VMware View 5: Design Best Practices (VVD)

• Consulting professionals
• Solution architects
• System architects
• System administrators
• IT managers

• Completion of VMware View: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent experience with VMware View
• Completion of VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage or equivalent experience with VMware vSphere

At the end of the course, you should understand the principles involved in designing a View solution and be able to do the following:

• Identify design goals, requirements, and constraints
• Identify information that is required for design decisions
• Recognize situations that benefit from best-practice recommendations
• Use the recommended design process
• Analyze design choices in the following areas:
  • ­ View Manager infrastructure
  • ­ View desktop options
  • ­ vSphere infrastructure
  • ­ Network infrastructure
  • ­ Client access devices
  • ­ End-user management
• Construct a comprehensive View solution

1 Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

2 Design Methodology

• General design process
• Elements of a successful View solution
• A design process for View solutions

3 Use-Case Definition

• Identifying use cases and their characteristics
• Options for collecting performance data

4 Pool and Desktop Design

• Mapping use cases to View pools
• Design decisions for pool configurations
• Configuring and optimizing virtual desktops

5 View Pod and Block Design

• Designing the access infrastructure
• Design decisions for remote display protocols
• Designing a load-balancer solution
• Designing the View infrastructure

6 VMware Infrastructure Design

• Mapping View infrastructure requirements to vSphere
• Sizing VMware ESX™/ESXi hosts for CPU and memory
• Sizing configuring vCenter Server™ systems
• Sizing network capacity for PCoIP and RDP

7 Storage Design

• Designing the storage solution
• Sizing datastores based on capacity and performance metrics
• Deploying tiered storage for View Composer linked clones

8 End-User Session and Client Device Design

• Managing end-user personas and sessions
• Best practices for using Active Directory in a View environment
• Managing user profiles in a View environment
• Selecting client devices