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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

Creating the virtual desktop machine


The most obvious thing we need to do first is create a virtual desktop machine. For this, we will use our vCenter Server and once created, we will install the desktop operating system.

Note

Make sure that you don't simply convert a physical machine to virtual machine. A best practice is to create a brand new virtual desktop machine from the ground up. This way, you don't end up with physical-based elements in your image that might cause performance issues.

Typically, a physical image will have been updated and patched numerous times and will have become bloated and might contain some old "rubbish". Virtualizing it means that we will end up with a bloated VM and virtualized rubbish.

Once we have our virtual desktop machine built and installed, we will run through the optimization process.

Creating the virtual machine in the vCenter Server

Log in to the vCenter Server using the vSphere Web Client with your administrator username and password, as shown in the...