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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

VMware Horizon View Agent supported operating systems


The VMware Horizon View Agent supports multiple versions of the Microsoft Windows desktop operating system and Microsoft Windows Terminal Server. The following table outlines which version of Windows is supported, based on what type of View-brokered service we wish to provide.

Windows Version

View Desktop or Terminal Service session

View Local Mode Desktop

Windows XP Professional 32-bit (SP3)

Supported

Supported

Windows Vista Business and Enterprise 32-bit (SP1 or SP2)

Supported

Not supported

Windows 7 Enterprise or Professional, 64-bit and 32-bit (No SP or SP1)

Supported

Supported

Windows 8 Enterprise or Professional, 64-bit and 32-bit

Supported

Supported

Windows 2008 Terminal Server 64-bit (SP2)

Supported

Not applicable

Windows 2008 R2 Terminal Server 64-bit (SP1)

Supported

Not applicable

To obtain current information about which desktop operating systems and Microsoft Terminal Services servers are supported, please refer to the online VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes.

Note

Windows 7 virtual machines require vSphere 4.0 U4 (ESX or ESXi) or later, 4.1 U2 (ESX or ESXi) or later, 5.0 U1 or later, or 5.1 or later. Windows 8 virtual machines require vSphere 5.1 or later.