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Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2

By : Jason Ventresco
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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 3. Implementing VMware Horizon View Composer

VMware Horizon View Composer is a feature of View that enables the rapid provisioning of linked-clone virtual desktops. A pool of linked-clone desktops shares the same master image and writes any changes to a dedicated virtual hard disk, also known as a delta disk. This drastically reduces the amount of per-virtual desktop storage required compared to full clone virtual desktops, as each of those requires its own copy of the master image. In addition, linked-clone desktops can be provisioned much more quickly than full clone desktops, which is beneficial in and of itself and also enables new ways of managing desktops throughout their lifecycle.

This chapter will discuss benefits, installation, configuration, backup, and recovery of the View Composer component of VMware Horizon View.

In this chapter, we will learn:

  • An overview of the capabilities and benefits of View Composer

  • The hardware and operating system requirements of View Composer

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