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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

Desktop pool common terms


There are a number of options that must be selected when creating a View desktop pool. Understanding what these options mean is important, as they will impact not only how the desktops are deployed, but also what options users will have when they attempt to access those desktops.

Later on in the chapter, we will go through the deployment of two different desktop pools, but prior to that it is important to familiarize yourself with some of the terminologies that will come up during that process. Once you understand these terms, you will be able to create any type of desktop pool, something which we cannot demonstrate in this book due to the sheer number of options that exist.

Term

Definition

Adobe Flash settings for Remote sessions

Pool settings that control Adobe Flash quality and frame rate for View Clients, both of which affect connection bandwidth utilization.

Automated assignment

Used with Dedicated desktop assignment; if a user does not already have...