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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have configured the Horizon View Administrator to deliver our virtual desktop machines by means of desktop pools. We have built and configured different desktop pools to match our different use cases, creating dedicated and floating-assigned pools, as well as building the virtual desktop machines within the pools using Linked clones, Instant Clones, and Full Clones. We also built and configured a dedicated pool for our high-end graphics users.

We also looked at some of the management tasks you will need to perform on the desktop pools, including recomposing a Linked Clone desktop pool, and managing persistent disks. As part of that, we also stepped back and looked at the infrastructure, now that we had started to build virtual desktop machines, to ensure it was performing as expected.

Further if you want to learn about how to fine tune the user experience of the virtual desktop machines that are delivered to the end users and also want to know about how to have...