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Omnissa Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage
HDM8 · 5 days
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OmnissaProfessional3 daysUpdated: July 2026
AVDEM8 Training for Your Team — Omnissa App Volumes and Dynamic Environment Manager
Every VDI team eventually meets the same monster: the golden image that grew a variant for every department, each needing its own patch cycle, each drifting from the others. Omnissa App Volumes and Dynamic Environment Manager is the course about killing that monster — separating applications and user personality from the operating system so one clean image can serve an entire workforce.
Participants learn to package applications as attachable volumes, manage their lifecycle without image rebuilds, decide when writable volumes are justified, and drive user profiles and policy through Dynamic Environment Manager so a non-persistent desktop still feels personal. Combined with Horizon instant clones, this is the architecture that makes stateless VDI genuinely operable — and the course assumes you already run Horizon at Deploy-and-Manage level.
We organize delivery through authorized partners under the current Omnissa structure — live online in your time zone, on site, or as a private group, with your application portfolio shaping the lab emphasis where that helps.
Who this course is for
- Horizon administrators moving from monolithic golden images to layered delivery
- EUC engineers who own application packaging and user-environment policy
- Teams fighting image sprawl — one image per department is not a strategy
- Desktop teams standardizing user experience across VDI, RDSH and physical machines
What your team will learn
Topic areas below are grouped in our own words. The full official agenda is available on request — it comes from the authorized partner as part of your quote.
- Packaging applications as volumes — delivery in seconds instead of image rebuilds
- Application lifecycle: updating packages without touching the golden image
- Writable volumes: giving users persistence on non-persistent desktops, deliberately
- Dynamic Environment Manager: profiles and policy that follow the user, not the machine
- Combining app attach with instant clones — the architecture that makes stateless VDI livable
- Troubleshooting attachment and profile issues before they become login-time complaints
Key facts
| Duration | 3 days |
|---|---|
| Level | Professional |
| Prerequisites | Horizon 8 administration experience and solid Windows desktop administration |
| Formats | Live online (VILT), On-site at your location, Private group, Seats in scheduled groups |
| Languages | English + local-language instructors on request |
Formats and how we organize it
- Live online (VILT)
- On-site at your location
- Private group
- Seats in scheduled groups
One request → three options
Fill in the form below — it takes a couple of minutes. Within 5 business days you compare 2–3 concrete offers — provider, instructor, dates, price below the public list. We contract and administer the delivery end to end. Details:how we work and vendor training.
AVDEM8 vs alternatives: which to choose
Factual criteria only — level, duration, audience and certification. The right choice depends on your team's starting point and stack.
Omnissa Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage (HDM8)
The platform course: pools, publishing and Horizon operations. Take it first — App Volumes and DEM sit on top of a running Horizon estate, and this course assumes you already operate one.
Omnissa Horizon 8: Infrastructure Administration and Troubleshooting (HIAT8)
Deepens the server and infrastructure side of Horizon. Choose HIAT8 when the challenge is scaling and diagnosing the platform; AVDEM8 when it is application delivery and user-environment management on top of it. Many teams take both.
A custom intensive
Untangling a specific image-sprawl problem? A custom program can work through your actual application portfolio — packaging order, writable-volume policy and a target image architecture — rather than the generic curriculum.
Need only part of AVDEM8?
If your team needs a subset of this program — or a mix of topics from several courses — we build a custom 2–4 day intensive on our own materials, shaped by your infrastructure. One custom program typically replaces 2–3 catalog courses.
Explore custom coursesAVDEM8: frequently asked questions
What problem do App Volumes and DEM actually solve?
Golden-image sprawl and login-time chaos. App Volumes delivers applications as attachable volumes so one clean image serves many user groups; Dynamic Environment Manager applies profile and policy settings per user. Together they make non-persistent, instant-clone VDI practical for real workforces.
Do we need this course if we already run Horizon?
If applications are baked into golden images and every department demands its own image, yes — this is precisely the skill set that breaks that cycle. Horizon Deploy and Manage covers where these tools fit; this course teaches actually running them.
Does the course cover writable volumes?
Yes, including the design judgment they require: which users genuinely need persistence, what belongs in a writable volume versus DEM policy, and the operational care writable volumes demand. The lab work covers creation, assignment and troubleshooting.
These were VMware products — what changed under Omnissa?
App Volumes and Dynamic Environment Manager moved to Omnissa with the rest of the former VMware end-user-computing portfolio. The products, architecture and skills are continuous; training and support are simply provided under the Omnissa name now.
How do we organize AVDEM8 training?
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