Book Image

Implementing VMware Horizon 7.7 - Third Edition

By : Jason Ventresco
Book Image

Implementing VMware Horizon 7.7 - Third Edition

By: Jason Ventresco

Overview of this book

This third edition of Implementing VMware Horizon 7.7 has been updated to get you up to speed with VMware Horizon 7.7 by showing you how to use its key features and deploying an end-user computing infrastructure for your own organization. The book begins by guiding you on how to deploy all the core requirements for a VMware Horizon infrastructure. It then moves on to show you how to provision and administer end-user computing resources using VMware Horizon. You’ll not only be able to deploy the core VMware Horizon features, but you’ll also be able to implement new features, such as the Just-in-Time Management Platform (JMP) and the Horizon Console. You’ll also focus on the latest features and components of the Horizon platform and learn when and how they are used. By the end of the book, you will have developed a solid understanding of how your organization can benefit from the capabilities VMware Horizon offers and how each of its components is implemented.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Deploying a Horizon Unified Access Gateway

The procedure used to deploy a Horizon Unified Access Gateway can be broken down into the following stages:

  • Infrastructure preparation, as outlined in the previous section of this chapter
  • Using the Horizon Administrator console to reconfigure the Connection Server client settings
  • Using the VMware PowerShell UAG deployment scripts to deploy the Unified Access Gateway appliances

Configuring the Connection Servers

A Horizon Unified Access Gateway provides secure gateway and tunneling capabilities for external client connections. For external Horizon client connections to connect to their destination desktops and Windows RDS servers on the internal network, it is necessary to disable...