Mastering VMware Horizon 6
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Free ChapterIntroduction to VMware Horizon 6
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An Overview of Horizon View Architecture and its Components
- An Overview of Horizon View Architecture and its Components
- Introducing the key Horizon components
- A high-level architectural overview
- Persistent or nonpersistent desktops
- Horizon View Composer and linked clones
- View Persona Management
- Printing from a Horizon View virtual desktop
- Managing USB devices
- ThinApp application virtualization
- Antivirus software for virtual desktops
- PCoIP Protocol – delivering the desktop experience
- Hardware-accelerated graphics for Horizon View
- Unified communications support
- Real-Time Audio Video
- View Clients
- Summary
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Design and Deployment Considerations
- Design and Deployment Considerations
- Understanding your business requirements
- Considering your options and choosing your technologies
- Implementation strategy (test, test, and test again)
- Horizon View pod and block architecture
- Cloud Pod Architecture
- vSphere design for Horizon View
- Horizon View design specifics
- Supporting infrastructure design
- Performance and management
- Desktop design
- Disaster recovery and backup
- Full solution scenario
- Summary
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Installing and Configuring Horizon View
- Installing and Configuring Horizon View
- Preparing Active Directory
- System requirements
- Installing the View Composer Server
- Installing the Connection Server
- Initial configuration of the View Connection Server
- Installing the replica server
- Installing the security server
- Configuring View for GPU-enabled virtual machines
- Summary
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Securing Horizon View with SSL Certificates
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Building and Optimizing the Desktop Operating System
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Managing and Configuring Desktop Pools
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Fine-tuning the End User Experience
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Managing User Profiles with View Persona Management
- Managing User Profiles with View Persona Management
- Defining a user profile
- Why do we need profile management?
- View Persona Management features
- Understanding how Persona Management works
- Persona Management and roaming profiles
- Configuring View Persona Management
- Installing the ADM template on the virtual desktop
- Installing the ADM template in AD
- Installing the View Agent with Persona Management
- Installing Persona Management on physical PCs
- Testing Persona Management
- Best practices
- Summary
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Delivering Remote Applications with Horizon Advanced
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Delivering Session-based Desktops with Horizon View
- Delivering Session-based Desktops with Horizon View
- Architecture overview
- Load balancing session-based desktops in View
- Installing and configuring desktop sessions in View
- Configuring the RDSH role
- Configuring RDSH for desktop sessions
- Installing the Horizon View Agent
- Configuring desktop sessions in Horizon View
- Enhancing the end user experience
- Summary
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View Client Options
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Upgrading to Horizon View 6
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Horizon 6 Advanced Edition
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Introduction to App Volumes
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Introduction to VSAN for VDI
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Troubleshooting
Horizon 6 is VMware's latest end-user computing solution, designed not only to centralize and virtualize desktop environments but also to deliver individual applications securely to any device by means of a virtual workspace.
Your journey starts by investigating an end-user computing project including assessment, pilot, and production. Next, we move into the design phase where we will first take a deeper look at the Horizon 6 solution and its components and how to plan their use in a successful project. Once we have our design and have identified our use cases, we will start to install and configure the core solution. With that in place, we will fine-tune the best end-user experience. Finally, we examine the advanced and enterprise features of Horizon 6, such as VSAN, vCOPS for View, and Horizon Mirage.
- Publication date:
- March 2015
- Publisher
- Packt
- Pages
- 640
- ISBN
- 9781784399238