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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have discussed how to deliver remote/published applications with the Horizon published applications feature. We started off by looking at the architecture and took a deep dive into how it works, before walking through the installation and configuration process of both the Microsoft RDSH components and the Horizon View components needed to make it work.

We then configured an RDS farm and an application pool, and then entitled a test user to the pool. Finally, to check that everything was working, we logged in as the user and tested the environment by launching a remote application.

In the final section, we looked at how to configure load balancing in a View published application environment.

In the next chapter, we are going to look at how we apply the same methodology to deliver session-based or published desktops.

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