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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

Creating a Windows 7 virtual desktop machine


In this section, we will build a virtual desktop machine with Windows 7 as the operating system. We will follow the steps outlined at the beginning of this chapter to optimize and prepare the image to be used as a floating-assigned, linked-clone virtual desktop machine.

Creating the virtual desktop machine container

The first thing we need to do is build and configure the actual virtual desktop machine on our vCenter Server. This will define the virtual hardware configuration. To define the configuration, follow these steps:

  1. Open a browser and log in to the vSphere Web Client for the vCenter vcs1.pvolab.com, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Once logged in, you will see the vSphere Web Client home page, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Navigate to the data center where you want to create the virtual desktop. In the example lab, the data center is called PVO's Datacenter (1).

  4. Click and highlight the data center name, right-click, and from...