Course Information
Course Overview
The HPE Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Solutions course is a self-paced training that is approximately 20 hours of self-directed content. It includes study material and activities in the ratio of approximately 15% activities and 85% study. Given a scenario, you will learn to design HPE-driven VDI solutions. You will learn to investigate customers’ desired VDI outcomes and recommend the appropriate solution.
Ideal candidate for this course
This course is targeted to solution architects who have experience designing and implementing complex solutions and want to validate their knowledge and skills to use and deploy HPE VDI solutions. Candidates typically define and propose solutions based on an analysis of their desired business outcomes and technical needs.
What You’ll Learn
Introduction to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
- VDI use cases and definitions
- High-level of HPE solutions for VDI
Understand the Customer’s VDI Requirements
- Determine user and workload requirements
- Plan GPUs
- Determine requirements for availability, backups, security, networking, and services
Design HPE Solutions for Citrix
- Introduction to Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops architecture and concepts
- Image provisioning and management with Citrix
- Options for enhancing the Citrix solutions (such as Citrix ADC, Citrix Profile Management, Citrix Workspace Environment Management, and 3rd party integration)
- Citrix licensing
- Design HPE solutions for the Citrix control components
- Design HPE compute and storage solutions for hosting VMs
- Example designs based on HPE Reference Architectures (RAs)
Design HPE Solution for VMware Horizon
- Introduction to VMware Horizon concepts and architecture
- Image provisioning and management with Horizon
- Horizon licensing
- Design HPE solutions for the Horizon control components
- Design HPE compute and storage solutions for Horizon desktops pools
- Example designs based on HPE RAs
HPE GreenLake for VDI
- Introduction to HPE GreenLake and as-a-service (aaS) in general
- Use cases for HPE GreenLake for VDI
- HPE GreenLake for VDI offerings
- HPE GreenLake for VDI benefits
Present the HPE VDI Solution
- Guidelines for running a successful PoC
- Guidelines for explaining solution benefits, including references to HPE Financial tools
- Differentiate HPE solutions from the competition