VMware Horizon 8: Virtual Desktop Bootcamp

Course Description

VMware Horizon 8: Virtual Desktop Bootcamp develops hands-on understanding of Horizon architecture, connection servers, unified access gateways, protocols, Installation, broker configuration, UAG deployment. Learners move from requirements and dependencies to implementation, validation, troubleshooting, and supportable VMware operations.

Later lessons examine RDS farms, published applications, profiles, Dynamic Environment Manager, Help Desk Tool, monitoring, logs. Participants use bootcamp architecture plan and prerequisite checklist, Horizon deployment record and user login acceptance test, application-and-profile delivery test with persona evidence, virtual desktop operations runbook and support simulation to distinguish configuration, access, network, storage, performance, and lifecycle issues rather than treating them as one generic failure.

After the four lessons, learners can help establish a practical Horizon 8 virtual-desktop environment that combines secure access, automated desktop provisioning, application delivery, personalization, user support, and operational monitoring. They also document follow-up actions for performance, security, lifecycle, support, and adoption.

What You Will Learn

• Explain how Horizon architecture, connection servers, and unified access gateways establish the technical foundation and influence later design decisions.
• Configure protocols, clients, agents, directory services, certificates, networks, storage, and deployment planning, then confirm readiness through bootcamp architecture plan and prerequisite checklist instead of relying on completion messages alone.
• Execute a controlled workflow covering Installation, broker configuration, and UAG deployment, preserving prerequisites, changes, and resulting service behavior.
• Read Horizon deployment record and user login acceptance test to isolate an instant-clone pool failing because the image snapshot hierarchy changed, separate symptoms from causes, and choose a correction that can be safely retested.
• Integrate RDS farms, published applications, and profiles with access, capacity, resilience, and downstream operational expectations.
• Challenge Dynamic Environment Manager, App Volumes concepts, policies, USB and printing controls, client settings, and user experience using normal and boundary cases, then defend the outcome with application-and-profile delivery test with persona evidence.
• Investigate a login delay being escalated without separating broker, profile, application, and storage timings by reviewing Help Desk Tool, monitoring, and logs before applying a reversible fix.
• Prepare virtual desktop operations runbook and support simulation that demonstrates performance, capacity, troubleshooting, backup, upgrades, security hardening, documentation, and operational handover and supports handover, monitoring, governance, and the next improvement decision.

SkillDynamo Training Approach

Training uses instructor walkthroughs, hands-on implementation, role-based exercises, boundary testing, troubleshooting drills, review checkpoints, and structured handover. Learners practise explaining why a result is acceptable rather than merely showing that a task completed.