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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

Entitling users


Now that you have created a number of desktop pools that contain virtual desktop machines, the next step is to allow the users to have access to the pools and virtual desktop machines:

  1. From the View Administrator, under the Inventory menu in the left-hand pane, click on Users and Groups (1). Then, on the Users and Groups screen, click the Entitlements... button (2). From the menu that pops up, select the option for Add Desktop Entitlement.

  2. You will now see Add Desktop Entitlement the configuration screen, as shown in the following screenshot:

In the example lab, we have an AD group called Sales that we are going to entitle to the Windows 7 floating Full Clone desktop pool.

  1. To configure the entitlement for the example lab, first check the box for Groups (3). You can also configure individual users.

  2. Then, in the Domain box, click the down arrow and select the relevant domain. In the example lab, this is configured as pvolab.com. Then, in the Name/User name box, ensure that the...