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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

Installing and configuring View hosted apps


We are now going to start the installation process, starting with configuring the server that is going to be used for hosting the remote applications by adding the RDSH role to it. In the example lab, there is already a Windows Server 2012 server ready-built, called RDSH-Apps, to perform this role.

The installation and configuration process is pretty straightforward and can be summarized with the following schematic diagram:

In the following sections, we are going to walk through this process in more detail, starting with configuring the RDSH role.

Configuring the RDS server role

The first thing that we are going to do is to configure the first RDSH server, and then configure this server to deliver the remote applications. The server we are going to configure is RDSH apps:

  1. Open a console to the server, and from the Server Manager Dashboard page of the server, click on Add roles and features (1), as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. The Add Roles...