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Mastering VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition

By : Barry Coombs
Book Image

Mastering VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition

By: Barry Coombs

Overview of this book

Desktop virtualization can be a bit of a headache. But VMware Horizon 7 changes all that. With a rich and adaptive UX, improved security and a range of useful features for storage and networking optimization, there’s plenty to love. But to properly fall in love with it, you need to know how to use it. And that means venturing deeper into the software, taking advantage of its extensive range of features, many of which are underused and underpromoted. This guide will take you through everything you need to know to not only successfully virtualize your desktop infrastructure but also to maintain and optimize the infrastructure to keep all your users happy. We’ll show you how to assess and analyze your infrastructure, and how to use that analysis to design a solution that meets your organizational and user needs. Once you’ve done that, you’ll find out how to build your virtualized environment, before deploying your virtualized solution. But more than that, we’ll also make sure you know everything you need to know about the full range of features on offer, including mobile cloud, so you can use them to take full control of your virtualized infrastructure.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

vSphere design for Horizon View


Having now looked at some of the reference architectures, it's time to turn our attention to some of the components that are part of that architecture, namely our vSphere virtualization platform and look at some of the high-level considerations for your design.

vSphere design

In this book, we aren't going into the intricacies of how to install and configure your ESXi hosts. However, we will briefly discuss the recommendations on how you should configure vCenter Server, as well as the hosts and clusters within your Horizon View environment.

It is technically possible to run your Horizon View and virtual server environments from one set of infrastructure, with one vCenter Server, and one or more ESXi clusters. By doing this, you could create a number of points of contention and a lot of difficulty during the time of upgrades.

As we have previously discussed, there are two infrastructure areas when it comes to Horizon View, the management block that runs the vCenter...