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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

Horizon View Administrator console UI

Now that we have successfully logged in, we will see the View Administrator console interface. The Dashboard page is the default screen.

Dashboard

The Dashboard page gives you a quick, high-level snapshot of your entire View environment, as shown in the following screenshot:

Dashboard

On the Dashboard page, you can see the key things going on in your View environment, from system health and virtual desktop machine status to how much disk space is available in your datastores. You also have a number of options under the Inventory section.

We will take a closer look at these in the following sections of this chapter.

System Health

The System Health section displays the health of your individual View infrastructure components in the form of a traffic light system: green is good, yellow is a warning (degraded), and red means something serious is wrong.

In the following screenshot, we have expanded the Connection Servers menu by clicking on the arrow next to the entry (1...

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