VMware View: Install, Configure, Manage (v5.1)

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Introduction to VMware View

• View features and components

View Connection Server

• Installation and configuration

View Desktops

• View Agent
• PCoIP and Remote Desktop Protocol remote display protocols
• USB redirection and multimedia redirection

View Client Options

• View Client
• View Client with Local Mode
• Thin clients and zero clients
• Virtual Printing with View Client

View Administrator

• Configuring the View environment
• Managing users, sessions, and policies
• Configuring and provisioning automated pools of desktops
• Role-based delegated administration
• Monitoring the View environment

Configuring and Managing Linked Clones

• View Composer operations
• Deploying and provisioning linked-clone desktops
• Managing linked-clone desktops
• Managing persistent disks

Local-Mode Desktops

• Configuring local-mode desktops
• View Transfer Server and the Transfer Server repository
• Local-mode operations

Managing View Security

• Network configuration and authentication options
• Configuring the View security server

View Persona Management

• Configuring user profiles with View Persona Management
• View Persona Management and Windows roaming profiles
• Configuring a View Persona Management deployment
• Best practices for a View Persona Management deployment

Command-Line Tools and Backup Options

• vdmadmin utility
• Client systems in kiosk mode
• Backing up the View databases
• Restoring the View databases

View Connection Server Performance and Scalability

• Replica connection servers
• Performance considerations and load balancing

VMware ThinApp

• Using ThinApp to capture applications
• Deploying and updating ThinApp packages
• Virtualizing Internet Explorer 6 for use on a Windows 7 system
• Managing ThinApp applications in View