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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
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Preface

App Volumes prerequisites


A production installation of App Volumes will require the following items:

  • App Volumes appliance Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) file, license file, client agent installers, and AppCapture installer

  • Static IP addresses and pre-created DNS entries for each of the App Volumes Manager servers

  • A provisioning computer, deployed as a virtual machine, running the same OS as the App Volumes clients; multiple provisioning computers will be required if you use more than one desktop or Windows RDS OS version

  • App Volumes Agent supported OSs

    • Windows 7 or newer (for use as a desktop OS)

    • Windows 2008 R2 or newer (for use as an RDS server)

  • A local account with the required permissions on each Horizon desktop ESXi host; the App Volumes Manager uses this account to mount VMDK files to desktops

    • The same password must be used on all accounts, and for security purposes it is not recommended to use the ESXi root account

    • An account named appvol will be used in the examples provided.

    • The permissions...