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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
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Section 3: Advanced Features, Troubleshooting, and Upgrading an Environment

Example solution scenario

To finish up this chapter, we wanted to give you an example of a real-life scenario so that you have the opportunity to put all the elements that we've covered in this chapter into action and see how they would all fit together. You will see that we have put together a mock scenario. Read through it and make some notes about the elements that you would be configuring and how you would design the architecture for a production environment.

We are going to build an example design based on a fictitious company called PVO Engineering Inc. and their requirements for deploying a VDI solution. This is shown in the following topology diagram of their current network environment and locations:

The company has three office locations: an HQ office and two remote sites for the app development teams. To serve these, they have two data centers that are running...