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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

Desktop design considerations


You might think that once you have spent your time considering and designing all the elements mentioned earlier, that the hard work is over. Realistically, it has only just begun. Your VDI solution, without the desktops, is just a virtual infrastructure, and the design and functionality of the desktops is critical to a successful implementation. There are a great number of choices we need to make around the design for the desktops within Horizon View. This will be affected by the way the users need to use the desktops and is likely to have a knock-on effect on the way you are going to manage the desktops and the resources the desktops require.

Pool design

You will want to design your desktop pools based on the similarities between the desktops that will allow you to group desktops together. You should use the information collected by the desktop assessment and other sources to start designing how your desktop pools are going to look. While analyzing this data...