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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 GPU-enabled virtual desktop machine


In this section, we are going to build a second Windows 7 virtual desktop machine, but this time for use with a dedicated hardware-based NVIDIA GPU card. As we discussed previously, there are three models for delivering high-end graphics. For this example, we will set up a virtual desktop machine to use vDGA.

Creating the virtual desktop machine container

The first step, as with the build process covered previously for Windows 7, is to build the virtual machine itself. We will follow the steps previously described in this chapter to build a Windows 7 virtual desktop machine, up to the point where we configure the virtual hardware differently, as we need to add in the GPU card at this point:

  1. Follow the steps to build a Windows 7 machine, as described in the previous section, Creating a Windows 7 virtual desktop machine, until you get to the Customize Hardware section, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. In the 2f Customize Hardware section, under...