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Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2

By : Jason Ventresco
Book Image

Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2

By: Jason Ventresco

Overview of this book

VMware Horizon View helps you simplify desktop and application management while increasing security and control. This book will introduce you to all of the components of the VMware Horizon View suite, walk you through their deployment, and show how they are used. We will also discuss how to assess your virtual desktop resource requirements, and build an optimized virtual desktop. "Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2" will provide you the information needed to deploy and administer your own end-user computing infrastructure. This includes not only the View components themselves, but key topics such as assessing virtual desktop resource needs, and how to optimize your virtual desktop master image. You will learn how to design and deploy a performant, flexible and powerful desktop virtualization solution using VMware Horizon View. You will implement important components and features, such as VMware View Connection Server, VMware View Composer, VMware View Transfer Server, and VMware View Security Server."Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2" will take you through application virtualization with VMware ThinApp, the implementation of Persona Management, and creation of Desktop Pools. We then cover View Client options, Desktop maintenance, and Virtual Desktop Master Image. Finally we discuss View SSL certificates management, Group Policies, PowerCLI, and VMware View Design and Maintenance to help you get the most out of VMware View.If you want to learn how to design, implement and administrate a complex, optimized desktop virtualization solution with VMware View, then this book is for you.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 1. Designing a VMware Horizon View Infrastructure

One task that is critical to the success of any VMware Horizon View implementation is the initial research that will shape the design of the View infrastructure. Performing this research requires not only an understanding of the individual components of View, but also an in-depth understanding of what is required to move our end user computing resources from the desk into the datacenter.

This chapter will discuss a number of topics that play a critical role in our View design. We will discuss the different components of a View installation, examine the different license levels of View, and outline the core requirements of a View infrastructure. We will also discuss how to measure the resource requirements of a desktop, and how those requirements impact all layers of our infrastructure including the storage design, network design, and virtual desktop VMware vSphere host configuration.

In this chapter we will learn:

  • The individual components of a VMware Horizon View installation

  • The role of different components of VMware Horizon View

  • VMware Horizon View license options

  • Core infrastructure requirements for VMware Horizon View

  • Desktop operating system (OS) design considerations

  • How to measure desktop resource requirements

  • How to calculate the size of our virtual desktop vSphere hosts

  • View client network bandwidth requirements

  • The basics of running a VMware Horizon View pilot