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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)
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Section 1: Installation and Configuration
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Section 2: Building and Delivering the Virtual Desktop Experience
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Section 3: Advanced Features, Troubleshooting, and Upgrading an Environment

Upgrading the View Security Server

The next step in upgrading your Horizon View environment is to upgrade the Security Servers that are used to enable external users to connect to their desktops. Bear in mind that this won't be added to your domain, so you will need to log in using local credentials.

Before you begin the upgrade

There are a couple of prerequisites you need to have completed before starting the upgrade of the View Security Server.

By default, since View 5.3, traffic between the Security Server and Connection Server is governed by IPSEC rules. When you complete an upgrade of a View Security Server, these rules will need to be recreated, and if the existing rules still exist, this will fail.

As such, VMware...