tools and Backup Options

  • Command-line tools
  • Backing-up and restoring VMware Horizon databases

4  Troubleshooting Horizon Linked Clone Desktops

  • Horizon linked clone desktops

5  Troubleshooting Instant Clones

  • Troubleshooting instant clones

6  Windows Client

  • Windows client

7  Ports and Protocols

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  • Key ports and protocols
  • Optimize Blast
  • Black Screen
  • Applying GPO’s

Course Overview

VMware Horizon® 8: Virtual Desktop Bootcamp is a five-day combination course of VMware Horizon 8: Skills for Virtual Desktop Management and VMware Horizon 8: Virtual Desktop Troubleshooting. This training combination gives you the skills to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single virtual desktop infrastructure platform.

You build skills in configuring and managing VMware 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 resolve common issues that occur in a VMware Horizon environment.

You engage in a series of lab exercises to bring existing environment issues to resolution. The exercises mirror real-world troubleshooting use cases. These exercises equip learners with the knowledge and practical skills to manage typical challenges faced by virtual desktop administrators and operators. 

Product Alignment: VMware Horizon 8 v2006

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

  • Recognize the features and benefits of Horizon
  • Use VMware 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 Horizon desktop
  • Configure and manage the VMware Horizon® Client™ systems and connect the client to a VMware Horizon desktop
  • Configure, manage, and entitle desktop pools of full VMs
  • 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 Horizon Console Dashboard and Horizon Help Desk Tool
  • Implement a structured approach to troubleshooting
  • Resolve common issues that occur in a Horizon environment
  • Troubleshoot issues with linked and instant clones
  • Configure the Windows client
  • Identify the correct log level for gathering logs
  • Optimize protocols for the best end-user experience

Course Content

1  Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

2  Introduction to VMware Horizon

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

3  Introduction to Use Case

  • Define a use case for your virtual desktop and application infrastructure
  • Convert customer requirements to use-case attributes

4  vSphere for Horizon 8

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

5  VMware Horizon Desktops

  • Create a Windows and a Linux virtual machine using vSphere
  • Optimize and prepare Windows and Linux virtual machines to set up VMware Horizon desktop VMs

6  VMware Horizon Agents

  • Outline the configuration choices when installing Horizon Agent on Windows and Linux virtual machines
  • Create a gold master for Windows Horizon desktops

7  VMware Horizon Pools

  • Identify the steps to set up a template for desktop pool deployment
  • List the steps to add desktops to the VMware 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

8  VMware 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

9  Creating and Managing Instant-Clone Desktop Pools

  • 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

10  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-out of RDSH farms
  • Configure load-balancing for RDSHs on a farm

11  Monitoring VMware Horizon

  • Monitor the status of the VMware Horizon components using the Horizon Administrator console dashboard
  • Monitor desktop sessions using the HelpDesk tool

12  Overview of Virtual Desktop Troubleshooting

  • Structured approach to troubleshooting configuration and operational problems
  • Applying troubleshooting methods
  • Documenting the steps to resolve the problem

13  Command-Line Tools and Backup Options

  • Command-line tools
  • Backing-up and restoring VMware Horizon databases

14  Troubleshooting VMware Horizon Linked Clone Desktops

  • VMware Horizon linked clone desktops
  • View Agent Direct-Connection
  • Optimizing a VMware Horizon desktop

15  Troubleshooting Instant Clones

  • Logs for instant clones
  • Keyword strategies
  • Troubleshoot instant clones

16  Windows Client

  • Configure the Windows client
  • Enable the required SSL configuration

17  Ports and Protocols

  • Key ports and protocols
  • Optimize Blast
  • Black Screen
  • Applying GPO’s

Course Overview

This five-day course builds your skills in resolving common issues that occur in a VMware Horizon® environment. You engage in a series of lab exercises to bring existing environment issues to resolution. The exercises mirror real-world troubleshooting use cases. These exercises equip learners with the knowledge and practical skills to manage typical challenges faced by virtual desktop administrators and operators and provides you with the advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to troubleshoot VMware Horizon® 8 infrastructure related issues. This workshop teaches the required skill and competence for troubleshooting VMware Horizon® Connection Server™, VMware Unified Access Gateway™, protocols, connections, and certificates.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

