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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

Configuring View to deliver desktop sessions


With the configuration of the RDSH server completed, the next stage in the installation and configuration process is performed from within the View Administrator console and, like a standard View, setup involves creating pools and entitlements.

Before you do that, you first need to set up a farm that contains the newly-built RDSH Desktop session server.

Creating a farm for desktop sessions

To create a farm for desktop sessions, perform the following steps:

  1. Open a browser and connect to the View Administrator. In the example lab, the address for the View Administrator is https://hzn7-cs1.pvolab.com/admin/ .

  2. Log in to the View Administrator using the administrator account and password, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. You will now see the View Administrator Dashboard.

    From here, expand the arrow for Resources from the Inventory pane on the left, and then click on Farms (1). Now click the Add... button (2), as shown in the following screenshot:

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