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VMware Horizon 8: Virtual Desktop Troubleshooting

Course Summary:

This two-day course builds your 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.

Course Duration: 2 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 available in the Help Desk Tool
  • Identify a variety of procedures to diagnose and fix problems that you encounter when you create and use 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