  • Implement a structured approach to troubleshooting
  • Resolve common issues that occur in a VMware Horizon environment
  • Troubleshoot issues with linked and instant clones
  • Configure the Windows client
  • Identify the correct log level for gathering logs
  • Optimize protocols for best end-user experience
  • Discuss Horizon Connection Server advanced configurations
  • List troubleshooting techniques for Horizon Connection Server common issues
  • Interpret Horizon 8 Connection Server logs
  • Identify Unified Access Gateway configuration and certificate issues
  • List troubleshooting steps for Unified Access Gateway common issues
  • Describe BLAST configuration verification using logs and settings
  • Describe BLAST optimization recommendations for different use cases
  • Describe Horizon 8 Connections and how to troubleshoot related issues
  • Describe Horizon 8 certificates
  • List troubleshooting steps for common issues with Horizon 8 certificates
  • Leverage Horizon infrastructure troubleshooting steps to resolve issues

Course Content

1 Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

2 Overview of Virtual Desktop Troubleshooting

  • Structured approach to troubleshooting configuration and operational problems
  • Applying troubleshooting methods
  • Documenting the steps to resolving the problem

3 Command-Line Tools and Backup Options

  • Using command-line tools
  • Backing-up and restoring VMware Horizon databases

4 Troubleshooting Horizon Linked Clone Desktops

  • Only applicable for Horizon 7.x environments
  • Describe the components that make up a VMware Horizon desktop
  • Explain how the View Agent Direct-Connection plug-In is useful for diagnosing problems
  • Highlight the best practice for optimizing a VMware Horizon desktop
  • Troubleshoot common problems with VMware Horizon desktops

5 Troubleshooting Instant Clones

  • Discuss how instant clones are created
  • Discuss what gets logged when an instant clone is created
  • Discuss the keywords to look for in the logs when troubleshooting instant clones
  • Discuss how to troubleshoot problems with instant clones

6 Windows Client

  • Correctly configure the Windows Client
  • Identify the correct log level for gathering logs
  • Enable the required SSL configuration level for the environment

7 Ports and Protocols

  • Discuss the key ports on a Horizon Environment
  • Discuss protocols used in the Horizon Environment
  • Understand the benefit of optimizing Blast
  • Become familiar with the optimization features for Blast
  • Implement GPO changes for Blast
  • Become familiar with the causes for Black Screens
  • Discuss how to troubleshoot Black Screen problems
  • Identify problems encountered when applying GPOs
  • Discuss how to troubleshoot GPO-related problems

8 Horizon Connection Server Troubleshooting

  • Discuss Horizon Connection Server general troubleshooting techniques
  • Identity Horizon Connection Server common issues through logs
  • Describe AD LDS replication
  • Discuss Horizon Connection Server replication common issues
  • Review and Interpret Horizon Connection Server logs
  • Compare successful and unsuccessful logs from everyday infrastructure administration tasks

9 Unified Access Gateway Troubleshooting

  • List and identify common Unified Access Gateway deployment issues
  • Monitor the Unified Access Gateway deployment to identify health and issues
  • Identify and troubleshoot Unified Access Gateway certificate issues
  • Monitor, test, and troubleshoot network problems
  • Discuss general Unified Access Gateway troubleshooting processes

10 BLAST Configuration Verification

  • Discuss BLAST Codecs and Encoder Switch settings.
  • Describe how to verify BLAST configuration using logs and settings

11 BLAST Optimization

  • List general BLAST optimization recommendations
  • Summarize BLAST tuning recommendations that apply to WAN connections
  • Summarize BLAST tuning recommendations that apply to work-from-home and home-office-to-cloud use cases
  • Describe recommended tuning options to increase display protocol quality for all use cases and applications.

