VMware View 4 Administration: ThinApp and Troubleshooting
Part 2 of 2 in the VMware View 4 Administration series focuses on working with ThinApp and how to monitor and troubleshoot VMware View 4.
What you'll learn
Part 2 of 2 in the VMware View 4 Administration series focuses on working with ThinApp and how to monitor and troubleshoot VMware's solution for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). This course is designed to teach administrators the knowledge and skills necessary to support a VMware View Infrastructure, includes defining, configuring, monitoring, troubleshooting and maintaining the users, pools, applications, data, and components that make up the VDI system. In order to get the most out of this course, you should have experience administering desktops. Virtualization experience is helpful, but not required.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- How ThinApp Virtualizes Applications 3m
- ThinApp Requirements and Limitations 2m
- ThinApp Packaging Machine Best Practices 3m
- Steps to Virtualizing with ThinApp 2m
- Composition of a ThinApp Package 1m
- Advanced ThinApp Concepts 3m
- Testing Packages 2m
- Creating a ThinApp Package 18m
- Dirty Testing and Clean Testing the Package 2m
- What We Covered 3m
- Introduction 1m
- Common Failure Points 5m
- Connection Procedures 2m
- How Linked Clones Work 3m
- Ports Needed for View 3m
- PCoIP Performance 3m
- Log File Locations 2m
- Collecting Diagnostic Information 2m
- Troubleshooting Problem Desktops 7m
- Investigating Linked Clones 7m
- View Log Files 7m
- Generating Support Bundles 7m
- What We Covered 3m
About the author
Brian has worked in the IT field for over 10 years in design, development and infrastructure roles. For the last seven years, he has concentrated on virtualization technologies, with a special focus on virtual desktops in the last three years. During that time, Brian co-founded the Omaha VMware Users Group, received VMware's vExpert award and sat on VMware's Partner Technical Advisory Board. Currently working as a Systems Engineer for a VMware Premier Partner, he holds the following certificatio... more