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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

Preparing virtual desktops for delivery


Now that we have our fully optimized virtual desktop machine parent images that can be used by Horizon View, the next stage of the process is to prepare them for delivery to the end users. There are two different ways in which a desktop needs to be prepared, depending on whether you are using a Full Clone desktop or a linked/instant clone desktop.

Pool design - a quick recap

We will cover creating desktop pools in more detail in Chapter 7, Managing and Configuring Desktop Pools, but for now, let's just have a quick recap around pool design and where the images that we created in this chapter are going to be used.

You will typically have a desktop pool for each type of virtual desktop machine you want to deliver, probably categorized by use case or department. In this chapter, we have built several different types of virtual desktop machines, which will be used in the following desktop pools:

  • Windows 7: This is to be used as a floating assignment, Linked...