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Mastering VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition

By : Barry Coombs
Book Image

Mastering VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition

By: Barry Coombs

Overview of this book

Desktop virtualization can be a bit of a headache. But VMware Horizon 7 changes all that. With a rich and adaptive UX, improved security and a range of useful features for storage and networking optimization, there’s plenty to love. But to properly fall in love with it, you need to know how to use it. And that means venturing deeper into the software, taking advantage of its extensive range of features, many of which are underused and underpromoted. This guide will take you through everything you need to know to not only successfully virtualize your desktop infrastructure but also to maintain and optimize the infrastructure to keep all your users happy. We’ll show you how to assess and analyze your infrastructure, and how to use that analysis to design a solution that meets your organizational and user needs. Once you’ve done that, you’ll find out how to build your virtualized environment, before deploying your virtualized solution. But more than that, we’ll also make sure you know everything you need to know about the full range of features on offer, including mobile cloud, so you can use them to take full control of your virtualized infrastructure.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Technology choices


With VMware Horizon, there is no one-product-fits-all solution to your users' needs, so it is important to consider the use cases and match the different use cases to the different technologies within the VMware Horizon portfolio. Once you have collected the key information from the methods mentioned earlier, it is important to come to a conclusion on which technology is going to meet the users' needs the best. You have several different technologies available to deliver the desktops to the end users—technologies such as Horizon View, Horizon Mirage, ThinApp, and App Volumes.

In the following sections, we will discuss some sample scenarios and the decisions we could make based upon these scenarios.

Example scenario 1

In this example, there are a number of users based in a call center utilizing a Windows desktop to access a customer relationship database. They are also using a web browser to access an intranet page. These users work set hours in a shift pattern across the...