Vmware Horizon View Essentials.

Intro -- VMware Horizon View Essentials -- Table of Contents -- VMware Horizon View Essentials -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Instant updates on new Packt books -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Introducing VDI and VMware Horizon 6.0 -- What is virtual desktop infrastructure? -- How does a user connect to their desktop? -- Why VDI desktops are different from physical desktops -- Server-based computing and VDI -- Delivering published applications with SBC -- Delivering published desktops with SBC -- VDI, published applications, or desktop sessions? -- The benefits of deploying a VDI solution -- The VMware VDI story -- An introduction to VMware Horizon 6 -- VMware Horizon 6 editions -- Horizon View Standard Edition -- Horizon Advanced Edition -- Horizon Enterprise Edition -- Summary -- 2. Horizon View 6.0 Architectural and Feature Overview -- The Horizon View core components -- A high-level architecture overview -- The Horizon View Connection Server -- How does it work? -- The Horizon View security server -- How does it work? -- The Horizon View replica server -- How does it work? -- Horizon View Composer and linked clones -- Introducing the clone technology in Horizon View -- Full clones -- Linked clones -- How do linked clones work? -- What does View Composer build? -- The linked-clone disk -- The persistent disk or user data disk -- The disposable disk -- The internal disk -- The linked-clone process -- The linked-clone features and functions -- The recompose operation -- The refresh operation -- The rebalance operation.

View Persona Management -- Do we need to manage user profiles differently? -- The benefits of using View Persona Management -- Printing from a Horizon View Virtual Desktop -- Managing USB devices in a virtual desktop -- USB device support in Horizon View -- Filtering supported USB devices -- Managing multifunction USB devices -- ThinApp application virtualization -- What is ThinApp application virtualization? -- Antivirus for virtual desktop machines -- The VMware vShield Endpoint architecture -- The PCoIP protocol - delivering the desktop experience -- An introduction to PCoIP -- Other protocols - Remote Desktop Protocol -- What are the key differences between PCoIP and RDP? -- Hardware-accelerated graphics in Horizon View -- Virtual Shared Graphics Acceleration -- Virtual Dedicated Graphics Acceleration -- Unified communications support -- Support for Microsoft Lync 2013 -- Real-Time Audio-Video -- The issue -- How does RTAV fix this issue? -- Horizon View Clients -- The Horizon View Standard Edition licensing -- Summary -- 3. Designing and Building a Horizon View 6.0 Infrastructure -- Proving the technology - from PoC to production -- Assessment -- Defining the success criteria -- Proving the technology -- Proof of concept -- Proof of technology -- Pilot -- The pilot phase -- Phase 1 - pilot design -- Phase 2 - pilot deployment -- Phase 3 - pilot test -- Phase 4 - pilot review -- Designing a Horizon 6.0 architecture -- The pod and block reference architecture -- The Cloud Pod Architecture -- Sizing the infrastructure -- Management servers -- ESXi host servers -- The View Connection Server -- The View replica server -- The View security server -- The View Composer -- vCenter Servers -- Sizing the desktop host servers -- CPU sizing considerations -- Light user -- Medium user -- Heavy user -- Memory sizing considerations -- Networking considerations.

Storage -- Delivering high-end graphics -- Virtual shared graphics acceleration considerations -- vSGA Supported Configurations -- How many virtual desktops are supported with vSGA? -- Virtual dedicated graphics acceleration considerations -- vDGA supported configurations -- How many virtual desktops are supported with vDGA? -- Sizing the virtual desktop machines -- Pool design -- User assignments - dedicated or floating desktops? -- Choosing the right client device -- An example design exercise -- User requirements -- The pool design -- Sizing the desktop blocks -- Sizing the storage requirements -- Sizing the management blocks -- The network requirements -- Summary -- 4. Installing Horizon View 6.0 -- Preparing for the installation -- Welcome to our lab environment -- What you need for the example lab -- Downloading the software -- SSL certificates for Horizon View -- Setting up a Root CA server -- Adding the Root CA role -- Installing a certificate on the connection server -- Installing the Horizon View Connection Server -- The minimum requirements of a connection server -- Hardware requirements -- Software requirements - supported operating systems -- The installation process -- Installing the View security server -- Installing the View replica server -- Installing View Composer -- Post-installation configuration tasks of the connection server -- Installing the certificate after the connection server installation -- Licensing Horizon View -- Adding vCenter Server and View Composer -- View events database -- Summary -- 5. A Guided Tour of the Horizon View Administrator Console -- What is Horizon View Administrator? -- Horizon View Administrator console UI -- Dashboard -- System Health -- Machine Status -- Datastores -- Inventory -- Users and Groups -- Catalog -- Resources -- Monitoring -- View events monitoring -- View session monitoring.

Global Policies -- View Configuration -- Global Settings -- Administrators -- Event Configuration -- Summary -- 6. Building and Optimizing Virtual Desktop Machine OS Images -- Creating the virtual desktop machine -- Creating the virtual machine in the vCenter Server -- Configuring the virtual desktop machine BIOS -- Updating the BIOS settings -- Starting the guest operating system installation -- Installing VMware Tools -- Installing applications and the View Agent -- Optimizing the image -- Optimizing the image using the commands.bat process -- VMware OS Optimization Tool -- Post-optimization -- Building a GPU-enabled virtual desktop machine -- Configuring the ESXi host and vCenter Server -- Building the virtual desktop machine -- Installing the operating system for GPU-enabled desktops -- Preparing the image for users -- Creating a template for a full-clone virtual desktop machine -- Creating a snapshot for linked clones -- Preparing the GPU-enabled virtual desktop machine -- Summary -- 7. Configuring Horizon View to Deliver Virtual Desktops -- Configuring a linked-clone desktop pool -- General -- Remote Settings -- Remote Display Protocol -- Adobe Flash Settings for Sessions -- Mirage Settings -- Entitling users to a desktop pool -- Configuring a full-clone desktop pool -- Creating a desktop pool for high-end graphics -- Summary -- 8. Horizon View Clients -- The Horizon View software client -- Downloading the Horizon View Clients -- Horizon View Client for Windows platforms -- Launching and configuring the Horizon View Client -- Testing the connection to the desktop -- Horizon View Client for Mac -- Horizon View Client for iPad -- Browser-based desktop access -- Hardware-based clients and thin clients -- Zero clients -- Thin clients -- Summary -- 9. Fine-tuning the End User Experience -- Active Directory prerequisites.

Creating an organizational unit -- Creating Group Policy Objects for Horizon View -- Importing and applying the Horizon View ADM templates -- Enabling the loopback policy -- Example policy settings -- The PCoIP tuning tool -- Summary -- A. References -- The VMware official documentation -- The software's download pages and tools -- Summary -- Index.

If you are a desktop administrator or an end user of a computing project team looking to speed up to the latest VMware Horizon View solution, then this book is perfect for you. It is your ideal companion to deploy a solution to centrally manage and virtualize your desktop estate using Horizon View 6.0.

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