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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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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

Optimizing the image


In this section, we are going to look at two ways of optimizing the virtual desktop machine. One is a manual, script-based process and the other uses an optimization application with a GUI-driven console. You might want to review what gets removed or switched off in order to ensure that the virtual desktop machine has the features you require and behaves as expected.

Optimizing the image using the commands.bat process

The commands.bat file is found as an attachment to the VMware View Optimization Guide, which can be downloaded from the VMware website using :http://tinyurl.com/7rzfw6b. Then, follow the next set of steps:

  1. Once downloaded, open the document in Adobe Reader and save the embedded files as follows. Click on the paperclip icon (1) to show the document attachments.

  2. Right-click on the file you want to save, and click on Save Attachment. In this example, we are going to save the files to the \\hzn6-dc1\Shared Folder\View 6.0\ shared folder. Repeat this for all of...

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