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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

Deploying View Persona Management


This section will detail the steps that are needed to deploy and enable View Persona Management within a View environment. This section will focus on the minimum steps required to implement Persona Management. To learn about the many other configuration options that are present within the ViewPM.adm Group Policy template, refer to the Advanced Persona Management options section later on in the chapter.

Infrastructure requirements

To ensure optimal performance, Persona Management recommends that the components of the View infrastructure meet certain minimum requirements. These recommendations include:

  • One file server with 8 GB of ram for every 1,000 users:

    • If a virtual server is used, it is recommended that the filesystem that hosts the Persona Management repository should be striped across four virtual disks, each with its own SCSI controller

  • 1 Gbps connectivity between the desktops and the servers that host the Persona Management repository

While these recommendations...