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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

Chapter 3. Design and Deployment Considerations

Having given you a comprehensive overview of the different components of VMware Horizon in the first couple of chapters, in this chapter, we are going to start looking at how to put those components to use by introducing you to some of the design and deployment techniques that you need to consider when undertaking your VMware Horizon project.

We are going to discuss these techniques in order for you to prove the technology and understand how it needs to work inside your business, starting with issues such as assessing the current environment and how to use this information to design a successful VMware Horizon deployment in your own environment.

Once you fully understand what it is you need to achieve for the business, you can dive deeper into the design considerations for your Horizon View solution, including, but not limited to, ESXi host design, memory and CPU allocations for virtual desktops, storage considerations, thin clients, and other...