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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

Real-Time Audio Video (RTAV)


Following on from the unified communications support, the next question we hear concerns support for plugging in a USB webcam and using it with a virtual desktop.

The issue

Like unified communications and VoIP, using a webcam or using audio in and audio out on a virtual desktop machine was not initially supported due to the high bandwidth requirements these types of device require, therefore resulting in poor performance. Any redirection of these types of devices was previously handled with the USB redirection feature of the PCoIP protocol.

This is how audio in worked, but audio in using a 3.5 mm jack socket did not work at all. Audio out did work using the PCoIP audio redirection feature, which was much better than using a USB redirection.

The problem is that you can't split a USB audio device such that the audio out functionality remains local to the client and audio in is redirected. So, using a USB headset in a VoIP-type application required the entire headset...