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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 (17 chapters)
VMware Horizon View Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Optimizing the image


In this section, we are going to look at two ways of optimizing the virtual desktop machine. One is a manual, script-based process and the other uses an optimization application with a GUI-driven console. You might want to review what gets removed or switched off in order to ensure that the virtual desktop machine has the features you require and behaves as expected.

Optimizing the image using the commands.bat process

The commands.bat file is found as an attachment to the VMware View Optimization Guide, which can be downloaded from the VMware website using :http://tinyurl.com/7rzfw6b. Then, follow the next set of steps:

  1. Once downloaded, open the document in Adobe Reader and save the embedded files as follows. Click on the paperclip icon (1) to show the document attachments.

  2. Right-click on the file you want to save, and click on Save Attachment. In this example, we are going to save the files to the \\hzn6-dc1\Shared Folder\View 6.0\ shared folder. Repeat this for all of...