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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)
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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

Upgrading the VMware Horizon Agent

Upgrading the Horizon Agent is probably one of the simplest tasks of the upgrade process. You are going to need to upgrade the agents in all of your golden images and then, if you are using Linked Clones, recompose the desktop pools.

With non-persistent desktops, this is a relatively simple task of upgrading the agent, taking a new snapshot, and recomposing all the pools. With persistent desktops, you may need to take further consideration of the effect of recomposing the pool, or, alternatively, look at manually upgrading the agent on each virtual desktop machine, or deploy an applications deployment tool.

You also need to consider that the Horizon Agent may be installed on an RDSH host server used for delivering desktop sessions and View hosted applications. For this, you will need to schedule time where you can take host machines out of the...