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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

Managing View Composer persistent disks


View Composer persistent disks are used to store user profile data, and enable it to persist during the View Composer maintenance tasks described in this chapter. A linked clone is not required to have a persistent disk; features such as user profile folder redirection and View Persona management enable a linked-clone desktop to appear to be persistent, even if it lacks a persistent disk.

Organizations that rely on View Composer persistent disks to store critical user data should be familiar with how to manage them using native features of View. This section will provide examples of the different View maintenance operations that involve View Composer persistent disks.

Note

Persistent disks will work only with the operating system version with which they were deployed. In the event that the original operating system is unavailable, and the data on the disk must be accessed, the persistent disks will need to be manually attached to a new virtual desktop...