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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

About the Reviewers

Justin Paul is a Project Engineer at DP Sciences focused in the area of storage and virtualization. He has been voted one of the top virtualization-related bloggers, as well as a recipient of several vendor recognition awards including VMware's vExpert program (1 of 400) and the new EMC Elect program (1 of 75).

Besides blogging, his articles have also been published in the Dayton Technology First IT journal. He holds many certifications, some of which include VMware VCAP-DCD5, VCP5-DV, and EMCIE and EMCTA for VNX.

Justin attended the University of Dayton and majored in Computer Information Systems. He has also attended several technology-specific training classes.

At his first job, he was repeatedly pulled aside for thinking out of the box and using solutions other than what were "in the book". He still strives to break the "norm" and use innovative solutions and technologies for creative problem solving.

Mario Russo has specialized in Virtualization Solutions. He is owner of the organization Business to Virtual (www.businesstovirtual.com).

He is the IBM Business Partner and VMware Professional Partner.

The complete list of customers is available at http://it.linkedin.com/in/mariorussob2v.

Raymond van't Hag has been working for VMware for over five years and currently holds the role of Sr. Specialist Systems Engineer in end user computing in the Netherlands. Before VMware, he worked for companies such as Dell, Symantec, and IBM. Today he is responsible for supporting larger VMware Horizon projects (such as Horizon View, Mirage, Workspace, and ThinApp), educating VMware Partners, and evangelizing VMware End-user Computing strategy via social media, and especially his own blog http://bright-streams.com. In 2012, Raymond also reviewed "VMware View 5 Desktop Virtualization Solutions" by Jason Langone and Andre Leibovici.