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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

Liquidware Stratusphere UX

Liquidware Stratusphere UX is more than just a monitoring tool. In fact, it is more of a user life cycle management tool, and has played a part throughout the deployment we have covered throughout this book. We first used the output from Stratusphere UX when we assessed our current environment to provide us with an overview of the resources being used, but also to give us a baseline to work from as we deployed Horizon.

We then used this baseline to assist in tuning the end user experience as we on-boarded users and built our gold images to ensure that the end users were running at their most optimal levels of performance.

Finally, Stratusphere can be used as a diagnostic tool to aid the IT support team to get to the root cause of an issue quickly. IT can quickly understand where the issue lies, providing a detailed analysis of a single user, single machine...