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VMware View 5 Essentials
View All CoursesView is VMware’s solution for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). By virtualizing and centralizing the end user desktop IT organizations can dramatically reduce the cost of supporting the end user. This does, however, require a deep level of understanding of how the infrastructure works to avoid wide spread and long term outages. This course is designed to teach the knowledge and skills necessary to support a VMware View infrastructure. This includes defining, configuring, monitoring, troubleshooting and maintaining the users, pools, applications, data and components that make up the VDI system.
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- Introduction
- About Brian Knudtson
- About Lane Leverett
- Series Purpose
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- Expected Pre-existing Knowledge
- An Overview of the Course Topics
- Let's Get Started
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- Introduction
- Advantage of a Course Scenario
- Our Scenario
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- Introduction
- Advantages of a Lab
- My Lab Hardware
- Existing Infrastructure
- Additional VMs We'll Use
- Active Directory
- My Favorite Supporting Resources
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- Introduction
- Management Services
- View Composer
- View Agent
- View Client
- User Experience
- ThinApp
- View Licensing
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- System Requirements
- Active Directory Requirements
- Client Devices
- Delegated Authority
- Installation Process
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Best Practices for Parent VM
- View Desktop Types
- Configuring View Desktop Pools
- Composer Linked Clones
- Persistent Disk
- Disposable Data Disk
- Pool Sizing
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- User Entitlements
- Composer Operations
- Editing Pools
- Managing User Sessions
- Desktop Pool Management Demonstration
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Value of the User Profile
- Contents of the User Profile
- Options for the Managing User Profiles
- View Persona Management
- Managing View Persona Management
- View Persona Management Settings
- Persistent Disk
- Disposable Disk
- Folder Redirection
- View Persona Management Demonstration
- View Persistent Disk Demonstration
- View Disposable Disk Demonstration
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Printer Mapping Options
- View Location-Based Printing
- Implementing View Location-Based Printing
- Local Printer Redirection Demo
- View Location-Based Mapping Demo
- My Favorite Supporting Resources
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- How ThinApp Virtualizes Applications
- ThinApp Requirements
- ThinApp Limitations
- Steps to Virtualizing with ThinApp
- ThinApp Packaging Machine Best Practices
- Composition of a ThinApp Project
- Composition of a ThinApp Package
- Advanced ThinApp Concepts
- Testing Packages
- Create a ThinApp Package Demonstration
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Execution Modes
- Registering Packages
- ThinReg.exe Utility
- Deployment Options
- Package Security
- Login Script Deployment
- Integration with View
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Event Database
- System Health Dashboard
- View Administrator Dashboard
- Desktop States
- Session Status
- Monitoring Walkthroughs
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Common Failure Points
- Connection Procedures
- How Linked Clones Work
- Ports Needed For View
- PCoIP Performance
- Log File Locations
- Collecting Diagnostic Information
- Troubleshoot Problem Desktops
- Investigate Linked Clones
- What We Covered
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- Introduction
- Version Compatiblity
- Upgrade Steps
- Connection Server Upgrade
- Transfer Server Upgrade
- Composer Upgrade
- Agent Upgrade
- Client Upgrade
- What We Covered
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- Next Steps
Instructors
Brian Knudtson
Brian has worked in the IT field for over 10 years in design, development and infrastructure roles. For the last seven years, he has concentrated on virtualization technologies, with a special focus on virtual desktops in the last three years. During that time, Brian co-founded the Omaha VMware Users Group, received VMware's vExpert award and sat on VMware's Partner Technical Advisory Board. Currently working as a Systems Engineer for a VMware Premier Partner, he holds the following certifications: VCP2, VCP3, VCP4, VCAP4-DCA, VCAP4-DCD, VCA4-DT, VCP4-DT, MCITP 2008: Enterprise Administrator, and HP Master ASE: High Availability and Clustering Solutions. Brian can also be found writing for TechTarget at SearchVMware.com, on his personal blog at www.knudt.net/vblog and on Twitter @bknudtson.
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Lane Leverett
Lane has worked in the IT industry for over 13 years. He has worked as a Server, Network, and Virtualization engineer in both private and public sector organizations. Lane has spent the last 6 years in a consulting role for 3 different Systems Integrators implementing, designing, and architecting VMware Infrastructure, Cisco and HP networking, and EMC, NetApp, HP, and IBM storage solutions for customers. He currently works for ENS Inc. out of Sacramento, CA as a Senior Systems Engineer where he works primarily with VMware Virtualization, EMC, Cisco, and Microsoft solutions for customers.
Lane has focused on server virtualization, specifically VMware server virtualization, over the past 6 years seeing the amazing benefits of cost savings and new opportunities, flexability, and mobility that virtualization offers companies.
In 2010 Lane was awarded the tile of VCDX 3 #53, one of the few people in the world to hold this title. In 2011 he also attained the upgrade of this certification to VCDX 4, as well as some of the newer Virtual Desktop related certifications: VCA4-DT and VCP4-DT. Lane has a passion for engaging with his customers and extoling and evangelizing the benefits of virtualization. He loves any chance he has to share and impart information with his customers.
