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Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2

By : Jason Ventresco
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Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2

By: Jason Ventresco

Overview of this book

VMware Horizon View helps you simplify desktop and application management while increasing security and control. This book will introduce you to all of the components of the VMware Horizon View suite, walk you through their deployment, and show how they are used. We will also discuss how to assess your virtual desktop resource requirements, and build an optimized virtual desktop. "Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2" will provide you the information needed to deploy and administer your own end-user computing infrastructure. This includes not only the View components themselves, but key topics such as assessing virtual desktop resource needs, and how to optimize your virtual desktop master image. You will learn how to design and deploy a performant, flexible and powerful desktop virtualization solution using VMware Horizon View. You will implement important components and features, such as VMware View Connection Server, VMware View Composer, VMware View Transfer Server, and VMware View Security Server."Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2" will take you through application virtualization with VMware ThinApp, the implementation of Persona Management, and creation of Desktop Pools. We then cover View Client options, Desktop maintenance, and Virtual Desktop Master Image. Finally we discuss View SSL certificates management, Group Policies, PowerCLI, and VMware View Design and Maintenance to help you get the most out of VMware View.If you want to learn how to design, implement and administrate a complex, optimized desktop virtualization solution with VMware View, then this book is for you.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using the View Client


This section will show how to use the View Client to connect to a virtual desktop. In our example, we will be connecting to the View Connection Server named VIEWMGR-01.vjason.local, and selecting a desktop from a pool named LC-Pool. The following steps detail the login process from start to finish:

  1. Launch the View Client using any of the shortcuts that were created during the installation process.

  2. In the VMware Horizon View Client window (shown in the following screenshot), supply the Connection Server name if it is not present, and click on Connect.

  3. If the View Connection server is still using the default self-signed certificate, or the View Client has not been configured to bypass certificate verification, you will be presented with a warning that the client cannot verify the identity of the server, as shown in the following screenshot. For now, click on Continue.

    Note

    The ideal method to address this issue is to replace the default SSL certificates with ones that will...