VMware NTAI 8: Deploy and Manage plus App Volumes Fast Track

This five-day accelerated, hands-on training course is a blend of VMware NTAI® 8: Skills for Virtual Desktop Management, VMware NTAI 8: Infrastructure Administration, and VMware App Volumes™, and VMware Dynamic Environment Manager™. Eight days of content are taught in five-days of extending learning. This training collection 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 VMware NTAI 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. You learn how to install and configure a virtual desktop infrastructure platform. You learn how to install and configure VMware NTAI® Connection Server™ and VMware Unified Access Gateway™. You also learn how to configure a load balancer for use with NTAI and how to establish Cloud Pod Architecture. Additionally, you learn how to use App Volumes to deliver applications and data to desktops and users in seconds and at scale. You gain skills in managing application life cycles from installation to update and replacement. You also learn how to use Dynamic Environment Manager to provide personalization and dynamic policy configuration across virtual, physical, and cloud-based environments to simplify end-user profile management.

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

Recognize the features and benefits of VMware NTAI
Use VMware vSphere® to create VMs to be used as desktops for VMware NTAI
Create and optimize Windows VMs to create VMware NTAI desktops
Install and configure NTAI Agent on NTAI desktop
Configure and manage the VMware NTAI® Client™ systems and connect the client to a VMware NTAI desktop
Configure, manage, and entitle desktop pools of full VMs
Configure, manage, and entitle pools of instant-clone desktops
Create and use Remote Desktop Services (RDS) desktops and application pools
Monitor the VMware NTAI environment using NTAI Console Dashboard and NTAI Help Desk Tool
Identify NTAI Connection Server installation, architecture, and requirements.
Describe the authentication and certification options for a VMware NTAI environment
Recognize the integration process and benefits of VMware Workspace ONE® Access™ and NTAI 8
Discuss performance and scalability options available in NTAI 8
Describe different security options for the NTAI environment
Describe the features and functions of App Volumes and Dynamic Environment Manager
Demonstrate the architectures of App Volumes and Dynamic Environment Manager
Install and configure App Volumes
Create and deploy Application Packages and writable volumes
Install and configure Dynamic Environment Manager
Manage application configurations, user environment settings, and personalization settings

Course Outline

1 - COURSE INTRODUCTION

Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives

2 - INTRODUCTION TO VMWARE NTAI

Recognize the features and benefits of NTAI
Describe the conceptual and logical architecture of VMware NTAI

3 - INTRODUCTION TO USE CASE

Define a use case for your virtual desktop and application infrastructure
Convert customer requirements to use-case attributes

4 - VSPHERE FOR NTAI 8

Explain basic virtualization concepts
Use vSphere Client to access your vCenter Server system and VMware ESXi™ hosts
Create, provision, and remove a virtual machine

5 - VMWARE NTAI DESKTOPS

Create a Windows and a Linux virtual machine using vSphere
Optimize and prepare Windows and Linux virtual machines to set up VMware NTAI desktop VMs

6 - VMWARE NTAI AGENTS

Outline the configuration choices when installing NTAI Agent on Windows and Linux virtual machines
Create a gold master for Windows NTAI desktops

7 - VMWARE NTAI POOLS

Identify the steps to set up a template for desktop pool deployment
List the steps to add desktops to the NTAI Connection Server inventory
Compare dedicated-assignment and floating-assignment pools
Outline the steps to create an automated pool
Define user entitlement
Explain the hierarchy of global, pool-level, and user-level policies

8 - VMWARE NTAI CLIENT OPTIONS

Describe the different clients and their benefits
Access the VMware NTAI desktop using various VMware NTAI clients and HTML
Configure integrated printing, USB redirection, and the shared folders option
Configure session collaboration and media optimization for Microsoft Teams

9 - CREATING AND MANAGING INSTANT-CLONE DESKTOP POOLS

List the advantages of instant clones
Explain the provisioning technology used for instant-clone desktop pools
Set up an automated pool of instant clones
Push updated images to instant-clone desktop pools

