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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

Chapter 9. Delivering Session-Based Desktops with Horizon View

Following on from the previous chapter, where we configured Horizon View to deliver hosted applications using a Microsoft RDSH environment, in this chapter, we will cover the other half of View's hosting functionality and take a look at the ability of View to deliver session-based desktops, again, using a Microsoft RDSH host server. The key advantage of this feature is that you don't need to deploy a full VDI-based desktop to an end user, they just use a session from the host.

As with the hosted applications feature we covered in Chapter 8, Delivering Remote Applications with View Hosted Apps, the desktop sessions will be delivered to the end user's device using the Horizon View Client. We will cover the installation of the RDSH role and the configuration of the desktop sessions.