Who should attend
Experienced system administrators and system integrators responsible for designing and implementing VMware Horizon solutions
Prerequisites
This course recommends the following skills and knowledge:
- Virtualized desktop implementation experience
- Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Horizon 7: Install, Configure, Manage course or equivalent experience
- Understanding of concepts presented in the VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals course
Course Objectives
This three-day course presents a methodology for designing a VMware Horizon® solution. The design methodology includes recommendations for the type of information and data that must be gathered and analyzed to make sound design decisions for client systems, desktop options, VMware vSphere® infrastructure, and VMware Horizon components. VMware best practices are presented for each phase of the design process. In this course, you apply your new knowledge by working with other participants to design a VMware Horizon solution for a real-world project.
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Assess the business and application requirements of an environment
- Analyze design choices and design an infrastructure architecture for end-user computing that addresses the needs of the environment
- Design a VMware Horizon infrastructure architecture that addresses the needs of the organization and follows VMware best practices
- Document a design that can be implemented
- Design a comprehensive VMware Horizon solution
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- Infrastructure Assessment
- VMware Horizon Design
- VMware Horizon Block and Pod Design
- Pool and Desktop Configuration
- VMware Infrastructure Design
- Storage Design
- Network and Security Design
- End-User Session Design
- Delivering and Managing Applications