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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

View Event configuration options


Chapter 2, Implementing VMware Horizon View Connection Server, discussed the setup of the Connection Server, including the configuration of the View events database. This section will discuss advanced options that exist for displaying and logging View event data. To access these advanced options, log in to the View Manager Admin console and open the Event Configuration page from View Configuration.

The following settings can be configured to further customize how View event data is captured and displayed. The settings are arranged into two sections on the Event Configuration page:

  • Event Settings:

    • Show events in View Administrator for: This setting controls how long events are displayed in the console. Options are 1, 2, or 3 weeks, or 1, 2, 3, or 6 months.

    • Classify events as new for: This setting controls how long events are classified as new in the console. Options are 1, 2, or 3 days.

  • Syslog:

    • Send to syslog servers: This setting enables you to send View event data to the specified syslog servers. This data will be sent unencrypted, so consult with your organization's security policy before enabling this feature.

    • Log to file: This checkbox enables you to write syslog data to a file rather than sending it to syslog servers directly.

    • Copy to location: This setting is used when the Log to file option is checked. Syslog data will be saved to the specified location. Required information includes the UNC path, username, password, and domain. This data is sent and recorded unencrypted, so consult with your organization's security policy before enabling this feature.