Horizon Deploy and Manage

Overview

🕮 Off the shelf (OTS)

This course is ideal for:
• IT professionals responsible for the deployment, management, and support of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs)
• System administrators and platform engineers with experience in VMware vSphere and Microsoft Active Directory
• Infrastructure specialists looking to implement and configure Omnissa Horizon 8 environments at scale
• Desktop virtualisation architects seeking to optimise delivery of virtual desktops and applications using Horizon
• Teams managing hybrid or multi-site virtual desktop environments who require Cloud Pod Architecture knowledge
• Professionals preparing for roles in digital workspace management, unified endpoint delivery, or application virtualisation

This course is particularly relevant for those transitioning from traditional desktop deployment models to scalable, secure VDI solutions using Omnissa Horizon 8.

Before attending this course, you must have the following skills:
• Use VMware vSphere® Web Client to view the state of virtual machines, datastores, and networks
• Open a virtual machine console on VMware vCenter® and access the guest operating system
• Create snapshots of virtual machines
• Configure guest customization specifications
• Modify virtual machine properties
• Convert a virtual machine to a template
• Deploy a virtual machine from a template

You must also have the following Microsoft Windows system administration experience:
• Configure Active Directory services, including DNS, DHCP, and time synchronization
• Restrict user activities by implementing Group Policy Objects
• Configure Windows systems to enable Remote Desktop Connections
• Build an ODBC connection to an SQL Server database

This five-day course gives you the hands-on skills to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single virtual desktop infrastructure platform. You build on your skills in configuring and managing Omnissa Horizon® 8 through a combination of lecture and hands-on labs. You learn how to configure and deploy pools of virtual machines and how to provide a customized desktop environment to end-users. Additionally, you learn how to install and configure a virtual desktop infrastructure platform. You learn how to install and configure Omnissa Horizon® Connection Server™, Omnissa Unified Access Gateway™, how to configure a load balancer for use with Horizon, and how to establish Cloud Pod Architecture. Product Alignment - Omnissa Horizon 8 v2212.