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VMware Horizon View Essentials

VMware Horizon View Essentials

By : von Oven, Peter V Oven
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VMware Horizon View Essentials

VMware Horizon View Essentials

4.3 (3)
By: von Oven, Peter V Oven
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Overview of this book

If you are a desktop administrator or an end user of a computing project team looking to speed up to the latest VMware Horizon View solution, then this book is perfect for you. It is your ideal companion to deploy a solution to centrally manage and virtualize your desktop estate using Horizon View 6.0.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Introducing VDI and VMware Horizon 6.0
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1. Introducing VDI and VMware Horizon 6.0
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What is virtual desktop infrastructure?
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Server-based computing and VDI
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The benefits of deploying a VDI solution
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The VMware VDI story
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An introduction to VMware Horizon 6
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VMware Horizon 6 editions
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Summary
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2. Horizon View 6.0 Architectural and Feature Overview
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2. Horizon View 6.0 Architectural and Feature Overview
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The Horizon View core components
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The Horizon View security server
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The Horizon View replica server
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Horizon View Composer and linked clones
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View Persona Management
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Managing USB devices in a virtual desktop
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ThinApp application virtualization
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Antivirus for virtual desktop machines
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The PCoIP protocol – delivering the desktop experience
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Hardware-accelerated graphics in Horizon View
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Unified communications support
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Real-Time Audio-Video
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Horizon View Clients
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The Horizon View Standard Edition licensing
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Summary
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3. Designing and Building a Horizon View 6.0 Infrastructure
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3. Designing and Building a Horizon View 6.0 Infrastructure
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Proving the technology – from PoC to production
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Designing a Horizon 6.0 architecture
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Sizing the infrastructure
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Choosing the right client device
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An example design exercise
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4. Installing Horizon View 6.0
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4. Installing Horizon View 6.0
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Preparing for the installation
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SSL certificates for Horizon View
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Installing the Horizon View Connection Server
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Installing the View security server
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Installing the View replica server
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Installing View Composer
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Post-installation configuration tasks of the connection server
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5. A Guided Tour of the Horizon View Administrator Console
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5. A Guided Tour of the Horizon View Administrator Console
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What is Horizon View Administrator?
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Horizon View Administrator console UI
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6. Building and Optimizing Virtual Desktop Machine OS Images
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6. Building and Optimizing Virtual Desktop Machine OS Images
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Creating the virtual desktop machine
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Configuring the virtual desktop machine BIOS
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Installing VMware Tools
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Installing applications and the View Agent
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Optimizing the image
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Building a GPU-enabled virtual desktop machine
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Preparing the image for users
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Preparing the GPU-enabled virtual desktop machine
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7. Configuring Horizon View to Deliver Virtual Desktops
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7. Configuring Horizon View to Deliver Virtual Desktops
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Configuring a linked-clone desktop pool
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Entitling users to a desktop pool
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Configuring a full-clone desktop pool
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Creating a desktop pool for high-end graphics
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8. Horizon View Clients
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8. Horizon View Clients
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The Horizon View software client
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Testing the connection to the desktop
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Hardware-based clients and thin clients
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9. Fine-tuning the End User Experience
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9. Fine-tuning the End User Experience
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Active Directory prerequisites
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The PCoIP tuning tool
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A. References
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A. References
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The VMware official documentation
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The software's download pages and tools
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Index
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Index

The benefits of deploying a VDI solution

With VMware Horizon View 6.0 delivering virtual desktops, you transform your desktop environment into a centrally managed service, enhancing the end user experience and productivity at the same time. At a higher level, Horizon View 6.0 delivers the following:

  • Secure desktop environment: With centralization, you control your data and deploy policies so that no data leaves the data center, protecting your IP.
  • Centralized management: Centralizing your desktops as virtual machines not only gives you a central and single point of management, but it also allows for easier operating system or application updates as well as faster deployment of desktop resources.
  • Flexibility and scalability: This allows you to scale resources up and down quickly as per your business demands, taking into consideration peaks and troughs for seasonal or contract/project-based workers.
  • Mobility and Bring-your-own-device (BYOD): This also fits into the flexibility category, but this time allows end users to use devices that suit their needs plus they have the ability to work from anywhere. This also means that organizations don't have the expense of providing employees with hardware, and having to support that hardware.
  • Operational cost savings (OPEX): One of the things we hear all the time is that deploying VDI will reduce costs. While that is true, let's be clear that we are talking about operational costs that would potentially be reduced, but sometimes, the capital costs (CAPEX) at the beginning of a VDI project might be higher as you roll out the infrastructure. However, the overall costs over a period of time will reduce through savings in the management of the solution and the fact that you would not be caught in the typical three-year PC refresh cycle trap.

Now that we have talked about what VDI in VMware Horizon View terms is and the differences with SBC, in the next section, we are going to focus on the VMware VDI solution, Horizon View, and take a brief history lesson that covers the background story of where VMware and its VDI story began.

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