Omnissa Horizon 8: Fast Track

About this course

An intensive route through Horizon 8 for seasoned administrators. You will review the Omnissa reference architecture, compare cloud and on-premises deployment options, deploy and configure a Horizon pod with standard and replica Connection Servers, add a capacity provider and understand licensing, gaining a complete view of how every Horizon component fits together.

What you'll learn

• Understand the role and function of all Horizon Components
• Understand both Cloud and On-premises deployment Architecture options
• Deploy and configure a Horizon Pod
• Deplaying and configuring a Standard and Replica server
• Adding a Capacity Provider
• Licensing Options
• Event Database configuration
• Deploying and Configuring the Unified Access Gateway in a clustered infrastructure
• Overview of Horizon Recording Services
• Understanding Horizon Brokering requirements for on-premises and multi-site architectures
• Global and local server load-balancing concepts
• Configure Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture to solve high availability and scalability requirements.
• Authentication Options with Omnissa Horizon
• Configure a secure Single Sign-On solution using Omnissa Access
• Federation overview of Access with Horizon
• Federation overview of Access with Unified Access Gateway
• Deploying and Configuring Horizon TrueSSO
• Deploying and Configuring Enrollment Services
• Omnissa Horizon Graphics
• Configuration and Deployment overview
• Omnissa Horizon session Protocols
• Overview of Horizon Blast
• Overview of PCoIP & PCoIP Ultra
• Overview of RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol)
• Horizon Administration Options
• Image Management best practices for Full Clone and Instant Clone Desktop Pools
• SysPrep and Clone Prep requirements
• Deploying , Configuration and Maintenance options for Persistant and Non-persistant Desktop Pools
• Deploying Configuration and Maintenance Options RDS Server farm
• Horizon Linux Desktop Pool Image Management and Desktop Pool Deployment
• Monitoring Options in the Horizon Admin Console
• Administrative options using the LDS Database
• App Volumes integration with Horizon

Curriculum

Who it's for

Experienced administrators with solid Active Directory knowledge who need Horizon 8 skills quickly.

Before you start

• A minimum of 5 to 7 years of work experience as an Administrator, as well as a good understanding of Microsoft Active Directory, are required