Who should attend
Technical IT personnel responsible for the delivery of remote or virtual desktops, applications, and services
Prerequisites
Customers attending this course should have attended the VMware Horizon (with View): Install, Configure, Manage course or have equivalent experience. Students must have experience managing a VMware Horizon deployment.
Course Objectives
This three-day, hands-on course gives you the skills to upgrade from VMware Horizon® 6 to VMware Horizon® 7. It also introduces the new features in VMware Horizon 7 that enable you to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single virtual desktop infrastructure platform. In addition to performing an upgrade, you will use many of the new features available in VMware Horizon 7 to instantly provision virtual and remote desktops and applications.
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Identify the versions of VMware Horizon components
- Upgrade View Connection Server to VMware Horizon 7
- Upgrade View Composer to VMware Horizon 7
- Upgrade VMware Horizon® Client™ systems to Horizon Client 4.6
- Upgrade Horizon Agent to Horizon Agent 7
- Describe the new features in VMware Horizon 7
- Configure and manage automated pools of instant clones
- Use VMware User Environment Manager™ to manage user personalization and application configurations
- Describe how to deploy profile management
- Use VMware App Volumes™ to provision and manage applications
- Troubleshoot upgrade issues
Course Content
- Course Introduction
- Evolution of VMware Horizon
- Upgrading to VMware Horizon 7
- Creating and Managing Instant-Clone Desktop Pools
- Managing VMware Horizon Security
- Profile Management Using User Environment Manager
- Creating RDS Desktop and Application Pools
- Using App Volumes to Provision and Manage Applications
- Troubleshooting an Upgrade