12 VMware Horizon Connections Troubleshooting

  • Explain Horizon connections
  • Describe the role of Primary and Secondary protocols in Horizon connections
  • Describe HTML client access connections
  • Describe Horizon connections load balancing
  • Describe timeout settings, supported health monitoring string, and suitable load balancer persistence values
  • Identify troubleshooting steps for failing Horizon load balancer connections
  • List troubleshooting steps for Horizon connections

13 VMware Horizon Certificates Troubleshooting

  • List Horizon certificate functions
  • Describe Horizon certificates scenarios.
  • Discuss potential challenges related to certificates in Horizon
  • Describe the troubleshooting approach to Horizon certificate issues

14 VMware Horizon Challenge Lab

  • Leverage Horizon infrastructure troubleshooting steps to resolve issues

Course Overview

This five-day course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve competence in deploying, managing, and operating VMware® Cloud Foundation™. You will learn about the architecture of VMware Cloud Foundation, storage and network management, licensing, and certificates. In addition to workload domains, availability, life cycle management, and troubleshooting, the course also covers VMware® Aria Suite™ integration and VMware® Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA architecture and components.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

  • Plan a deployment for VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Describe VMware Cloud Foundation components and supporting architecture
  • Explain the VMware Cloud Foundation licensing model
  • Perform day 0 tasks
  • Perform VMware Cloud Foundation platform onboarding
  • Manage user credentials in VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Configure VMware NSX® networking in VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Deploy and manage workload domains
  • Understand and implement storage solutions and related policies
  • Perform maintenance tasks for the VMware Cloud Foundation platform
  • Manage certificates for VMware Cloud Foundation and connected technologies
  • Manage the life cycle for VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Deploy and manage VMware Aria Suite on VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Understand the Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA architecture and components
  • Engage with VMware Cloud Foundation Technical Support services

Course Content

1 Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

2 VMware Cloud Foundation Overview

  • Describe the VMware Cloud Foundation solution
  • Describe VMware Cloud Foundation components and architecture
  • Describe vSphere and VMware Cloud Foundation licensing options

3 Day Zero Tasks

  • Describe the process for planning and preparing a VMware Cloud Foundation design
  • Identify the information required for the Planning and Preparation Workbook
  • Describe the fully automated deployment process of VMware SDDC components

4 Post-Deployment Operations

  • Use the VMware Cloud Foundation onboarding wizard to complete preliminary SDDC Manager setup tasks.
  • Configure user access to VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Manage passwords in VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Describe password management with SDDC Manager APIs

5 VMware Cloud Foundation Networking with NSX

  • Describe NSX management and control planes
  • Explain virtual IP addressing
  • Describe logical switching
  • Identify NSX Edge functions
  • Describe NSX deployment in VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Explain how logical routing works in NSX
  • Identify NSX Edge functions
  • Recognize Tier-0 and Tier-1 gateway topologies
  • Describe the spine-and-leaf design
  • Describe the multi-NIC design
  • Describe NSX Edge node design
  • Discuss BGP and OSPF peering with the physical network
  • Describe cluster design and rack design
  • Define application virtual networks
  • Recognize management domain rack options
  • Recognize NSX Edge cluster placement considerations
  • Use SDDC Manager to deploy an application virtual network

6 Managing Workload Domains

  • Define the concept of workload domain
  • Identify use cases for multiple clusters in a workload domain
  • Describe the SSO domain architecture
  • Define the concept of a network pool
  • Explain how to create, edit, and delete a network pool
  • Use SDDC Manager to commission hosts
  • Describe workload domain design considerations
  • Describe ESXi design considerations for a VI workload domain
  • Describe vSphere design considerations for a VI workload domain
  • Describe software-defined networking design considerations for a VI workload domain
  • Describe shared storage design considerations for a VI workload domain
  • Describe how to make workload domain design decisions
  • Expand the workload domain
  • Perform simultaneous cluster operations

7 VMware Cloud Foundation Storage Management

  • Describe storage options in VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Recognize vSAN design considerations
  • Identify sizing and performance considerations that impact the storage design
  • Recognize vSAN design principles
  • Identify components in the vSAN architecture
  • Recognize vSAN requirements for the management domain and workload domains
  • Define the concepts of deduplication and compression
  • Describe how to scale vSAN clusters in VMware Cloud Foundation

8 Availability and Business Continuity

  • Explain the importance of external service availability
  • Identify the steps in the SDDC Manager backup and restore process
  • Identify the steps in the NSX backup and restore process
  • Describe native vSphere availability options
  • Describe the stretched cluster architecture and use cases
  • List the stretched cluster requirements in VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Describe the stretched cluster architecture and use cases
  • List the stretched cluster requirements in VMware Cloud Foundation

