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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

Enhancements to the end user experience

The end user experience is the key to a successful Horizon environment, and in this latest release VMware has added more features to improve the overall experience for the end user. These features are as follows:

  • Physical PCs now support the Blast Extreme protocol.
  • Blast Extreme HEVC (H.265) video encoding support. This doubles the data compression rate but maintains the quality. NVIDIA GRID is not a requirement for this feature.
  • Support for copying and dragging and dropping files and folders for Client Drive Redirection.
  • Virtual Print feature added. This allows printing to any printer on the end user's Windows client. This feature also supports client printer redirection and location-based printing.
  • Administrators can specify whether users can open multiple instances of the same application.
  • Users can assign RDSH-published apps when...