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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)

Creating a Microsoft RDS farm in Horizon

This section will discuss the steps that are required to create a linked, clone-based RDS farm in Horizon.

There are many additional options for creating RDS farms in Horizon, including the ability to deploy RDS servers as instant clones. Refer to the Horizon documentation (https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Horizon-7/index.html) for a detailed listing of all available RDS farm deployment options.

An RDS farm is a collection of Microsoft RDS servers, and serves as the point of integration between the Connection Server and the individual applications that are installed on each RDS server. Additionally, key settings concerning client session handling and client-connection protocols are set at the RDS farm level within Horizon.

Many of the options that we will look at in this section are similar to those that are seen when we deployed linked...