9 VMware Cloud Foundation Certificate Management

  • Describe public key infrastructure (PKI)
  • Explain the purpose of certificate signing requests (CSRs)
  • List the available certificate authority (CA) options in SDDC Manager
  • Manage certificates in VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Integrate SDDC Manager with Microsoft CA and OpenSSL CA
  • Install certificates issued by Microsoft CA, OpenSSL CA, or third-party CAs

10 VMware Cloud Foundation Life Cycle Management

  • Describe life cycle management in VMware Cloud Foundation and the software components it supports
  • Describe the role of vSphere Lifecycle Manager and ESXi host images in VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Describe the role of NSX Upgrade Coordinator in VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Describe VMware® Aria Suite Lifecycle™ and its supported products
  • Describe the types of bundles and download options available in VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Configure SDDC Manager to download VCF online bundles
  • Configure a proxy server to download VCF bundles
  • Download VMware Cloud Foundation bundles using the Bundle Transfer utility
  • Explain the workflow for using vSphere Lifecycle Manager Images in VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Create a vSphere Lifecycle Manager image
  • Make a vSphere Lifecycle Manager image available in VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Configure custom ESXi ISO images and perform firmware upgrades using vSphere Lifecycle Manager
  • Explain the upgrade considerations for VMware Cloud Foundation components
  • Outline the upgrade precheck process
  • Monitor VMware Cloud Foundation updates
  • Use the Async Patch Tool to apply patches between BOM releases

11 VMware Aria Suite on VMware Cloud Foundation

  • Describe the VMware Aria Suite architecture running on VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Explain the networking prerequisites for deploying VMware Aria Suite on VMware Cloud Foundation
  • Describe the steps to install and configure VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle and VMware Workspace ONE®
  • Explain the common operational tasks in VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
  • Identify the VMware validated solutions for VMware Aria Suite products
  • Describe how to use VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle to deploy and manage VMware Aria Suite products

12 VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA

  • Describe the Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA solution
  • Describe the Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA architecture
  • Identify Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA components
  • Describe VMware Cloud Foundation use cases for machine learning

13 VMware Cloud Foundation Troubleshooting

  • Use the Support and Serviceability (SoS) command line tool to create log bundles, perform health checks, and check password validity
  • List the VMware Cloud Foundation services
  • Identify the VMware Cloud Foundation log files
  • Use token IDs to troubleshoot failed workflows

Course Overview

In this five-day course, you focus on installing, configuring, and managing on-premises VMware Cloud Director 10.6. You will learn how to set up and manage VMware Cloud Director, including the provisioning of workloads, creating organizations and Virtual Data Centers (VDCs), and use catalog services that include predefined virtual machines. You will learn about different networks that a system administrator and an organization administrator can configure and use with virtual machines and vApps.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

  • Describe the architecture and main components of VMware Cloud Director
  • Explain the features and benefits of VMware Cloud Director
  • Deploy high availability VMware Cloud Director cluster
  • Create VMware Cloud Director provider virtual data centers and organizations
  • Configure and create vApps and VMs
  • Create users and role-based access control
  • Create and manage VMware Cloud Director catalogs
  • Create and manage VMware Cloud Director networks
  • Create VM sizing and placement policies
  • Discuss additional features of VMware Cloud Director

Course Content

1 Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

2 VMware Cloud Director Deployment and Configuration

  • Describe VMware Cloud Director features and functions
  • Describe the VMware Cloud Director architecture
  • List the prerequisites for deploying VMware Cloud Director
  • Recognize the design considerations when creating a cloud environment
  • Describe various VMware Cloud Director deployment methods and options
  • Explain the two-stage deployment of VMware Cloud Director cells
  • Back up and restore a VMware Cloud Director appliance
  • Describe the appliance failover methods
  • Describe failover, switchover, and promote in the VMware Cloud Director appliance
  • Monitor the VMware Cloud Director appliance services and cluster status