10 - CREATING RDS DESKTOP AND APPLICATION POOLS

Explain the difference between an RDS desktop pool and an automated pool
Compare and contrast an RDS session host pool, a farm, and an application pool
Create an RDS desktop pool and an application pool
Access RDS desktops and application from NTAI Client
Use the instant clone technology to automate the build-out of RDSH farms
Configure load-balancing for RDSHs on a farm

11 - MONITORING VMWARE NTAI

Monitor the status of the VMware NTAI components using the NTAI Administrator console dashboard
Monitor desktop sessions using the HelpDesk tool

12 - NTAI CONNECTION SERVER

Recognize VMware NTAI reference architecture
Identify the NTAI Connection Server supported features
Identify the recommended system requirements for NTAI Connection Server
Configure the NTAI event database
Outline the steps for the initial configuration of NTAI Connection Server
Discuss the ADAM database as a critical component of the NTAI Connection Server installation

13 - VMWARE NTAI AUTHENTICATION AND CERTIFICATES

Compare the authentication options that NTAI Connection Server supports
Describe the Smartcard authentication options that NTAI Connection Server supports
Outline the steps to create a VMware NTAI administrator and custom roles
Describe the roles available in a VMware NTAI environment
Explain the role that certificates play for NTAI Connection Server
Install and configure certificates for NTAI Connection Server
Install and configure True SSO in a VMware NTAI environment

14 - WORKSPACE ONE ACCESS AND VIRTUAL APPLICATION MANAGEMENT

Recognize the features and benefits of Workspace ONE Access
Recognize the Workspace ONE Access console features
Explain identity management in Workspace ONE Access
Explain access management in Workspace ONE Access
Describe the Workspace ONE Access directory integration
Describe the Workspace ONE Access directory integration
Deploy virtual applications with Workspace services

15 - VMWARE NTAI PERFORMANCE AND SCALABILITY

Describe the purpose of a replica connection server
Explain how multiple NTAI Connection Server instances in a pod maintain synchronization
Describe the 3D rendering options available in VMware NTAI 8
List the steps to configure graphics cards for use in a VMware NTAI environment
Configure a load balancer for use in a VMware NTAI environment
Explain NTAI Cloud Pod Architecture LDAP replication and VIPA
Explain NTAI Cloud Pod Architecture scalability options

16 - MANAGING VMWARE NTAI SECURITY

Explain concepts relevant to secure VMware NTAI connections
Describe how to restrict VMware NTAI connections.
Discuss the benefits of using Unified Access Gateway
List the two-factor authentication options that are supported by Unified Access Gateway
List Unified Access Gateway firewall rules
Describe the situation in which you might deploy Unified Access Gateway instances with one, two, or three network interfaces

17 - OVERVIEW OF APPLICATION AND PROFILE MANAGEMENT

Profile Management
Application Management

18 - OVERVIEW OF APP VOLUMES

App Volumes components

19 - APP VOLUMES INSTALLATION OVERVIEW

Requirements
Installing and configuring App Volumes Manager
Installing the App Volumes agent

20 - WORKING WITH APPLICATION PACKAGES

Packaging Applications
Maintaining Applications

21 - WORKING WITH WRITABLE VOLUMES

Default writable volume templates
Writable volume policies at creation
Updating and rescanning writable volumes

22 - WORKING WITH APPSTACKS

Enabling AppStacks
Creating and provisioning AppStacks
Assigning and updating AppStacks
Overriding precedence in AppStacks

23 - OVERVIEW OF DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT MANAGER

Features and benefits
VMware Dynamic Environment Manager terminology
User environment settings and scope
User profile scenarios

24 - INSTALL VMWARE DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT MANAGER

Infrastructure and system requirements
VMware Dynamic Environment Manager Agent (FlexEngine) requirements
Group Policy configuration
Management Console configuration

25 - MANAGEMENT CONSOLE USER INTERFACE

Personalize User Profile
User environment configuration

26 - APPLICATION CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

Predefined and user-customized application settings
Using Application Profiler
Using the Self-Support Tool
Using the Helpdesk Support Tool

27 - VMWARE NTAI SMART POLICIES

Scope of VMware NTAI Smart Policies
Configure VMware NTAI Smart Policies settings
Define Smart Policies conditions

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