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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

Windows OS pre-deployment tasks


The following tasks are unrelated to the other optimization tasks that are described in this chapter but they should be completed prior to placing the desktop into production.

Installing VMware Tools

VMware Tools should be installed prior to the installation of the View Agent software. To ensure that the master image has the latest version of the VMware Tools software, apply the latest updates to the host vSphere Server prior to installing the tools package on the desktop.

Note

The same applies if you are updating your VMware Tools software. The View Agent software should be reinstalled after the VMware Tools software is updated to ensure that the appropriate View drivers are installed in place of the versions included with VMware Tools.

Cleaning up and defragmenting the desktop hard disk

To minimize the space required by the Virtual Desktop master image and ensure optimal performance, the Virtual Desktop hard disks should be cleaned of nonessential files and optimized...