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VMware Horizon View Essentials

You're reading from   VMware Horizon View Essentials Successfully design, install, and configure an end-to-end VDI infrastructure with VMware Horizon View

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2014
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ISBN-13 9781784399368
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing VDI and VMware Horizon 6.0 FREE CHAPTER 2. Horizon View 6.0 Architectural and Feature Overview 3. Designing and Building a Horizon View 6.0 Infrastructure 4. Installing Horizon View 6.0 5. A Guided Tour of the Horizon View Administrator Console 6. Building and Optimizing Virtual Desktop Machine OS Images 7. Configuring Horizon View to Deliver Virtual Desktops 8. Horizon View Clients 9. Fine-tuning the End User Experience A. References Index

The Horizon View software client


The Horizon View Client is a software application that gets installed onto the end user's device, which allows them to log in and connect to their virtual desktop machine. Once logged in, the View Client displays the screen from the virtual desktop machine located in the data center onto the screen of the local client device.

The client software is available for the following platforms:

  • Microsoft Windows

  • Apple Mac

  • iOS

  • Android

  • Linux

Downloading the Horizon View Clients

The Horizon View Clients are available on the VMware download page at http://tinyurl.com/q2o98kh.

In our example, we are going to download the View Client software and save it in the shared folder.

Note

One thing to note is that the Horizon View Client software has a different release cycle from the main Horizon View software, which means that the clients are released on a more frequent basis and you don't have to wait for a full Horizon View release to take advantage of new client-based features. You...

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