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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

Troubleshooting Horizon View issues


There are a number of components that we have discussed throughout this book, which makes up your Horizon View infrastructure, and while they are generally very reliable, they can, of course, fail at some point, with serious knock-on effects. Wherever possible, you should be ensuring that your solution is highly available, and where not possible, ensure that the components are sufficiently monitored, using components such as vRealize Operations for Horizon.

View general infrastructure issues

The first port of call when troubleshooting your Horizon View infrastructure should be the event log within the Horizon View Administrator console. You can quickly and easily access the event log by clicking alerts in the top left-hand corner of the screen:

You should also utilize the dashboard view in View Administrator to get a quick overview of the health of your environment. This screen will show you the health of all the key components within your infrastructure...