Course
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Omnissa Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage
Course facts
- Understanding the role and function of all Horizon Components and both Cloud and On-premises deployment architectures
- Deploying and configuring a Horizon Pod, including Standard and Replica servers, capacity providers, licensing, and Event Database setup
- Deploying and configuring the Unified Access Gateway in a clustered infrastructure for secure access
- Configuring a secure Single Sign-On (SSO) solution using Omnissa Access, including Federation overviews and deploying Horizon TrueSSO and Enrollment Services
- Understanding Horizon Brokering requirements for on-premises and multi-site architectures, including load-balancing, and configuring Cloud Pod Architecture for high availability and scalability
- Understanding Omnissa Horizon session Protocols, specifically Horizon Blast, PCoIP & PCoIP Ultra, and RDP
- Applying best practices for Image Management (Full Clone, Instant Clone) and Desktop Pool maintenance (Persistent, Non-persistent, RDS)
- Utilizing Horizon Administration Options, including monitoring, the LDS Database, App Volumes integration, and Horizon Agent/Client options
1 Omnissa Reference Architecture Overview
At the end of this module you will learn Omnissa best practices with the regard to Designing Horizon.
2 Horizon 8 Architecture Overview
At the end of this module you should have a clear understanding of the primary components that make up Horizon 8. Understand the Architectural Options available and deployment terminology, when deploying Horizon 8 for both on-premises , Hybrid and Cloud deployments.
3 Horizon Connect Server Overview
The primary requirements and install options when deploying the Horizon Connection Server.
4 Securing the Horizon Transport
Once Connection Server/s are deployed, knowing when to enable a session Tunnel and not to enable Tunnelling for Horizon sessions.
5 Workspace ONE Integration with Horizon
Understand what Omnissa Intelligence, Hub Services, Workspace ONE UEM are and the role they might play with Horizon in solving business challenges.
6 Unified Access Gatway Overview
Understand how we deploy and configure the Unified Access Gateway.
7 Horizon Brokering
Understand the Horizon Transport and how this will translate when communicating local and global server load balancing requirements for Horizon 8.
8 Horizon Desktop Pool Administration
Now that you understand the Horizon Architecture, deploying and configuring a Desktop Pool options will be clearer. We will cover the entire process starting with Image creation best practices , deployment of Pools to Maintenance operations. Our main focus is the creation and deployment of Windows Desktops.
9 Horizon Linux Desktop Deployment
In this module we will provide and overview of the traditional and Easy Setup to Image creation and Desktop Pool deployments.
10 Horizon Authentication and Single-Sign On requirements
At the end of this module you will understand what authentication options Horizon supports directly and how Horizon infrastructure will integrate with Identity Providers both 3rd Party and Omnissa Access. The role that Enrollment services plays to ensure single sign-on.
11 Cloud Pod Architecture
At the end of this module you will understand what challenges Cloud Pod Architecture solves and the elements involved in enabling and configuring.
12 Horizon RDS Published Applications
How we deploy and configure a RDS Server Farm and what the options are for Application Pools. This also includes App Volumes integrations.
13 Horizon Agent and Client Options
An overview of the most important security and performance related settings which are available directly through the agent and client but can also be configured through the Admin Console and Group Policy settings.
14 Horizon Protocols
At the end of this module you will understand what Codecs Horizon Blast supports. You will also have a clearing understanding of the our options related to PCoIP and the RDP protocol.
15 Horizon Graphics
At the end of this module you will have a clearer understanding related to what the options are related to 3D rendering and Hardware acceleration.
16 Horizon Administrative Tasks
At the end of this module you will have an understanding primary elements that make up the Horizon Admin Console to support, configure troubleshoot both Users Horizon Desktop and Published Application sessions. You will have an overview of Horizon Performance tracker and learn some of the Real Time monitoring options available. You will also walk through the process of Delegating privilege to administrators in an enterprise.
This course is aimed at Tier 1 Operators, administrators, and architects, responsible for the creation, maintenance, and or delivery of remote and virtual desktop services.
Additional duties can include the implementation, support, and administration of an organization's end-user computing infrastructure.
- Understanding of fundamental Networking / Storage and Infrastructure concepts
- Understanding of TCP/IP
- Recommended, but not mandatory, to know vSphere as a platform
- Microsoft Active Directory
In this course you will receive electronic course materials. The documents will be sent to you by Omnissa prior to the course to the address you provide when you register. You have the option of bringing your own tablet or laptop so that you can read the content and exercises parallel to your lessons. In addition, you can save your documents in the right place.