VMware Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage Plus App Volumes Fast Track — Lesson 4: Profiles, DEM integration, monitoring, troubleshooting, login performance, backups, upgrades, security, change control, capacity, and operational handover

Learning Objectives

• Translate a realistic infrastructure or application requirement into an executable approach for Profiles, DEM integration, monitoring, troubleshooting, login performance, backups, upgrades, security, change control, capacity, and operational handover.
• Use combined desktop-and-application runbook and performance baseline to verify configuration, connectivity, security, and expected behavior.
• Explain how to recover safely when application attachment sequencing increasing login duration beyond the service target occurs.

Detailed Topics

• Profiles
• DEM integration
• Monitoring
• Troubleshooting
• Login performance
• Backups
• Upgrades
• Security
• Change control
• Capacity
• And operational handover
• Decision ownership, prerequisites, and acceptance evidence for Profiles, DEM integration, monitoring, troubleshooting, login performance, backups, upgrades, security, change control, capacity, and operational handover
• Relevant access, security, capacity, dependency, performance, recovery, and support considerations

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor configures and tests Profiles, DEM integration, monitoring, troubleshooting, login performance, backups, upgrades, security, change control, capacity, and operational handover within a scenario aimed at 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. The walkthrough contrasts a valid setup with a flawed one and uses combined desktop-and-application runbook and performance baseline to make the difference explicit.

Hands-On Exercise

Build or execute Profiles, DEM integration, monitoring, troubleshooting, login performance, backups, upgrades, security, change control, capacity, and operational handover for a defined scenario. Introduce the condition “application attachment sequencing increasing login duration beyond the service target,” inspect the evidence, correct the cause without discarding the audit trail, and document the accepted state in combined desktop-and-application runbook and performance baseline.

1. Define the requirement and identify dependencies before changing the environment.
2. Create a baseline result that can be compared with later changes.
3. Reproduce the exception and test one hypothesis at a time.
4. Complete the evidence record and obtain peer or instructor review.

Scenario Analysis

• Clarify the service trigger, affected components and roles, prerequisites, and acceptable result for Profiles, DEM integration, monitoring, troubleshooting, login performance, backups, upgrades, security, change control, capacity, and operational handover.
• Compare at least two implementation or correction choices and identify which evidence would distinguish them.
• Decide how combined desktop-and-application runbook and performance baseline should be reviewed, approved, retained, and handed to the next owner.

Troubleshooting Guidance

For a failure in Profiles, DEM integration, monitoring, troubleshooting, login performance, backups, upgrades, security, change control, capacity, and operational handover, separate access, configuration, compute, network, storage, integration, and timing causes. Compare the observed sequence with combined desktop-and-application runbook and performance baseline; if “application attachment sequencing increasing login duration beyond the service target” is confirmed, document why broader changes were rejected.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement for Profiles, DEM integration, monitoring, troubleshooting, login performance, backups, upgrades, security, change control, capacity, and operational handover is linked to an owner and observable acceptance condition.
• Combined desktop-and-application runbook and performance baseline contains enough detail for another practitioner to repeat the check.
• Normal operation, one boundary condition, and the identified failure path have been tested.
• Access, security, downstream impact, rollback, monitoring, and support ownership are recorded.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Profiles, DEM integration, monitoring, troubleshooting, login performance, backups, upgrades, security, change control, capacity, and operational handover, explain the decisions made, and defend the result with combined desktop-and-application runbook and performance baseline.