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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

Managing desktop pools


With an automated desktop pool, once you create and entitle your desktop pool, your desktops will be created, first by creating the replica, and then by creating the Linked Clones. You will be able to see the progress of this process inside the vSphere Client and also from inside the Horizon View Administrator:

  1. To do this, from the Horizon View Administrator dashboard screen, under the Inventory section in the left-hand pane, select Catalog. Now click on Desktop Pools. You will see the following screenshot:

  2. Select the name of the desktop pool you wish to manage, by double-clicking on it and then selecting the Inventory tab (1), as shown in the following screenshot:

On the Inventory, you will see the names of the desktops, including the VM machine name, DNS name, the name of any connected or dedicated users, the hosts on which they reside, the agent version, and the datastore they reside on. You will also see the current status of the virtual desktop machines within...