3 VMware Cloud Director Provider Configuration

  • Describe the provider portal
  • Define a provider VDC, an organization, and organization VDCs
  • Configure VMware Cloud Director objects from the VMware Cloud Director provider portal as a system administrator
  • Describe provider VDCs and their role in resource allocation
  • Explain the configuration of resource pools and storage containers in a provider VDC
  • Configure organizations and access the tenant portal
  • Identify allocation models for organization VDCs
  • Recognize the advantages and disadvantages of allocation models
  • Describe how organization VDCs work

4 VMware Cloud Director User, Roles, and Quota Management

  • Configure LDAP integration with Active Directory
  • Enable a SAML and an OIDC identity provider
  • Identify the various types of users in VMware Cloud Director
  • Create and import users from the provider portal and the tenant portal
  • Describe the options for managing users and groups
  • Describe how role-based access control works in VMware Cloud Director
  • Explain provider roles
  • Recognize the function of the rights bundles
  • Explain global roles and their usage in VMware Cloud Director
  • Create custom tenant roles
  • Explain Quota Management and its use cases
  • Configure VMware Cloud Director as an OpenID Provider Proxy Server

5 VMware Cloud Director Virtual Machines and vApps

  • Explain standalone VMs and VMs in a vApp
  • Describe VM actions
  • List the properties of a VM
  • Create and manage VMs
  • Explain vApp deployment methods
  • Explain vApp actions and functions
  • Describe VM encryption and how VMs and disks are encrypted
  • Describe named disks and shared named disks
  • Create multiple snapshots for vApps and VMs
  • Describe Auto Scale Groups and their advantages
  • Explain VM placement, VM sizing, and vGPU policies
  • Describe NVIDIA vGPU and NVIDIA AI Enterprise
  • Explain the NVIDIA GRID vGPU requirements
  • Implement vGPU in VMware Cloud Director

6 Managing Catalogs and Templates

  • Describe Content Hubb and their advantages
  • Create and manage VMware Marketplace Resource
  • Create and manage External Helm Chart Repository Resource Explain the purpose and use of catalogs
  • Create and manage catalogs
  • Describe, how catalogs are shared between and within organizations
  • Describe vApp templates and their advantages
  • Create and manage the vApp template
  • Create and manage the organization VDC template

7 VMware Cloud Director Networking

  • Discuss the integration of VMware Cloud Director with VMware NSX
  • Describe VMware Cloud Director networks
  • Perform provider networking tasks
  • Discuss organization VDC networks
  • List the types of organization VDC networks
  • Discuss vApp networks
  • List the various types of vApp networks
  • Describe the segment profile template
  • Configure edge gateway services

8 Sub-Provider in VMware Cloud Director

  • Explain the concept of Sub-Providers
  • Explain the configuration of resources to a Sub Provider
  • Manage a Sub-Provider organization
  • Use the Sub-Provider organization to configure identity provider and manage users
  • Configure quotas and policies to a Sub-Provider
  • Perform common catalog tasks in the Sub-Provider organization
  • Perform common networking tasks in the Sub Provider organization

9 VMware Avi Load Balancer

  • Discuss VMware Cloud Director integration with VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer
  • Describe NSX Advanced Load Balancer components
  • Configure NSX Advanced Load Balancer in the provider portal
  • Configure NSX Advanced Load Balancer in the tenant portal

10 Edge Data Center Group Networking

  • Describe Data Center Group network
  • Create Data Center Group
  • Add a NSX Edge gateway to a Data Center Group
  • Activate Distributed Firewall for a Data Center Group
  • Configure Data Center Groups using NSX Federation

11 Additional Features of VMware Cloud Director

  • Explain the purpose and features of advisories.
  • Describe the Guided Tour feature and its use cases
  • Configure VMware Cloud Director branding
  • Explain the Solution Add-Ons feature in Vmware Cloud Director
  • Briefly discuss VMware Cloud Director integration with the following solutions:
    • VMware Cloud Director Availability
    • VMware Cloud Director App Launchpad
    • VMware Cloud Director Container Service Extension
    • VMware Cloud Director Object Storage Extension
    • VMware vCloud Usage Meter
    • VMware Aria Operations for Logs
    • VMware Aria Operations
    • VMware Chargeback
    • VMware Aria Automation
    • VMware Cloud Director Extension for Data Solutions
    • VMware Cloud Provider Lifecycle Manager
    • VMware Workspace ONE

