VMware View 9 Day Bootcamp

VMware are releasing a 9 day VMware View Bootcamp Series covering all aspects of virtual desktops.

There will be 9 videos, each video released daily starting on the 19th July.

Topics covered over the 9 days are :-

Day 1 – Design Considerations Guidelines for VMware View – Overview

• Speaker – John Dodge, Sr. Manager PSO Services, VMware
• Overview of the technical considerations to keep in mind while you’re designing a View environment

Day 2 – Storage Deep Dive – Considerations and Best Practices

• Speaker – Jim Yanik, Sr. Systems Engineer, VMware
• How to design your storage infrastructure to fit your environment
• Sizing and workload considerations

Day 3 – Network Considerations and Best Practices

• Speaker – Shannon McFarland; Consulting Engineer for Data Center technologies and Enterprise IPv6 design on Cisco’s Consulting Engineering team in the Office of the CTO, Cisco
• Network requirements for LAN and WAN
• Bandwidth requirements deep dive
• Security considerations – Security Server, AV, Encryption, Authentication

Day 4 – Optimizing the Base Image for VMware View

• Speaker – Todd Dayton, Staff Product Manager, Desktop Product Management, VMware
• How to build and tune your desktop image
• User and workload considerations
• OS specific tips (XP, Win7)

Day 5 – Delivering Applications

• Speaker – Heath Doer, Sr Systems Engineer, VMware
• Packaging and updates (applink and appsync)
• Best practices-storage, image management and application deployment
• Application migration, application conflict and compatibility

Day 6 – PCoIP Implementation Overview and PCoIP Tuning Best Practices

• Speaker – Chuck Hirstius, PSO, WW Advanced Services, VMware
• How to optimize PCoIP for different types of workloads
• How to optimize for LAN, mobile and remote users
• Bandwidth requirements

Day 7 – Automating View 4.5 with Powershell

• Speaker – Tom Elliot, Sr. MTS, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
• Introduction to View PowerCLI
• Setting up an environment and basic tasks
• Creating your own scripts
• Integrating with vSphere

Day 8 – Leveraging Security Server for PCoIP

• Speaker – Mark Benson, View Architect, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
• Introduction to Security Server

Day 9 – VMware View’s Reference Architecture

• Speaker – Mac Binesh, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
• Review of RA for stateless desktops
• Description of test environment, equipment and lab results