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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

General troubleshooting tips

In the first section of this chapter, we are going to briefly look at some general troubleshooting tips. We will start with looking at what the end users are reporting as issues. Is it down to a particular app or desktop configuration? If it is a performance-related issue, we need to be able to correlate that back to the supporting infrastructure components, such as which server their desktop or apps are running on, so that we can isolate host resource issues, such as a slow network or slow disk.

Look at the bigger picture

Quite often, when there are issues, it is the VDI solution that automatically gets the blame. This is because it is a new deployment, and end user perception is that, because...