VMware View 5 Essentials Training

This course teaches a virtualization starter how to use VMware View 5.0 to set up a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Virtualization experts Brian Knudtson and Lane Leverett guide you from VDI basics, through app virtualization and more. Learn how to get your View environment up and running and reduce costs for your end-user desktops.

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Brian KnudtsonvExpert, Quadruple VCP, VCA-Desktop, VCP-Desktop, VCAP-DCA, VCAP-DCD
Lane LeverettVCDX 3 and 4 (VCDX #53), VCAP4-DCD, VCA4-DT , VCP4-DT, VCP3 and 4, MCSE NT4/2000/2003, CCNA, DCUCD, DCUCI

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by Brian Knudtson
vExpert, Quadruple VCP, VCA-DT, VCP-DT, VCAP-DCA, VCAP-DCD

My Fellow Administrator,

Have you been tasked with investigating or implementing a VMware View environment? Not quite sure the best way to get it up and running? If so, then I have a great resource for you. I’ve collaborated with Lane Leverett, a VCDX and fellow View expert, to develop the new VMware View 5 Essentials training course. This course was designed to walk you through:

The concepts of a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
The components of VMware View
How to install and configure VMware View
How to manage desktop pools, user data, printing and applications within VMware View
Some basic troubleshooting tips

For those of you who may already be familiar with View 4.5 (or have seen my previous View 4 course), we will cover the upgrade process from View 4.5 to View 5.0 along with new features like Persona Management and the new PCoIP optimization settings. I hope you’ll check it out and find it useful.

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Course Outline

VMware View 5 Essentials Training - Course Outline

Lesson 1 - Getting Started with VMware View 5 Essentials Training

In this lesson, you'll meet your instructors, and learn about what is VDI and a brief overview of the entire course.

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

Lesson 2 - Course Scenario

Learn about the fictional company we’ll use to place the lessons into real-world situations.

Advantage of a Course Scenario
Our Scenario

Lesson 3 - Lab Setup

This lesson will introduce you to the lab environment where our demonstrations will occur.

Advantages of a Lab
My Lab Hardware
Existing Infrastructure
Additional VMs We'll Use
Active Directory
My Favorite Supporting Resources

Lesson 4 - View Components and Licensing

In this lesson we’ll go over the individual View components and how they fit together to form the overall View Architecture.

Management Services
View Composer
View Agent
View Client
User Experience
ThinApp
View Licensing

Lesson 5 - Installing View 5

In this lesson, we’ll go through the steps to bringing your View Infrastructure to life.

System Requirements
Active Directory Requirements
Client Devices
Installation Process

Lesson 6 - Configuring Virutal Desktops

In this lesson you’ll learn the concepts of building a streamlined base image, pooling of desktops, and how a desktop image can be partitioned into isolated components.

Best Practices for Parent VM
View Desktop Types
Configuring View Desktop Pools
Composer Linked Clones
Persistent Disk
Disposable Data Disk
Pool Sizing

Lesson 7 - Maintaining Desktop Pools

This lesson goes through the concepts of getting desktop pools started and maintaining pools and sessions.

User Entitlements
Composer Operations
Editing Pools
Managing User Sessions
Desktop Pool Management Demonstration

Lesson 8 - User Profiles and Data

In this lesson, we’ll discuss and demonstrate how we can maintain the users’ desktop environment from one View session to the next. This provides a consistent and familiar workspace for the users even when they’re not accessing the same desktop every day.

Value of the User Profile
Contents of the User Profile
Options for 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

Lesson 9 - Printing

Dealing with printers can be difficult in any desktop environment, and View introduces some new challenges. In this lesson, we’ll cover some of the more popular ways of dealing with printers in a View environment.

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

Lesson 10 - Creating ThinApp Packages

To complete a truly dynamic and efficient Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, you will need to virtualize your business applications. In this lesson, we’ll show you the steps needed to virtualize applications using ThinApp.

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

Lesson 11 - ThinApp Deployment

Once your applications are virtualized with ThinApp, they still need to be delivered to the desktops. We’ll show you several ways to accomplish this in this lesson.

Execution Modes
Registering Packages
ThinReg.exe Utility
Deployment Options
Package Security
Login Script Deployment
Integration with View

Lesson 12 - Monitoring View

After all is said and done you’re going to need to know how to care and feed your new View Environment. In this section we’ll dive into the different views for gathering information about the status of the environment as well as describe and demonstrate some of the different states and status of desktops and sessions.

Event Database
System Health Dashboard
View Administrator Dashboard
Desktop States
Session Status
Monitoring Walkthroughs

Lesson 13 - Troubleshooting View

All IT systems eventually fail in some way. To help prepare you for troubleshooting View, we’ve addressed many common failure points and pulled back the covers on several parts of View so you can better understand how they work.

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

Lesson 14 - Upgrading to View 5

For environments that already have View 4.5 installed, this lesson will help guide you through the upgrade process.

Version Compatibility
Upgrade Steps
Connection Server Upgrade
Transfer Server Upgrade
Composer Upgrade
Agent Upgrade
Client Upgrade

Lesson 15 - Next Steps

In this lesson, we’ll wrap up the course by recapping what we’ve covered throughout the course and look at what additional steps you should take in furthering your Vmware career.

Certified Instruction

Brian Knudtson (vExpert, Quadruple VCP, VCA-Desktop, VCP-Desktop, VCAP-DCA, VCAP-DCD)

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, VCP5, 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 (VCDX 3 and 4 (VCDX #53), VCAP4-DCD, VCA4-DT , VCP4-DT, VCP3 and 4, MCSE NT4/2000/2003, CCNA, DCUCD, DCUCI)

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.

Courses Instructed by Lane Leverett

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