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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

Installing VMware Tools


Now that we have a running virtual desktop machine, the next thing we need to do is install VMware Tools in the same way as we would for any other VMware-based virtual machine:

  1. From the vSphere Web Client and the Summary tab, click on Install VMware Tools (1).

  2. In the Install VMware Tools dialog box, click on Mount (2) to attach the VMware Tools image to the virtual desktop machine.

  3. Switch back to the console of the virtual desktop machine.

  4. You will see that the disk image has been mounted and the AutoPlay feature has kicked in. Click on Run setup64.exe to start the installation.

  5. Click on Yes in the UAC dialog box, if displayed, to allow the installation program to make changes to the computer.

  6. The Welcome screen for the installation wizard is now displayed. Click on Next > to start the installation.

  7. In the Choose Setup Type dialog box, check the radio button for Typical (4).

  8. Click on Next > to continue.

  9. In the Ready to install VMware Tools box, click on Install to start...

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