Course Overview

This three-day course features hands-on training that focuses on deploying, configuring, and managing VMware Aria Operations™ for Logs 8.12. You will learn the UI enhancements, features, architecture, use cases, and benefits of VMware Aria Operations for Logs. This course provides you with the knowledge and skills to use VMware Aria Operations for Logs 8.12 to monitor your environment

Course Objectives

After completing this course you should be able to:

  • Identify the features and benefits of VMware Aria Operations for Logs
  • Determine which VMware Aria Operations for Logs cluster meets your monitoring requirements
  • Describe the VMware Aria Operations for Logs architecture and use cases
  • Deploy and configure a VMware Aria Operations for Logs cluster
  • Use the Explore Logs page to get a deep understanding of log data
  • Create and manage queries
  • Manage VMware Aria Operations for Logs agents and agent Groups
  • Create custom dashboards
  • Explain how to use the VMware Aria Operations for Logs widgets
  • Extend the capabilities of VMware Aria Operations for Logs by adding content packs and configuring solutions
  • Discuss VMware Aria Operations for Logs (SaaS)

Course Content

Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

Introduction to VMware Aria Operations for Logs

  • Describe the VMware Aria cloud management platform
  • Describe the VMware Aria™ use cases
  • Describe the key capabilities of VMware Aria Operations for Logs
  • Describe the requirements for a log analytics solution
  • Explain the importance of efficient log management
  • Navigate the VMware Aria Operations for Logs UI
  • Describe the various stages of log processing

VMware Aria Operations for Logs Architecture and Deployment

  • Identify the minimum requirements for deploying VMware Aria Operations for Logs
  • Explain how to use the VMware Aria Operations for Logs sizing calculator
  • Describe VMware Aria Operations for Logs compatibility with other VMware products
  • Describe the VMware Aria Operations for Logs architecture
  • Explain how to install the VMware Aria Operations for Logs virtual appliance

Analyzing Logs

  • Describe the primary functions of the VMware Aria Operations for Logs UI
  • Describe log events
  • Use Explore Logs for understanding and analyzing the log data

VMware Using Dashboards Alerts and Reports

  • Create VMware Aria Operations for Logs custom dashboards
  • Describe how to use the VMware Aria Operations for Logs widgets
  • Configure alerts
  • Explain how to view and manage reports

Administering VMware Aria Operations for Logs

  • Describe user access control in VMware Aria Operations for Logs
  • Describe user management
  • Configure VMware Aria Operations for Logssettings

Managing Data Sources and Content packs

  • Describe how to integrate VMware Operations for Logs with VMware Aria Operations for Logs
  • Install and manage content packs
  • Manage certificates
  • Install and manage agents for VMware Aria Operations for Logs
  • Describe the VMware Aria Operations for Logs Importer

VMware Aria Operations for Logs Integrations

  • Describe how to integrate VMware Operations for Logs with VMware Aria Operations for Logs
  • Discuss the advantages of integrating VMware Operations for Logs with VMware Aria Operations for Logs
  • Discuss the advantages of using the vSAN content pack
  • Explain how to configure the NSX content pack

VMware Aria Operations for Logs (SaaS)

  • Explain the VMware Aria Operations for Logs(SaaS) architecture
  • Describe the ingestion options for Aria Operations for Logs (SaaS)
  • Discuss integration with on-premises Aria Operations for Logs

Course Overview

Learn the concepts of Logical Partitioning (LPAR) for Power System servers with IBM i. In this course you begin with an overview of LPAR on Power System servers, followed with more detailed information on configuration planning and implementation using hands-on exercises to create and implement logical partitions.

Also, learn about partial processors, dynamic allocation and reallocation of memory, processors, interactive Commercial Processing Workloads (CPW), buses, Graphical User Interface (GUI), Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN), Host Ethernet Adapters (HEA) and System Planning Tool (SPT). Use IBM Power7 or Power6 servers and emphasize the new hardware, including the use of the Hardware Management Console (HMC).

