VMware Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage Plus App Volumes Fast Track

Course Description

VMware Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage Plus App Volumes Fast Track prepares infrastructure and application professionals to work confidently with Horizon and App Volumes architecture, component placement, infrastructure requirements, directory services, Connection servers, unified access gateways, agents. Activities emphasize repeatable configuration, realistic tests, evidence quality, and accountable handover.

Practical work also covers App Volumes managers, agents, packages, capture workflow, Profiles, DEM integration, monitoring. Evidence such as integrated platform design and readiness assessment, Horizon build record and end-to-end session validation, application-package acceptance test and assignment trace, combined desktop-and-application runbook and performance baseline supports boundary testing, fault isolation, corrective action, and safe transition to operational ownership.

On completing the course, learners can defend the implementation and operation of an integrated Horizon 8 and App Volumes environment that rapidly provisions desktops, attaches managed applications, secures remote access, and supports controlled image and application lifecycle operations. A final plan identifies acceptance gaps, rollback considerations, owners, and operational safeguards.

What You Will Learn

• Explain how Horizon and App Volumes architecture, component placement, and infrastructure requirements establish the technical foundation and influence later design decisions.
• Configure directory services, networks, storage, certificates, sizing, and integration dependencies, then confirm readiness through integrated platform design and readiness assessment instead of relying on completion messages alone.
• Execute a controlled workflow covering Connection servers, unified access gateways, and agents, preserving prerequisites, changes, and resulting service behavior.
• Read Horizon build record and end-to-end session validation to isolate a pool provisioning successfully while users lack entitlement to the final desktop, separate symptoms from causes, and choose a correction that can be safely retested.
• Integrate App Volumes managers, agents, and packages with access, capacity, resilience, and downstream operational expectations.
• Challenge capture workflow, assignments, storage groups, lifecycle, updates, application conflicts, and Horizon integration using normal and boundary cases, then defend the outcome with application-package acceptance test and assignment trace.
• Investigate application attachment sequencing increasing login duration beyond the service target by reviewing Profiles, DEM integration, and monitoring before applying a reversible fix.
• Prepare combined desktop-and-application runbook and performance baseline that demonstrates troubleshooting, login performance, backups, upgrades, security, change control, capacity, and operational handover and supports handover, monitoring, governance, and the next improvement decision.

SkillDynamo Training Approach

Sessions move from concept mapping to guided build, scenario analysis, evidence-based validation, reversible correction, operational review, and improvement planning. Both expected flows and failure conditions are tested before a result is accepted.