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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

The Horizon View software client


The Horizon View Client is a software application that gets installed onto the end user's device, which allows them to log in and connect to their virtual desktop machine. Once logged in, the View Client displays the screen from the virtual desktop machine located in the data center onto the screen of the local client device.

The client software is available for the following platforms:

  • Microsoft Windows

  • Apple Mac

  • iOS

  • Android

  • Linux

Downloading the Horizon View Clients

The Horizon View Clients are available on the VMware download page at http://tinyurl.com/q2o98kh.

In our example, we are going to download the View Client software and save it in the shared folder.

Note

One thing to note is that the Horizon View Client software has a different release cycle from the main Horizon View software, which means that the clients are released on a more frequent basis and you don't have to wait for a full Horizon View release to take advantage of new client-based features. You...