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VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Ventresco
Book Image

VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Ventresco

Overview of this book

If you want a more detailed explanation concerning the implementation of several different core features of VMware Horizon View, this is the book for you. Whether you are new to VMware Horizon View or an existing user, this book will provide you with the knowledge you need to successfully deploy several core features and get introduced to the latest features of version 6.0 as well.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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4. Managing VMware Horizon View with PowerCLI
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Index

The VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod overview


A VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod, also known as a federated pod, consists of a set of Horizon View Connection Server instances, shared storage, a database server, and the vSphere and network infrastructures required to host desktop virtual machines.

In a traditional VMware Horizon View implementation, each pod is managed independently. With the Federated Pod Architecture feature introduced in Version 6, you can join together multiple pods to form a single Horizon View implementation called a pod federation.

A pod federation can span multiple sites or data centers and offers the following benefits over the previous single-pod model:

  • It centrally manages Horizon View desktops located across multiple data centers.

  • The desktop entitlement is managed globally, including the ability to assign desktops based on the location of the Horizon View client.

  • It has the ability to balance the Horizon View Client load across multiple data centers using centralized rather...