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Implementing VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition

By : Jason Ventresco
Book Image

Implementing VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition

By: Jason Ventresco

Overview of this book

VMware Horizon 7 has been a buzz since it was announced. One of the major reasons is the introduction of the new Instant Clones feature. This book will complement the product documentation by providing real-life examples of how it is implemented along with the latest features and components of the platform. We'll explore the latest features of the platform, including those added through product acquisitions such as User Environment Manager and App Volumes. Further on, you will also be introduced to the new capabilities added to the core product such Linked-Clone RDS pools. Upon completion of this book, you will have an understanding of the capabilities and benefits VMware Horizon can provide to your organization, and how each of its components are implemented.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Implementing VMware Horizon 7 Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Managing Horizon maintenance tasks


Ongoing or scheduled refresh, recompose, or rebalance tasks can be paused, resumed from a pause, or canceled at any time using the Horizon Administrator console. When a maintenance task is canceled or paused, any operations currently underway will finish, but no new operations will start. When a paused task is resumed, the maintenance operation will continue.

  • The resources required to perform Horizon maintenance tasks may impact the performance of the Horizon infrastructure. If Horizon maintenance tasks are causing performance problems for Horizon desktops currently in use, or for other resources that share the infrastructure, simply pause the maintenance task. Resume the maintenance task during a period of reduced infrastructure utilization.

  • I do not recommend canceling maintenance tasks, as this may leave the desktops in an inconsistent state; if the maintenance operation is causing performance issues, simply pause until a more suitable time to resume can...