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Mastering VMware Horizon 7.8 - Third Edition

By : Peter von Oven, Barry Coombs
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Mastering VMware Horizon 7.8 - Third Edition

By: Peter von Oven, Barry Coombs

Overview of this book

Desktop virtualization can be tough, but VMware Horizon 7.8 changes all that. With a rich and adaptive UX, improved security,and a range of useful features for storage and networking optimization, there's plenty to love. But to properly fall in love with it, you need to know how to use it, and that means venturing deeper into the software and taking advantage of its extensive range of features, many of which are underused and underpromoted. This guide will take you through everything you need to know to not only successfully virtualize your desktop infrastructure, but also to maintain and optimize it to keep all your users happy. We'll show you how to assess and analyze your infrastructure, and how to use that analysis to design a solution that meets your organizational and user needs. Once you've done that, you'll find out how to build your virtualized environment, before deploying your virtualized solution. But more than that,we'll also make sure you know everything you need to know about the full range of features on offer, including the mobile cloud, so that you can use them to take full control of your virtualized infrastructure.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Installation and Configuration
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Section 2: Building and Delivering the Virtual Desktop Experience
13
Section 3: Advanced Features, Troubleshooting, and Upgrading an Environment

Reviewing the infrastructure post-deployment

So, with the desktop pools created and the virtual desktop machines built and running, now is a good time to go back and review the infrastructure to check that everything is running as expected before you start adding end users and allowing them to log in. This is just to make sure your sizing of resources is as you expected it to be, but it also gives you another opportunity to tweak anything before it's too late and you have live users logged in.

Ideally, you should compare the assessment data with the current data from your environment. Back in Chapter 3, Design and Deployment Considerations, we looked at Liquidware Stratusphere as a solution for this, as not only will it give us the assessment data, it will also provide data on the infrastructure performance and will be useful in the next section when we come to fine-tuning...