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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have built several virtual desktop machine images that will act as the parent images from which all the virtual desktop machines in the environment will be created.

To build the virtual desktop machines, we outlined a process to follow a process in which you started by creating the virtual hardware containers, installing the guest operating systems, optimizing them to run as Horizon View virtual desktop machines, and then prepared them by creating either templates or snapshots ready to be used to create virtual desktop machines to be delivered to the end users.

In the next chapter, we will configure the View Administrator and create the desktop pools, ready to deliver our virtual desktop machines to our end users, which will allow them to connect and start using the different virtual desktop machines.