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Advanced VDI with VMware Horizon 7 [Video]

By : Peter von Oven
Book Image

Advanced VDI with VMware Horizon 7 [Video]

By: Peter von Oven

Overview of this book

VMware Horizon 7 delivers, protects, and manages your applications and virtual desktops and ensures the end user can access them from anywhere and at any time. It is easy to have a fundamental knowledge of VMware Horizon 7 but it is way more challenging and difficult to implement and fine-tune it according to your business needs. Our video overcomes this challenge and ensures you gain the advanced and practical knowledge required to manage and implement Horizon 7 efficiently for your organization. The video starts by demonstrating advanced installation and configuration, which will help you to customize Horizon 7 according to your business requirements. Then you'll delve into the latest features of Horizon 7 such as just-in-time delivery with instant clone; modernized life cycle management, which ensures faster application delivery; better user experience; smart policies, in order to improve security; and many more. This advanced-level video will teach you to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single platform, multiple deployment scenarios, Horizon client and agent security, integration with third-party software, best practices, and troubleshooting techniques.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
6
Securing Your Horizon 7 Environment with SSL Certificates
14
User Environment Management for VDI
15
Advanced UEM with Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity
Chapter 7
Building and Optimizing the Virtual Desktop OS
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Section 1
Building a Windows 7 VDI Image
As this Windows desktop is going to be running as a VDI hosted virtual desktop, it needs to be built from the ground up as a VDI desktop, using the correct hardware configuration. We need to make this our gold image template from which all virtual desktops are created from. - Understand the details of the build process, Virtual hardware specification, and BIOS settings - Install the Windows 7 guest operating system - Install the VMware specific components and VMware tools