VMware App Volumes and Dynamic Environment Manager: Configure and Manage

This three-day course builds your skills in application management with VMware App Volumes and VMware Dynamic Environment Manager. 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 across installation, update, and replacement. You also learn how to use VMware Dynamic Environment Manager to provide personalization and dynamic policy configuration across virtual, physical, and cloud-based environments to simplify end-user profile management.                                                                  

Describe the features, functions, and architecture of App Volumes

• Create predefined configurations for applications by using the Application Profiler
• Manage multiple environments using VMware Dynamic Environment Manager.
• Enable and synchronize the offline use of VMware Dynamic Environment Manager by using SyncTool
• Using VMware Horizon Smart Policies on the VMware Horizon platform
• Create and deliver application packages in App Volumes
• Deliver App Volumes published applications to virtual desktops and on-demand, using Horizon
• Run the App Volumes Application Capture Command-Line Program using appcapture.exe
• Perform advanced configuration of App Volumes
• Scale App Volumes to multiple locations and sites
• Describe the features, functions, and architecture of VMware Dynamic Environment Manager
• Manage application configurations, user environment settings, and personalization settings using VMware Dynamic Environment Manager
• Create predefined configurations for applications by using the Application Profiler
• By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

Use VMware vSphere Web Client to view the state of virtual machines, datastores, and networks

• Configure Windows systems to enable Remote Desktop Connections
• Build an ODBC connection to an SQL Server database
• Open a virtual machine console on VMware vCenter Server and access the guest operating system
• Create snapshots of virtual machines
• Configure guest customization specifications
• Modify virtual machine properties
• Convert a virtual machine to a template
• Deploy a virtual machine from a template
• Configure Active Directory services, including DNS, DHCP, and time synchronization
• Restrict user activities by implementing Group Policy objects
• Customers attending this course should have, at a minimum, the following skills:

Operators, administrators, and architects for VMware Horizon who are responsible for the creation, maintenance, and delivery of remote and virtual desktop services.