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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

Cloud Pod Architecture


The Cloud Pod Architecture in Horizon 7 extends the scalability and feature set from the previous version. You can now federate up to 25 pods across 5 sites, allowing you to deliver a single desktop solution for up to 50,000 users.

When connecting multiple pods in this manner, it will give you the ability to entitle users across pools on both pods and sites. So, if you currently have scaled past a single pod, either for scale on one site or to deliver a view environment on multiple sites, it will now allow you to administer users through a global user entitlement layer. You can now also deliver DR to your virtual desktops, in the event of failure, through the global user entitlement layer.

You can also configure the scope to set whether View shows a user's resources based only locally to them, on the same site but across pods, or in all pods across both sites:

The following diagram depicts the Cloud Pod Architecture:

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