VMware Cloud Expert

Lab 01 - Accessing the Environment

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There are 3 environments you'll need to access as part of the lab:

  1. A Horizon Desktop - You will perform all lab tasks from this desktop. Although some tasks might work fine from your Personal Computing device. It is important to note that others wouldn't, where as the VDI desktop has access to the entire lab environment
  2. Below is a table listing the logins for these environments:
Attendee Name VDI
(https://44.206.117.209) 
Password: VMC2023-CM!
VMC Console
(https://vmc.vmware.com/console/sddcs)
Password: VMware1!
AWS Console
https://VMCExpert2.signin.aws.amazon.com/console
Password: VMCoct2023!
Luke Arrasmith
vmcexpert2-student01 [email protected] vmcexpert2-01
 Rajan Bhayana vmcexpert2-student02
[email protected]
vmcexpert2-02
 Corey Bonnette vmcexpert2-student03 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-03
 Aaron Good vmcexpert2-student04 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-04
 Suresh Gopu vmcexpert2-student05 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-05
 Steve Grissom vmcexpert2-student06 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-06
 Craig Harris vmcexpert2-student07 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-07
 Trey Joiner vmcexpert2-student08 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-08
 Vasudeva Kathi vmcexpert2-student09 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-09
 David Keckritz vmcexpert2-student10 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-10
 Fang Keu vmcexpert2-student11 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-11
Billy Ladd
vmcexpert2-student12 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-12
 Ralph Monis vmcexpert2-student13 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-13
 Miller Moreno vmcexpert2-student14 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-14
 Arthur Noble vmcexpert2-student15 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-15
 Russell Nurkkala vmcexpert2-student16 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-16
 Gopi Parambil vmcexpert2-student17 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-17
 Meet Kamlesh Patel vmcexpert2-student18 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-18
Rob Phillips
vmcexpert2-student19 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-19
 Thomas Proell vmcexpert2-student20 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-20
 Raj Pulla vmcexpert2-student21 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-21
 Carlos Restrepo vmcexpert2-student22 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-22
 Ian Scott vmcexpert2-student23 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-23
 George Sirepisios vmcexpert2-student24 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-24
 Shailesh Solanki vmcexpert2-student25 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-25
 Gordon Stoller vmcexpert2-student26 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-26
  Vetrivel Thirugnanasambandam vmcexpert2-student27 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-27
William Tomlinson
vmcexpert2-student28 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-28
Mauricio Villamil
vmcexpert2-student29 [email protected]
vmcexpert2-29
Jason Welch
vmcexpert2-student30 [email protected] vmcexpert2-30

vmcexpert2-student31
[email protected]
vmcexpert2-31




vmcexpert2-student32
[email protected]
vmcexpert2-I32


Log into the Cloud Services Console

  1. Using your web browser or the Horizon View Client Log into your Horizon Desktop.
    In the Browser go to https://44.206.117.209 .  Accept the certificate violation warning.  Choose from one of the 2 Options.
    NOTE the 1st option requires you to have or install the VMware Horizon Client
  2. Login using as follows:
    • Username: vmcexpert2-studentXX (where XX is your student number)
    • VMC2023-CM!
  1. Select your Desktop (VMC-MCM), this will log you into a Windows 10 Desktop.
  2. From the Windows 10 VDI Desktop, launch Google Chrome or another browser.  If you get an error "Google Chrome cannot read and write to its data directory", click OK and Chrome will proceed.  This is not a problem for the class.
  3. In the Browser access the Cloud Services Console - https://console.cloud.vmware.com
  4. Login using your VMware Cloud account:
    • Username: vmcexpert#-xx@vmware-hol.com, where is your workshop environment and xx is your student number
    • Password: VMware1!
  1. Select and open each service in a new browser tab
  2. Bookmark the tabs for future access
  3. Open Notepad ++, Copy and Paste in the Cloud Console URLs (VMC & AWS) along with your lab credentials.
    You will use it in the subsequent lab to store links, logins and other variable information

 

Never log off the VDI session (even at the end of the day. Instead simply disconnect. When you logout a refreshed desktop will be provided open your next login, meaning you will loose all of your bookmarks and saved content.

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