This course provides lectures and hands on labs in a face-to-face classroom setting. The course is also offered in a live virtual classroom environment (ILO -Instructor Led Online) with hands-on labs: PowerVM on IBM i – I: Implementing Virtualization and LPAR – ILO (OV5E0GB)

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

  • Describe the PowerVM features
  • Identify, describe, and locate hardware components in the Power System, Flex System and Power Blade models
  • Identify virtualization options available, reliability features and single points of failure for Power Systems servers
  • Implement System Planning Tool in design or update your own system
  • Explain Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT)
  • Describe memory allocation and affinity concepts
  • Describe and configure a partition profile, including shared processors:
    • Capped
    • Uncapped
    • Virtual processors
    • Weighting factor
    • Shared Processor Pools
  • Explain virtual I/O: Serial, Ethernet and SCSI
  • Understand and implement: IBM i installation through NFS, image virtual repository in VIOS, and assigning VSCSI disks to partitions in VIOS
  • Understand base characteristics of IVM and how implement IBM i on Power Blades
  • Describe the NPIV PowerVM feature, how to configure virtual Fiber Channel adapters on the Virtual I/O Server and client partitions
  • Discuss how to use the HMC GUI and commands to work with the World Wide Port Name (WWPN) pairs
  • Identify commands used to examine the NPIV configuration

Course Content

  • PowerVM for IBM i – Overview
  • Power Systems for IBM i
    • Exercise – Lab introduction
  • Introduction to System Planning Tool
    • Exercise – SPT introduction
  • Virtualization of IBM i – Processor, Memory, Processor Pools
  • Virtualization of IBM i – Virtual I/O
    • Exercise – Ethernet connection virtualization
  • Virtualization of IBM i – Installation from NFS or VIOS repository
    • Exercise – Installation from NFS or VIOS repository
  • Implementation of IBM i on Power Blades
  • PowerVM for IBM i – NPIV
    • Exercise: IBM i client partition with NPIV connected disks

Course Overview

Horizon Deploy and Manage + App Volumes Fast Track is a five-day combination course of Horizon Deploy and Manage and App Volumes and Dynamic Environment Manager. Eight days of content are taught over five-days of extended learning. This training collection gives you the hands-on skills to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single virtual desktop infrastructure platform. You will build on your skills in configuring and managing Horizon 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 will 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. Additionally, you will learn how to use App Volumes to deliver applications and data to desktops and users in seconds and at scale. You will gain skills in managing application lifecycles from installation to update and replacement. You will also learn how to use Dynamic Environment Manager to provide personalization and dynamic policy configuration across virtual, physical, and cloud-based environments to simplify end-user profile management.

Course Objectives

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

  • Recognize the features and benefits of Horizon
  • Define a use case for your virtual desktop and application infrastructure
  • 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 Workspace ONE® Access™ and Horizon
  • 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.
  • Describe the features and functions of App Volumes and Dynamic Environment Manager
  • Demonstrate the architectures of App Volumes and Dynamic Environment Manager
  • Install and configure App Volumes
  • Create and deploy Application Packages and writable volumes
  • Install and configure Dynamic Environment Manager
  • Manage application configurations, user environment settings, and personalization settings.

Course Content

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 Workspace ONE 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

19 Overview of App Volumes

  • Explain features and benefits of App Volumes
  • Identify benefits of ThinApp®
  • Identify App Volumes components and architecture
  • Manage application management stages using App Volumes.

20 Working with Application Packages

  • Differentiate between Application, Package and Program
  • Create an Application Package
  • Assign an Application to an entity
  • Use markers to assign the new version of an Application Package
  • Differentiate between Classic and On-Demand delivery of applications
  • Update an Application with a new Package

21 Published Applications

  • Identify the benefits of delivering Published Applications On-Demand
  • List the steps and prerequisites for creating Published Applications on Demand
  • Integrate Horizon Connection Server and App Volumes Manager
  • Associate App Volumes Manager with an automated farm
  • Add Application Pools from App Volumes Manager

22 Advanced App Volumes Configuration

  • Perform advanced configuration of App Volumes
  • Scale App Volumes to multiple locations and sites
  • Run the App Volumes Application Capture Command-Line Program using appcapture.exe

23 Overview of Dynamic Environment Manager

  • Explain features and benefits of Dynamic Environment Manager
  • Identify the components of Dynamic Environment Manager architecture
  • Differentiate between user profile scenarios

