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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

Instant Clones


The Instant Clones feature is actually a functionality built into the vSphere platform rather than a specific Horizon feature, and was made available from the vSphere 6.0 U1 release, but is only now becoming a supported feature as part of Horizon 7.

It uses the VMware VM Fork technology to very quickly provision virtual desktop machines. An instant clone is created from an already powered on and running virtual desktop machine, called the Parent VM, which is quiesced before the Instant Clone is created. This is what makes Instant Clones quicker to provision than Linked Clones with View Composer.

The Instant Clone shares its memory and its disk with the parent VM for read operations, and is created immediately, and in an already powered-on state, unlike with View Composer-based Linked Clones that have to power-on as part of the creation process. As well as sharing the memory and disk with the parent VM, the Instant Clone has its own unique memory and delta disk file.

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