VMware NTAI® 7 – Design Workshop v7.0 – Network Technology Academy

VMware NTAI® 7 - Design Workshop v7.0

This three-day course presents a methodology for designing a VMware NTAI® solution.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

Assess the business and application requirements of an environment
Analyze design choices and design an EUC infrastructure architecture that addresses the needs of the environment
Design a VMware NTAI infrastructure architecture that addresses the needs of the organization and follows VMware best practices
Document a design that can be implemented
Design a comprehensive VMware NTAI solution

Course Outline

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 NTAI DESIGN

Identify the design process to build a VMware NTAI solution
Identify the VMware NTAI 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 NTAI BLOCK & POD DESIGN

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

5 - VMWARE INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN

Identify factors and design decisions that determine the sizing for VMware ESXi™ hosts
Estimate and size CPU and memory requirements
Describe the design considerations for sizing network capacity
Outline the privileges that are required by an administrative user account

6 - POOL & DESKTOP DESIGN

Map use cases to VMware NTAI instances and VMware NTAI pools
Design desktop pools for a given use case
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 NTAI performance

7 - STORAGE DESIGN

Identify factors that determine the sizing for shared storage
Identify benefits of using tiered storage for linkedclone pools
Identify use cases and benefits of using View Storage Accelerator
Identify use cases and benefits of using persistent disks and disposable-files disks in linked-clone desktops
Identify use cases and benefits of using VMware vSAN™

8 - NETWORK & 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 optimization strategies
Identify use cases and benefits of using firewalls for DMZ-based security servers

9 - END-USER SESSION & DEVICE DESIGN

Configure NTAI Persona Management for enduser 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 NTAI solution
Identify VMware best practices for True SSO
Identify client device characteristics and requirements

10 - DELIVERING & MANAGING APPLICATIONS

Describe the importance of the application delivery mechanism
Determine which VMware NTAI 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

Actual course outline may vary depending on offering center. Contact your sales representative for more information.