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VMware Horizon View Essentials

By : von Oven, Peter V Oven

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VMware Horizon View Essentials

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By: von Oven, Peter V Oven

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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Introducing VDI and VMware Horizon 6.0

1. Introducing VDI and VMware Horizon 6.0

What is virtual desktop infrastructure?

Server-based computing and VDI

The benefits of deploying a VDI solution

The VMware VDI story

An introduction to VMware Horizon 6

VMware Horizon 6 editions

Summary

2. Horizon View 6.0 Architectural and Feature Overview

2. Horizon View 6.0 Architectural and Feature Overview

The Horizon View core components

The Horizon View security server

The Horizon View replica server

Horizon View Composer and linked clones

View Persona Management

Managing USB devices in a virtual desktop

ThinApp application virtualization

Antivirus for virtual desktop machines

The PCoIP protocol – delivering the desktop experience

Hardware-accelerated graphics in Horizon View

Unified communications support

Real-Time Audio-Video

Horizon View Clients

The Horizon View Standard Edition licensing

Summary

3. Designing and Building a Horizon View 6.0 Infrastructure

3. Designing and Building a Horizon View 6.0 Infrastructure

Proving the technology – from PoC to production

Designing a Horizon 6.0 architecture

Sizing the infrastructure

Choosing the right client device

An example design exercise

Summary

4. Installing Horizon View 6.0

4. Installing Horizon View 6.0

Preparing for the installation

SSL certificates for Horizon View

Installing the Horizon View Connection Server

Installing the View security server

Installing the View replica server

Installing View Composer

Post-installation configuration tasks of the connection server

Summary

5. A Guided Tour of the Horizon View Administrator Console

5. A Guided Tour of the Horizon View Administrator Console

What is Horizon View Administrator?

Horizon View Administrator console UI

Summary

6. Building and Optimizing Virtual Desktop Machine OS Images

6. Building and Optimizing Virtual Desktop Machine OS Images

Creating the virtual desktop machine

Configuring the virtual desktop machine BIOS

Installing VMware Tools

Installing applications and the View Agent

Optimizing the image

Building a GPU-enabled virtual desktop machine

Preparing the image for users

Preparing the GPU-enabled virtual desktop machine

Summary

7. Configuring Horizon View to Deliver Virtual Desktops

7. Configuring Horizon View to Deliver Virtual Desktops

Configuring a linked-clone desktop pool

Entitling users to a desktop pool

Configuring a full-clone desktop pool

Creating a desktop pool for high-end graphics

Summary

8. Horizon View Clients

8. Horizon View Clients

The Horizon View software client

Testing the connection to the desktop

Hardware-based clients and thin clients

Summary

9. Fine-tuning the End User Experience

9. Fine-tuning the End User Experience

Active Directory prerequisites

The PCoIP tuning tool

Summary

A. References

A. References

The VMware official documentation

The software's download pages and tools

Summary

Index

Index

ThinApp application virtualization

As part of the Horizon View Standard Edition license, ThinApp is also included. Discussing ThinApp in great detail is a whole book in itself, so in this section, we are just going to skim the surface and give you a very high-level overview of the product.

ThinApp is an application virtualization or application-packaging solution that abstracts applications from the underlying operating systems, which is a bit like how a hypervisor decouples an operating system from the physical hardware. However, now we have moved up a level and are looking at separating applications from the operating systems.

So, why do I need ThinApp?

It's designed to eliminate the application conflict and streamline the application delivery and management. One of the key use cases is to deliver applications that might not run or be supported on your operating system version.

An example of this is running Internet Explorer 6 on Windows 7, where IE6 will only run on Windows XP. However, by...

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