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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

Architectural overview


So, let's take a look at the architecture and how session-based desktops work when compared to the standard View virtual desktop machine brokering. In terms of architecture, delivering desktop sessions is pretty much the same as delivering remote applications.

Horizon View acts as the broker, but instead of brokering a virtual desktop machine that is running on the ESXi host server or an RDSH published application, it is now brokering a desktop session that is running on a Microsoft Windows Server. This server is configured with the RDS role and a number of customizations and policies to make the Windows Server GUI interface look more like that of the Windows 8 desktop operating system.

The following diagram gives you an outline of the architecture:

So, how does the architecture work? Basically, in exactly the same way as we have already discussed in Chapter 8, Delivering Remote Applications with View Hosted Apps, but now we are delivering remote desktop sessions rather...