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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

App Volumes overview


Chapter 1, VMWare Horizon View Infrastructure Overview, provided an overview of most of the key features of VMware App Volumes. To summarize that information, VMware App Volumes can be used to decouple applications from Horizon desktops and Windows RDS servers, be they user-installed or ones packages and assigned by App Volumes administrators. The following diagram explains the conceptual relationship between the Horizon desktop and the Windows RDS server OS, the App Volumes Agent, and the AppStacks and Writable Volumes.

Tip

RDS servers used with Horizon application streaming cannot use Writable Volumes, nor would they need them since Horizon clients using that feature don't have the ability to install applications on the hosting server.

The capabilities enabled by App Volumes are transparent to the client, as shown in the following screenshot, which shows the client view from Windows Explorer for a Horizon desktop, next to the virtual desktop hard disk configuration as...