VMware Horizon 7: Design Workshop (VHDW)

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 Infrastructure Assessment

• Define customer business objectives
• Gather and analyze business and application requirements
• Use a systematic methodology to evaluate and document design decisions

3 VMware Horizon Design

• Identify the design process to build a VMware Horizon solution
• Identify the VMware Horizon reference architecture
• Outline the process to define a use case
• Determine use cases for a given business case study
• Outline the process to define service definition

4 VMware Horizon Block and Pod Design

• Identify the components of a typical VMware Horizon block and pod
• Outline the relationships between VMware Horizon management block components
• Design a VMware Horizon desktop block and pod configuration for a given use case
• Configure cloud pod architecture for multisite pool access

5 Pool and Desktop Configuration

• List the key considerations for sizing hardware for a desktop virtual machine
• Identify key virtual desktop performance tuning and Windows optimizations and their effects on VMware Horizon performance
• Map use cases to VMware Horizon instances and VMware Horizon pools
• Design desktop pools for a given use case

6 VMware Infrastructure Design

• Identify factors and design decisions that determine the sizing for VMware ESXi™ hosts
• Estimate and size CPU and memory requirements
• Determine cluster requirements for VMware vSphere® High Availability and VMware vSphere® Distributed Resource Scheduler™
• Outline the privileges that are required by an administrative user account

7 Storage Design

• Identify factors that determine the sizing for shared storage
• Determine storage-sizing formulas for clone disks
• Reduce storage requirements with instant clones
• Identify use cases and benefits of using View Storage Accelerator
• Identify use cases and benefits of using VMware vSAN™

8 Network and Security Design

• Identify the design decisions related to bandwidth use
• Identify use cases and benefits of using load balancing and traffic management
• Identify the best practices for avoiding network congestion
• Recognize the PCoIP and Blast Extreme optimization strategies
• Describe the design considerations for sizing network capacity
• Evaluate security features of the security server and VMware Unified Access Gateway™
• Compare the security server and Unified Access Gateway

9 End-User Session Design

• Configure Horizon Persona Management for end-user personalization
• Discuss the use of VMware User Environment Manager™ for personalizing desktops
• Identify VMware best practices for Active Directory containers, groups, and Group Policy object policies in a VMware Horizon solution
• Identify VMware best practices for True SSO
• Identify client device characteristics and requirements

10 Delivering and Managing Applications

• Describe the importance of the application delivery mechanism
• Determine which VMware Horizon application tool should be used to accomplish which business objectives
• Design and create Remote Desktop Services farms and application pools to support the deployment of applications