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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 10 virtual desktop machine


For the example lab, we will repeat the build and optimization process to build a second parent image, but this time, we are going to build a Windows 10 virtual desktop machine. In the next section, we will repeat the process described in the previous section and build a Windows 10 virtual desktop machine.

Just as a reminder, the process for building the virtual desktop machine is shown in the following image:

Once built, this Windows 10 parent image will then be used to create an Instant Clone, virtual desktop machine pool.

Rather than go through every step again screenshot by screenshot, we will list the steps we followed when creating the Windows 7 parent image and then just show the screenshots to highlight the differences. You can refer to the previous section to get more details.

Creating the virtual desktop machine container

As with creating the previous virtual desktop machine, the first thing we need to do is build and configure the actual...