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Mastering VMware Horizon 7.8 - Third Edition

By : Peter von Oven, Barry Coombs
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Mastering VMware Horizon 7.8 - Third Edition

By: Peter von Oven, Barry Coombs

Overview of this book

Desktop virtualization can be tough, but VMware Horizon 7.8 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 and 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 it 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 the mobile cloud, so that you can use them to take full control of your virtualized infrastructure.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Installation and Configuration
7
Section 2: Building and Delivering the Virtual Desktop Experience
13
Section 3: Advanced Features, Troubleshooting, and Upgrading an Environment

Configuring and Managing Desktop Pools - Part 1

Now that you have prepared a number of desktop images in the previous chapter, the next step is to configure desktop pools that will deliver these desktops to the end users, and so, in this chapter, we will look at how to create and manage desktop pools within Horizon View.

To recap, desktop pools are collections of one or more virtual desktop machines that have similar attributes. By this, we mean that they have the same operating system versions, applications, memory, CPU, or other configuration.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Automated desktop pools
  • Creating a manual desktop pool
  • Managing Linked Clone desktop pools
  • Reviewing the infrastructure post-deployment