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Mastering VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition

By : Barry Coombs
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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

Horizon View Pod and Block Architecture


We are going to start by discussing the core concept of a Horizon View design: the Pod and Block Reference Architecture. This provides the underpinnings to all Horizon View deployments.

The Horizon View pod and block architecture provides you with a reference architecture that can support up to 10,000 users. This is achieved by taking a modular approach to the infrastructure deployment by creating separate Horizon View blocks that are designed to support up to 2,000 users each and contain all the infrastructure components required to support and run those 2,000 virtual desktop machines.

The management components are also deployed as a module called the management block, and hosts components such as the Connection Servers and Security Servers.

The blocks then scale up in multiples of 2,000 until you reach the 10,000 limit (five blocks). This configuration of five blocks is called a pod and gives you one large, unified virtual desktop environment to manage...