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Implementing VMware Horizon 7.7 - Third Edition

By : Jason Ventresco
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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)

Horizon Cloud Pod overview

A VMware Horizon Cloud Pod consists of an integrated set of Horizon pods, which may or may not be located within the same datacenter, and which clients are entitled to, and can, access as if it were a single pod. Prior to the introduction of the Cloud Pod feature, each pod was entitled and accessed separately, which made it difficult to deploy a multi-site Horizon architecture that appeared as a single pod to Horizon clients.

Cloud Pods are mostly used with floating assignment desktop pools or application pools. If you use dedicated assignment pools, be aware that once a user has been assigned a desktop, they will always return to that desktop for subsequent client connections. This would negate most of the reasons why we use Cloud Pods, which are meant to provide access to Horizon resources across multiple sites or pods, using methods that are transparent...