VMware End User Computing: Design

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

VMWare EUC Design Methodology

• Recognize the characteristics of a good design.
• Identify the phases of VMware EUC Design Methodology

Presenting Solutions to Executive Management

• Identify behaviors that can affect team performance negatively
• List common mistakes when working in a team
• Describe how to tailor a presentation to the company’s values, and stakeholders’ backgrounds and roles
• List questions you should ask to identify how to address a problem a client is trying to solve

Infrastructure Assessment and Services Definition

• Define customer business objective
• Define a use case for your virtual desktop and application infrastructure
• Convert customer requirements to use-case attributes

Horizon Architecture and Components

• Determine the components required for a Horizon on-premises or Horizon Cloud deployment
• Implement the design considerations and recommendations for various Horizon components
• Analyze the use-case scenarios for various the Horizon deployment options

Component Design: Horizon Pods

• Design a single-site Horizon desktop block and pod configuration for a given use case
• Design Cloud Pod Architecture for multisite pool access
• Design Control Plane Services Architecture for multisite pool access

Component Design: App Volumes and Dynamic Environment Manager

• Identify the functionalities of the components in App Volumes Logical Architecture
• Implement the recommended practices when designing an application delivery mechanism using App Volumes

Component Design: Workspace ONE

• Map the Horizon desktop building block and the Horizon management building block to VMware vSphere.
• Identify factors and design decisions that determine the sizing for ESXi hosts

Workspace ONE & Horizon Infrastructure Design

• Design the environment resources required to support a Workspace ONE and Horizon deployment
• Identify factors and design decisions that determine the sizing for ESXi host
• Discuss the factors that determine the sizing for shared storage
• Identify the design decisions related to bandwidth utilization
• Discuss the implications of using load balancing and traffic management
• Identify factors and design decisions that determine the sizing of the Azure pods

Design Integration and Delivery

• List the platform components that needs to be integrated along with their dependent services.
• Integrate Workspace ONE and Horizon platform components.