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VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook

By : Jason Ventresco
Book Image

VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook

By: Jason Ventresco

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Managing VMware Horizon View with PowerCLI
Index

Creating a network label specification


A network label specification is used to configure desktop pools that need to automatically place desktops on one of multiple available virtual machine networks, often for network capacity reasons. This feature is currently available only when using PowerCLI.

Getting ready

In this example, the vSphere cluster where your desktop desktops will be deployed has two virtual machine networks named VLAN10 and VLAN20, and each virtual machine network can support no more than 250 desktops. We are going to create a desktop pool that has 500 desktops. To do this using the desktop Manager Admin console, we will need two virtual desktop master images, one connected to each virtual machine network. You will then need to create two desktop pools, one for each virtual desktop master image.

How to do it…

When you use network label specification files, you need only one virtual desktop master image and one desktop pool. In this recipe, we will create network label specification...