VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook - Second Edition

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VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Ventresco

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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.

Preface

The ever-evolving VMware Horizon family of products

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. VMware Horizon View Architecture Fundamentals

1. VMware Horizon View Architecture Fundamentals

Identifying why we need VMware Horizon with View

Understanding the risks of end user computing

Understanding how our desktop configuration impacts our design

Determining our Horizon View desktop infrastructure's requirements

Analyzing our Horizon with View environment

2. Implementing a VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod

2. Implementing a VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod

The VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod overview

Federated Pod's port requirements

Configuring a VMware Horizon View Federated Pod

Entitling users or groups in a Horizon View Federated Pod

Assigning users and groups to Horizon View sites

Reviewing your Horizon View Federated Pod configuration

Modifying Horizon View Federated Pod objects

Removing objects from your Federated Pod or global entitlements

Disabling the Horizon View Cloud Pod Architecture feature

3. Horizon View Installation, Backup, and Recovery Using the CLI

3. Horizon View Installation, Backup, and Recovery Using the CLI

Automating the installation of Horizon View Connection Servers

Automating the installation of Horizon View Composer

Performing Horizon View Connection Server backups

Performing Horizon View Connection Server recoveries

Performing a Horizon View Composer backup

Performing Horizon View Composer recoveries

4. Managing VMware Horizon View with PowerCLI

4. Managing VMware Horizon View with PowerCLI

Retrieving the Horizon View license information

Enabling remote management on Windows

Establishing a remote Horizon View PowerCLI session

Viewing all the PowerCLI commands and their options

Managing desktop pools with PowerCLI

Creating an automatically provisioned linked-clone desktop pool

Creating an automatically provisioned full-clone desktop pool

Creating a manually provisioned desktop pool

Creating a manual unmanaged desktop pool

Creating a Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) pool

Updating the Horizon View pools

Creating a network label specification

Exporting network label specifications for linked-clone pools

Exporting network label specifications for full-clone pools

Retrieving the Horizon View Composer Server information

Retrieving a list of the Horizon View desktop pools

Removing desktop pools

Entitling a desktop pool

Entitling or unentitling an individual desktop

Reviewing the desktop pool entitlement

Refreshing a linked-clone desktop or pool

Recomposing a linked-clone desktop pool

Rebalancing a linked-clone desktop pool

Updating the Horizon View global settings

Updating the Horizon View connection broker settings

Adding a vCenter Server to Horizon View

Removing a vCenter Server from Horizon View

Updating the settings of vCenter Server that is linked to Horizon View

Monitoring the remote Horizon View sessions

Resetting a Horizon View desktop

Disconnecting the Horizon View Client session

Logging Off the Horizon View Client Session

Configuring the Horizon View license

Retrieving the global Horizon View configuration data

Retrieving the Horizon View connection broker information

Retrieving a list of virtual machines managed by Horizon View

Retrieving a list of physical machines

Retrieving the AD user or group Information

Retrieving information about persistent data disks

Retrieving the Horizon View event reports and their descriptions

Retrieving the Horizon View event reports

Retrieving the Horizon View infrastructure's health monitors and their status

Retrieving a list of the vCenter Servers linked to the Horizon View environment

Retrieving a list of the Windows RDS Servers registered with Horizon View

Retrieving the Horizon View license information

5. Implementation of Horizon View Persona Management

5. Implementation of Horizon View Persona Management

Implementing Horizon View Persona Management

Configuring Horizon View Persona Management's advanced options

6. Delivering Applications Using VMware ThinApp

6. Delivering Applications Using VMware ThinApp

Deploying VMware ThinApp

Capturing an application with ThinApp

Updating ThinApp packages

Configuring a Horizon View ThinApp repository

Assigning ThinApp applications in Horizon View

Removing ThinApp assignments

7. Deploying Horizon View Clients in Kiosk Mode

7. Deploying Horizon View Clients in Kiosk Mode

Preparing your VMware Horizon View and Microsoft AD infrastructures for Kiosk Mode Clients

Configuring the default values for Kiosk Mode Clients

Adding AD accounts for Kiosk Mode Clients

Verifying the configuration of Kiosk Mode Clients

Configuring Kiosk Mode Horizon View Client devices

8. vRealize Operations for Horizon

8. vRealize Operations for Horizon

Implementing vRealize Operations for Horizon

Monitoring Horizon View client sessions using V4V

Monitoring the Horizon View infrastructure using V4V

Using the V4V Horizon View Dashboards

9. Using VMware Mirage with Horizon View

9. Using VMware Mirage with Horizon View

Specifying the Mirage server name in Horizon View

Installing the Mirage client

Capturing a Mirage base layer

Capturing an application using Mirage

Centralizing Horizon View desktops using Mirage

Creating Mirage collections

Installing applications using Mirage

Upgrading the Horizon View desktop OS using Mirage

10. Implementing VMware Virtual SAN for Horizon View

10. Implementing VMware Virtual SAN for Horizon View

Sizing a Horizon View environment for VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN)

Enabling VMware Virtual SAN

Using VSAN with VMware Horizon View

11. Implementing Application Streaming Using Windows Remote Desktop Services

11. Implementing Application Streaming Using Windows Remote Desktop Services

Configuring the Windows RDS server for use with Horizon View

Creating an RDS farm in Horizon View

Creating an RDS application pool in Horizon View

Using the Horizon View Client to access RDS-streamed applications

Monitoring the status of RDS hosts and sessions in Horizon View

Modifying an RDS application pool in Horizon View

Modifying an RDS farm or server in Horizon View

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Refreshing a linked-clone desktop or pool

The Send-LinkedCloneRefresh command is used to refresh either a specific linked-clone desktop or an entire desktop pool.

How to do it…

The following example command selects all the desktops in the FinanceLC1 pool and schedules them to refresh at the indicated time. In addition, the operation will continue even if an error occurs but will not force users to log off:
```
Get-Pool -Pool_id "FinanceLC1" | Get-DesktopVM | Send-LinkedCloneRefresh -schedule "2014-07-25 18:00" -StopOnError $false -ForceLogoff $false
```
To refresh just a single desktop, you can use a simpler version of the command that requires only the machine ID and the schedule:
```
Send-LinkedCloneRefresh -Machine_id (Get-DesktopVM -Name "ViewLC0001").machine_id -schedule "2014-07-25 18:00"
```
This command will refresh only the desktop named ViewLC0001.

How it works…

When using the Send-LinkedCloneRefresh command to refresh an entire pool, the command requires us to specify each desktop within the pool...