24 Management Console User Interface

  • Configure Personalization settings
  • Create Condition sets
  • Perform Application migration
  • Configure User environment settings

25 Advanced Dynamic Environment Manager Configuration

  • Scale Dynamic Environment Manager to multiple locations and sites
  • Use Silos
  • Run the App Volumes Application Capture Command-Line Program using appcapture.exe

26 Application Configuration Management

  • Predefined and user-customized application settings
  • Using Application Profiler
  • Privilege Elevation

27 SyncTool

  • Identify the features of SyncTool
  • Implement SyncTool

28 Horizon Smart Policies

  • Identify the scope of Horizon Smart Policies
  • Configure Horizon Smart Policies settings Define Smart Policies Conditions

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.

Course Objectives

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.

Course Content

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

Course Overview

This course teaches you the administrative skills needed to install, configure, manage, and upgrade three different Nutanix unified storage products: Nutanix Volumes, Nutanix Files and Nutanix Objects

Course Objectives

Upon completing this course, the learner will have the following capabilities with respect to each of these Nutanix storage products:

  • Nutanix Volumes – Learn how Nutanix Volumes provides block storage for your VMs or physical hosts using the iSCSI protocol, with the same simplicity as virtualized workloads, consolidating infrastructure into a single unified platform.
  • Nutanix Files – Set up and manage Nutanix Files, a software-defined, scale-out file storage solution that provides Server Message Block (SMB) and Network File System (NFS) file services to clients.
  • Nutanix Objects – Learn how easy it is to spin up Nutanix Objects in a few simple steps, and build a simple, secure, and scale-out stack.

Course Content

1: Installing and Configuring Nutanix Volumes

  • Understanding When to Use Nutanix Volumes
  • Deploying Nutanix Volumes and Understanding iSCSI Target Redirection
  • Configuring Nutanix Volumes

2: Managing, Upgrading, and Monitoring Nutanix Volumes

  • Failover and Failback Processes
  • Understanding Storage Management and Using the Storage and Volume Groups Dashboards
  • Modifying a Volume Group

3: Analyzing and Optimizing Nutanix Volumes

  • Firewall Settings
  • IQNs/Allowlists
  • iSCSI Timeout Sessions
  • Troubleshooting Volume Group Capacity

Nutanix Volumes: Hands on Labs (3)

  • Preparing the Cluster
  • Configuring Volumes for Windows and Linux
  • Managing Volumes for Windows and Linux
  • Configuring iSCSI Network Segmentation (Optional)

4: Installing and Configuring Nutanix Files

  • Introduction to Nutanix Files
  • Architecting and Sizing Nutanix Files Environments
  • Installing Nutanix Files
  • The File Server Dashboard
  • Configuring Nutanix Files

5: Managing, Upgrading, and Monitoring Nutanix Files

  • Managing Nutanix Files
  • Using File Analytics
  • Using Data Lens and Smart DR
  • Monitoring Performance and Usage
  • Upgrading Nutanix Files

6: Analyzing and Optimizing Nutanix Files

  • Understanding the Nutanix Files High Availability Process
  • Troubleshooting Nutanix Files Issues

Nutanix Files: Hands on Labs (6)

  • Installing Nutanix Files
  • Managing File Shares and Exports with the Files Console
  • Working with File Analytics
  • Deleting Nutanix Files

7: Deploying and Configuring Nutanix Objects

  • Introduction to Nutanix Objects
  • Enabling Nutanix Objects
  • Architecting and Sizing Nutanix Objects
  • Deploying and Configuring Nutanix Objects
  • Configuring Bucket Policies

8: Managing, Upgrading, and Monitoring Nutanix Objects

  • Managing Directories and API Keys
  • Managing the Object Store
  • Managing a Bucket
  • Upgrading Nutanix Objects Using LCM
  • Monitoring Nutanix Objects
  • Replication with Nutanix Objects
  • Cloud Tiering

9: Analyzing and Troubleshooting Nutanix Objects

  • Troubleshooting Issues with Cluster Deployment, Read/Write, Upgrades, and Objects/MSP Clusters using CLI Commands
  • Log Collection for Nutanix Objects

Nutanix Objects: Hands on Labs (9)

  • Configuring Nutanix Objects
  • Managing Nutanix Objects