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Mastering VMware Horizon 7

You're reading from   Mastering VMware Horizon 7 Virtualization that can transform your organization

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
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ISBN-13 9781786466396
Length 676 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Peter von Oven Peter von Oven
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Barry Coombs Barry Coombs
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Mastering VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introduction to VDI and VMware Horizon 7 2. An Overview of Horizon View Architecture and Components FREE CHAPTER 3. Design and Deployment Considerations 4. Installing and Configuring Horizon View 5. Securing Horizon View with SSL Certificates and True SSO 6. Building and Optimizing the Virtual Desktop OS 7. Managing and Configuring Desktop Pools 8. Delivering Remote Applications with View Hosted Apps 9. Delivering Session-Based Desktops with Horizon View 10. Horizon View Client Options 11. Upgrading to a New Version of Horizon View 12. Troubleshooting Tips

Which Protocol - Blast Extreme, PCoIP, or RDP?


Now that we have a good understanding of PCoIP, Blast Extreme, and RDP, which one would you choose?

The most compelling reason to go with PCoIP is the fact that it uses the UDP protocol, which is much better suited to streaming media, and therefore lends itself perfectly to the characteristics of virtual desktop delivery, but as discussed, Blast can also use UDP as the delivery protocol. Just to highlight again, UDP is not concerned with how the data ends up on the endpoint device; it's only concerned with the speed of delivery and how quickly it gets there.

On the other hand, RDP uses TCP as its protocol, which is widely used across the Internet. The key difference with TCP is that it is concerned with how the data is being received. TCP requests an acknowledgment from the endpoint device as to whether or not it has received all of the packets successfully. If the endpoint device does not receive what it was expecting, then it replies, asking...

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