Overview
VMware Video on Demand offers a powerful alternative to traditional classroom training, delivering modular videos that can be accessed anytime, anywhere, and from any device.
VMware On Demand is a robust, self-paced learning solution delivering modular training combined with hands-on practice labs, giving you a powerful alternative to traditional classroom training.
- Compelling: Interactive modules with labs that build as you progress
- Official e-courseware
- Comprehensive: Rich content equivalent to classroom training that meets certification course requirements, including final assessments. Some courses also include bonus items like exam vouchers*
- Convenient: 30 days to access the content multiple times at your pace
Overview:
This hands-on course, equivalent to one day of training, builds skills in post-deployment configuration and administration of VMware Horizon® 7. The configuration and administration skills are focused on the inclusion of VMware vSAN™ 6.7 storage datastores for desktop pools and virtual machines deployed and managed by VMware Horizon 7.
Product Alignment
- VMware ESXi™
- VMware vCenter Server® 6.7
- vSAN 6.7
- VMware Horizon 7.7
Prerequisites
- Good understanding of TCP/IP services
- Working experience of enterprise switching and routing
- Good understanding of network security and working experience with firewalls
Solid understanding of concepts presented in the following courses:
- VMware Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals
- VMware Introduction to Network Virtualization with NSX
- VMware Network Virtualization Fundamentals
Objectives
- Identify vSAN and VMware Horizon 7 integration considerations
- Recognize the benefits of using vSAN as the native storage for VMware Horizon 7
- Describe basic vSAN architecture and components
- Describe basic VMware Horizon 7 architecture and components
- Identify the vSAN features that benefit VMware Horizon 7
- Describe key vSAN characteristics
- Identify ways to overcome vSAN limitations in a VMware Horizon 7 environment
- Define hardware, software, and storage requirements for a given use case
- Identify desktop pool use cases and how these cases affect vSAN datastore sizing
- Configure a desktop pool for a given use case
- Determine and configure the correct vSAN storage policies for VMware Horizon 7
Outline
Outline: 1 Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Describe the software-defined data center
2 Integrating vSAN with VMware Horizon 7
- Identify vSAN and VMware Horizon 7 integration considerations
- Describe basic vSAN architecture
- Describe basic VMware Horizon 7 architecture
- Identify key vSAN characteristics that affect VMware Horizon 7 design and sizing
- Describe basic vSAN architecture and components
- Identify ways that vSAN benefits VMware Horizon 7
- Recognize vSAN features that are key to increasing storage performance in VMware Horizon 7
- Identify ways to overcome vSAN limitations with VMware Horizon 7
3 Configuring vSAN for Horizon 7
- Define hardware, software, and storage requirements for a specific use case.
- Configure a desktop pool for a specific use case.
- Recognize vSAN sizing considerations for VMware Horizon 7
- Determine the appropriate vSAN sizing and cluster type for a VMware Horizon 7 environment or pool
- Apply vSAN design considerations
- Describe the expansion of a vSAN cluster
- Configure vSAN disk groups
4 Configuring VMware Horizon 7 to use vSAN
- Identify Horizon Connection Server requirements
- Configure Horizon Connection Server storage settings
- Describe how to configure the event database
- Describe the function of View Composer
- Describe replica tiering
- Identify vSAN datastore requirements for linked-clone desktop pools
- Deploy linked-clone desktops from a vSAN datastore
- Optimize storage for instant-clone desktops
- Describe replica and instant-clone virtual machine storage options
5 vSAN Policies for VMware Horizon Desktops
- Explain how storage policies work with VMware Horizon 7
- Explain virtual machine storage policies
- Identify virtual machine storage policy compliance status
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