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VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook

By : Jason Ventresco
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VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook

By: Jason Ventresco

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VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook
Jason Ventresco
Oct, 2014 | 332 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook
VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
VMware Horizon View Architecture Fundamentals
VMware Horizon View Architecture Fundamentals
Introduction
Identifying why we need VMware Horizon with View
Understanding the risks of end user computing
Understanding how our desktop configuration impacts our design
Determining our Horizon View desktop infrastructure's requirements
Analyzing our Horizon with View environment
Summary
2
Implementing a VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod
Implementing a VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod
Introduction
The VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod overview
Federated Pod's port requirements
Configuring a VMware Horizon View Federated Pod
Entitling users or groups in a Horizon View Federated Pod
Assigning users and groups to Horizon View sites
Reviewing your Horizon View Federated Pod configuration
Modifying Horizon View Federated Pod objects
Removing objects from your Federated Pod or global entitlements
Disabling the Horizon View Cloud Pod Architecture feature
3
Horizon View Installation, Backup, and Recovery Using the CLI
Horizon View Installation, Backup, and Recovery Using the CLI
Introduction
Automating the installation of Horizon View Connection Servers
Automating the installation of Horizon View Composer
Performing Horizon View Connection Server backups
Performing Horizon View Connection Server recoveries
Performing a Horizon View Composer backup
Performing Horizon View Composer recoveries
4
Managing VMware Horizon View with PowerCLI
Managing VMware Horizon View with PowerCLI
Retrieving the Horizon View license information
Enabling remote management on Windows
Establishing a remote Horizon View PowerCLI session
Viewing all the PowerCLI commands and their options
Managing desktop pools with PowerCLI
Creating an automatically provisioned linked-clone desktop pool
Creating an automatically provisioned full-clone desktop pool
Creating a manually provisioned desktop pool
Creating a manual unmanaged desktop pool
Creating a Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) pool
Updating the Horizon View pools
Creating a network label specification
Exporting network label specifications for linked-clone pools
Exporting network label specifications for full-clone pools
Retrieving the Horizon View Composer Server information
Retrieving a list of the Horizon View desktop pools
Removing desktop pools
Entitling a desktop pool
Entitling or unentitling an individual desktop
Reviewing the desktop pool entitlement
Refreshing a linked-clone desktop or pool
Recomposing a linked-clone desktop pool
Rebalancing a linked-clone desktop pool
Updating the Horizon View global settings
Updating the Horizon View connection broker settings
Adding a vCenter Server to Horizon View
Removing a vCenter Server from Horizon View
Updating the settings of vCenter Server that is linked to Horizon View
Monitoring the remote Horizon View sessions
Resetting a Horizon View desktop
Disconnecting the Horizon View Client session
Logging Off the Horizon View Client Session
Configuring the Horizon View license
Retrieving the global Horizon View configuration data
Retrieving the Horizon View connection broker information
Retrieving a list of virtual machines managed by Horizon View
Retrieving a list of physical machines
Retrieving the AD user or group Information
Retrieving information about persistent data disks
Retrieving the Horizon View event reports and their descriptions
Retrieving the Horizon View event reports
Retrieving the Horizon View infrastructure's health monitors and their status
Retrieving a list of the vCenter Servers linked to the Horizon View environment
Retrieving a list of the Windows RDS Servers registered with Horizon View
Retrieving the Horizon View license information
5
Implementation of Horizon View Persona Management
Implementation of Horizon View Persona Management
Introduction
Implementing Horizon View Persona Management
Configuring Horizon View Persona Management's advanced options
6
Delivering Applications Using VMware ThinApp
Delivering Applications Using VMware ThinApp
Introduction
Deploying VMware ThinApp
Capturing an application with ThinApp
Updating ThinApp packages
Configuring a Horizon View ThinApp repository
Assigning ThinApp applications in Horizon View
Removing ThinApp assignments
7
Deploying Horizon View Clients in Kiosk Mode
Deploying Horizon View Clients in Kiosk Mode
Introduction
Preparing your VMware Horizon View and Microsoft AD infrastructures for Kiosk Mode Clients
Configuring the default values for Kiosk Mode Clients
Adding AD accounts for Kiosk Mode Clients
Verifying the configuration of Kiosk Mode Clients
Configuring Kiosk Mode Horizon View Client devices
8
vRealize Operations for Horizon
vRealize Operations for Horizon
Introduction
Implementing vRealize Operations for Horizon
Monitoring Horizon View client sessions using V4V
Monitoring the Horizon View infrastructure using V4V
Using the V4V Horizon View Dashboards
9
Using VMware Mirage with Horizon View
Using VMware Mirage with Horizon View
Introduction
Specifying the Mirage server name in Horizon View
Installing the Mirage client
Capturing a Mirage base layer
Capturing an application using Mirage
Centralizing Horizon View desktops using Mirage
Creating Mirage collections
Installing applications using Mirage
Upgrading the Horizon View desktop OS using Mirage
10
Implementing VMware Virtual SAN for Horizon View
Implementing VMware Virtual SAN for Horizon View
Introduction
Sizing a Horizon View environment for VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN)
Enabling VMware Virtual SAN
Using VSAN with VMware Horizon View
11
Implementing Application Streaming Using Windows Remote Desktop Services
Implementing Application Streaming Using Windows Remote Desktop Services
Introduction
Configuring the Windows RDS server for use with Horizon View
Creating an RDS farm in Horizon View
Creating an RDS application pool in Horizon View
Using the Horizon View Client to access RDS-streamed applications
Monitoring the status of RDS hosts and sessions in Horizon View
Modifying an RDS application pool in Horizon View
Modifying an RDS farm or server in Horizon View
Index
Index

Configuring the Horizon View license

The Set-License command is used to license a Horizon View pod.

How to do it…

The Set-License command requires only one option: -key. Do not remove the dashes from the license key, for example:

Set-License -Key "11111-AAAAA-22222-BBBBB-33333"
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