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VMware Horizon View Essentials

By : von Oven, Peter V Oven
Book Image

VMware Horizon View Essentials

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.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Index

What is Horizon View Administrator?

The Horizon View Administrator is a web-based management console that is used to manage your View environment. It allows you to configure your infrastructure components as well as deploy your desktop pools and manage user entitlements.

Now that we have installed the connection server and other View infrastructure components (discussed in the previous chapters), we are going to connect to the View Administrator using the browser on our desktop.

To log in to the connection server, type the following URL into your browser:

https://hzn6-cs1.pvolab.com/admin

You will now see the login page displayed:

What is Horizon View Administrator?

Log in using the administrator account and password, and select the domain from the drop-down menu. In our example, we are using the PVOLAB domain.