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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
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Section 3: Advanced Features, Troubleshooting, and Upgrading an Environment

Monitoring the end user experience

Once you have tuned the desktop's performance, you should consider deploying an end user experience monitoring solution to ensure that the initial experience and performance is maintained, and that the solution is running at its best.

We have already mentioned vRealize Operations for Horizon, but this tool is better for monitoring the infrastructure components rather than the end user experience.

A more focused end user experience monitoring tool would be something such as Liquidware Stratusphere UX, which goes deeper into what the end user is doing, such as application launch times and applications crashes, and gives you a complete breakdown of the login process. An example of one of the many Stratusphere dashboards is shown in the following screenshot:

The other advantage of the Liquidware solution is that Stratusphere UX is based on...