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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

Configuring a full-clone desktop pool


The process in which you build a full-clone dedicated desktop pool is not too similar to the linked clone floating process we described in the previous section. In this section, we will briefly cover how to build a dedicated, full-clone desktop pool. Have a look at the following screenshot:

  1. From the Inventory section, click on Desktop Pools (1) and then click on Add… (2).

  2. Click on the radio button for Automated Desktop Pool from the pool type menu. Click on Next to continue.

  3. On the User Assignment page, click on the radio button for Dedicated and tick the box for Enable automatic assignment. Click on Next to continue.

  4. Click on the radio button for Full virtual machines on the vCenter Server configuration page. This means that the virtual desktop machines will be built from the gold image template that we built previously. Click on Next to continue.

  5. Enter the details for the Desktop Pool Identification on the next configuration page. In this example, we will...

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