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Mastering VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition

By : Barry Coombs
Book Image

Mastering VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition

By: Barry Coombs

Overview of this book

Desktop virtualization can be a bit of a headache. But VMware Horizon 7 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, 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 the infrastructure 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 mobile cloud, so you can use them to take full control of your virtualized infrastructure.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Upgrading the VMware Horizon agent


Upgrading the Horizon agent is probably one of the simplest tasks of the upgrade process. You are going to need to upgrade the agents in all of your golden images and then recompose the desktop pools.

With non-persistent desktops, this is a relatively simple task of upgrading the agent, taking a new snapshot, and recomposing all the pools. With persistent desktops, you may need to take further consideration into the effect of recomposing the pool, or alternatively, look at manually upgrading the agent on each virtual desktop machine, or deploying an applications deployment tool.

You also need to consider that the Horizon agent may be installed on an RDSH host server used for delivering desktop sessions and View-hosted applications. For this, you will need to schedule the time where you can take host machines out of the farm in order to perform the upgrade.

We are not going to go through the Horizon Agent installation process, as this has been covered previously...