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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

Disaster recovery and backup


As with any solution, fully understanding the backup and disaster recovery options is highly important. With Horizon View, there are multiple areas where you should understand the backup and recovery options, as well as the options available to you if a DR event should occur.

Backup and recovery options

There are a number of elements that you need to ensure are backed up when it comes to a Horizon View solution; they are summarized as follows:

  • View Connection Servers

  • View Security Servers

  • Microsoft Lightweight Directory Service

  • View Composer Database

  • vCenter Database

  • vCenter

  • File servers containing ThinApp and View Persona Data

  • Golden images

  • Full clone and persistent desktop images

As you can see, there are a number of areas that you need to ensure are protected on a daily basis, if not more often.

Through the Horizon View Administrator, you are able to configure the scheduled backup of the LDAP repository and the View Composer Database. These will be backed up to the following...