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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
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Section 2: Building and Delivering the Virtual Desktop Experience
13
Section 3: Advanced Features, Troubleshooting, and Upgrading an Environment

Managing Linked Clone desktop pools

With a Linked Clone desktop pool, once you create and entitle your desktop pool, your desktops will be created, first by creating the replica and then by creating the Linked Clones virtual desktop machines. There are a number of management tasks that you will need to perform, which we will cover in this section. Before performing any of these, it's always worth checking the status of the desktop pool first:

  1. To do this, from the Horizon View Administrator dashboard screen, under the Inventory section in the left-hand pane, expand the Catalog section and then click on Desktop Pools (1). You will now see the following screenshot:
  1. From the list of desktop pools displayed, you can now select one by clicking on it. In the example lab, we are going to select the Linked Clone desktop pool, so click on the entry for Win7-Floating-lc (2). You...