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VMware Horizon 8: Troubleshooting Bootcamp

Course Summary:

VMware Horizon 8: Troubleshooting Bootcamp is a five-day combination course of VMware Horizon 8: Virtual Desktop Troubleshooting & VMware Horizon 8: Infrastructure Troubleshooting. This training collection gives you the hands-on skills in resolving common issues that occur in a VMware Horizon® environment. You will engage in a series of lab exercises to bring existing environment issues to resolution. The exercises mirror real-world troubleshooting use cases. These exercises equip learners with the knowledge and practical skills to manage typical challenges faced by Tier 1 virtual desktop administrators and operators, as well as advanced knowledge, skills, and abilities to troubleshoot VMware Horizon 8 infrastructure. This workshop teaches the required skill and competence for troubleshooting Horizon Connection Server, Unified Access Gateway, protocols, connections, and certificates.

Course Duration: 5 Days


Course Content:

1 Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
  • Course objectives

2 Overview of Virtual Desktop and Application Virtualization Troubleshooting

  • Identify VMware Horizon architecture and supportability using VMware Documentation
  • Apply systematic troubleshooting methods to logically diagnose faults by collecting valid and accurate information regarding the environment and problems
  • Identify the different approaches to take when a problem occurs and how to document them

3 Command-Line Tools and Backup Options

  • Describe key Horizon Connection Server features that are available as CLI options with the vdmadmin command
  • Identify and collect the log locations for each VMware Horizon component
  • Describe the VMware Horizon backup and restore and its benefits
  • Identify the Database reporting functionality and the steps to resolve inconsistencies

4 Troubleshooting Machines and Desktops

  • Identify the information captured in the Help Desk Tool
  • List the procedures to diagnose and fix problems encountered when creating or using machines and desktop pools
  • Identify procedures you can follow to diagnose and fix problems while creating and using Linux desktops

5 Horizon End User Performance and Optimization

  • Discuss the VMware Logon Monitor requirements
  • Describe the VMware Logon Monitor configuration
  • List the VMware Logon Monitor metrics
  • Identify the advantages of image optimization
  • Explain how to optimize VMware Horizon Windows desktops

6 Troubleshooting Instant Clones

  • Describe how instant clones are created
  • Explain what gets logged when an instant clone is created
  • Identify the keywords to look for in logs when troubleshooting instant clones
  • Discuss how to troubleshoot problems with instant clones

7 Troubleshooting Horizon Client

  • Identify steps that you can follow to solve problems related to Windows Horizon Client
  • Identify steps to solve problems related to Horizon Client for Linux
  • Identify steps that you can follow to solve problems related to Horizon HTML Access
  • Identify steps to solve problems related to Horizon Client for Mac

8 Troubleshooting Common Client Connection Issues

  • Identify the key ports in the Horizon environment
  • Discuss how to troubleshoot black screen problems

9 Troubleshooting Device Redirection

  • List troubleshooting steps applicable to USB Redirection issue
  • Discuss Nested RDSH Redirection

10 Troubleshooting Horizon Connection Server

  • Identify general troubleshooting techniques for Horizon Connection Server
  • Explain how to use logs to identify common Horizon Connection Server problems
  • Describe Active Directory (AD) Lightweight Directory Service (LDS) Replication
  • Discuss Horizon Connection Server Replication common issues
  • Explain how to interpret Horizon Connection Server logs
  • Compare successful and unsuccessful logs from common infrastructure administration tasks

11 Troubleshooting Unified Access Gateway

  • List and identify common UAG deployment issues
  • Explain how to monitor the health of a Unified Access Gateway deployment
  • Identify and Troubleshoot UAG certificate issues
  • Explain how to monitor, test, and troubleshoot network errors using tcpdump and curl
  • Detail general Unified Access Gateway troubleshooting methods

12 BLAST Configuration

  • Discuss BLAST Codecs and Encoder Switch settings
  • Describe how to verify BLAST configuration using logs and settings

13 Optimizing BLAST

  • List general BLAST optimization recommendations
  • Summarize BLAST tuning recommendations that apply to WAN connections
  • Summarize BLAST tuning recommendations that apply to work-from-home and home-office-to-cloud use cases
  • Describe recommended tuning options to increase display protocol quality for all use cases and applications

14 Troubleshooting VMware Horizon Connections

  • Explain VMware Horizon connections
  • Describe the role of primary and secondary protocols in VMware Horizon connections
  • Describe HTML Client Access Connections
  • Describe Horizon Connections Load Balancing
  • Describe timeout settings, supported health monitoring string, and suitable Load balancer persistence values
  • Identify troubleshooting steps for failing Horizon Load Balancer connections
  • List the steps for troubleshooting VMware Horizon connections

15 Troubleshooting VMware Horizon Certificates

  • List VMware Horizon certificate functions
  • Describe VMware Horizon certificate scenarios
  • Discuss potential challenges related to certificates in VMware Horizon
  • Describe the troubleshooting approach to Horizon certificates issues

16 Cloud Pod Architecture

Describe Cloud Pod Architecture troubleshooting scenarios