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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

Configuring the virtual desktop machine BIOS

Before we get on with the guest operating system installation, we will cover how to make the BIOS changes required for the virtual desktop machine that we mentioned previously.

Updating the BIOS settings

The following steps will guide you through the process of updating the BIOS:

Power on the virtual desktop machine. From vCenter, highlight the virtual desktop machine—Windows 7 Gold Image (1)—right-click on it, and then select Power On (2).
As the virtual desktop machine powers on, open a console on it. In vCenter. click on the Summary tab (3) for the virtual desktop machine, and then click on Launch Console (4).
The console will get launched as another browser window.
The virtual desktop machine will boot up into the BIOS screen on the first boot, so we can perform the BIOS configuration changes related to this being a virtual machine.
First, set the Legacy Diskette A: setting to Disabled (5) using the cursors in order to move down and highlight the...

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