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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

View Transfer Server requirements


View Transfer Server requires a minimum server configuration to ensure adequate performance and properly support the movement of Local Mode desktop data between the View client and the View Transfer Server. This section will outline these requirements.

Hardware requirements

A View Transfer Server has specific requirements with regard to the hardware specifications. View Transfer Server uses multiple virtual SCSI adapters in order to mount multiple VMDK files at once when transferring data to and from the View Client with Local Mode. This functionality requires that the View Transfer Server be installed on a virtual machine only.

The following table outlines the minimum hardware specifications of a View Transfer Server:

Hardware Component

Minimum Required

Processor

Two 64-bit CPUs

Memory

4 GB

Networking

1 Gbps NICs

Hard disk capacity

40 GB

The View Transfer Server has additional requirements that are unique to the Transfer Server role. These include...