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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

SSL certificates for Horizon View


By default, Horizon View comes with self-signed certificates that are fine for a proof of concept or a small-scale pilot, but for a production environment, you need to have proper certificates.

The use of certificates became a requirement with View 5.1, where they were used for the Horizon View components to communicate, such as the Connection Server, Replica Server, and View Composer, as well as the underlying infrastructure of the ESXi hosts and Virtual Center Servers. Each of these components needs to have a certificate installed along with the client device that is connecting to it.

In the following section of this chapter, we will briefly cover how to set up certificates by installing a Root CA in our example test environment to get you started with Horizon View. However, we strongly recommend that you engage with your security team to deploy the correct type of certificate for your organization/environment.

Installing a Root CA

In this section, we are...