This free eLearning course highlights the new features and enhancements in Horizon View V6 and VMware Mirage V5 products. It also presents use cases that describe how the new features align with customer needs.
At the end of this course, you should be able to explain the key features of Horizon 6 and describe the enhancements to the different product areas — View, Workspace, and Mirage.
Tuesday, June 10. 2014
Reviewer’s Guide for View in Horizon 6
The purpose of the Reviewer’s Guide for View in Horizon 6 is to familiarize you with the new features and capabilities in the context of use case scenarios so that you can evaluate both new and core capabilities.
The Reviewer’s Guide for View in Horizon 6 is for prospective IT administrators and media reviewers of View. Some familiarity with VMware technologies is assumed, including a basic knowledge of VMware vSphere ESXi and VMware vCenter and how to configure networking and storage in a virtual environment.
This document provides step-by-step exercises to guide you through installation and setup of core and deployment scenarios. This guide is not intended as a substitute for product documentation.
You can find more detailed information about installation, configuration, administration, and use of View in the VMware Horizon with View documentation. You can consult the VMware Knowledge Base if you have additional questions. For more in-depth technical white papers, see Horizon with View resources.
You can find more detailed information about installation, configuration, administration, and use of View in the VMware Horizon with View documentation. You can consult the VMware Knowledge Base if you have additional questions. For more in-depth technical white papers, see Horizon with View resources.
Wednesday, June 4. 2014
Free ThinApp Instructional Videos
ThinApp, a key component of VMware Horizon Suite, is an agentless application virtualization solution that isolates applications from their underlying operating systems to eliminate application conflict and streamline application delivery and management.
VMware is introducing 9 free instructional ThinApp videos that take you from the basics behind what ThinApp is to various technical deep dives on how to install ThinApp and add applications.
Your guide on this tour is Senior Technical Trainer and VMware Certified Instructor, Linus Bourque. Linus guides you through a discussion on each of the ThinApp concepts in this series, followed by a demonstration for each concept. The videos below are between 5-10 minutes long and you can pick and choose according to your experience and interests.
- What is ThinApp
- How to Install and Package a Simple App
- How to Install and Package a Simple App Demonstration
- How to Use ThinDirect
- How to Use ThinDirect Demonstration
- How to do an Application Update
- How to do an Application Update Demo
- How to add an Application to Horizon View
- How to add an Application to Horizon View Demonstration
Monday, June 2. 2014
New Book - VMware Horizon Suite: Building End-User Services
Today, IT professionals must manage stateless, mobile, streamed workspaces delivered across devices ranging from traditional PCs to tablets and smartphones. Using VMware View and VMware Horizon Suite, they can do so–providing flexible end-user services that support any business requirement cost effectively.
Now there’s a complete guide to planning, configuring, implementing, and integrating VMware Horizon Suite technologies and using them to deliver high-value end-user services in enterprise, managed, and cloud provider environments.
This book’s deep up-to-date technical content addresses considerations ranging from architecture, deployment, and operations to user experience and support. It offers detailed guidance on integration with VMware View and key third-party technologies. Throughout, it fully reflects the newest VMware View releases, including VMware Horizon Mirage.
Relevant, clear, and usable, VMware Horizon Suite contains step-by-step configuration examples, sample scenarios helping you choose the right technologies for your users’ needs, and a complete end-user computing design checklist.
Coverage includes:
- Understanding the new end-user service model and how VMware View and VMware Horizon address it
- Mastering VMware View 6 and VMware Workspace 1.8 architectures
- Leveraging proven installation and implementation techniques
- Efficiently operating Connection, Security, and Transfer servers
- Managing agents, clients, portals, composers, and personas
- Integrating VMware View and Workspace
- Implementing operational best practices, such as desktop pools, user data management, and SaaS
- Using VMware Mirage to manage desktop images more intelligently and provide a wider spectrum of end-user services
- Delivering multimedia within a View desktop environment
- Integrating Microsoft Lync with VMware View
- Monitoring VMware View and optimizing its performance
Video - Resolving OpenSSL Heartbleed for VMware vCenter Server 5.5
This video discusses and demonstrates the resolution procedure for vCenter Server 5.5 in response to the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability.