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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784399368

Length 252 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

VMware Horizon

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Peter von Oven

Peter V Oven

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

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:

From the vSphere Web Client and the Summary tab, click on Install VMware Tools (1).
In the Install VMware Tools dialog box, click on Mount (2) to attach the VMware Tools image to the virtual desktop machine.
Switch back to the console of the virtual desktop machine.
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.
Click on Yes in the UAC dialog box, if displayed, to allow the installation program to make changes to the computer.
The Welcome screen for the installation wizard is now displayed. Click on Next > to start the installation.
In the Choose Setup Type dialog box, check the radio button for Typical (4).
Click on Next > to continue.
In the Ready to install VMware Tools box, click on Install to start...

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Authors (2)

von Oven

von Oven

Peter von Oven is an experienced technical consultant and has spent the past 25 years working with customers and partners designing technology solutions. During his career, Peter has presented at key IT events, such as VMworld, IP EXPO, and various VMUGs and CCUG events. He has also worked in senior presales roles and presales management roles for Fujitsu, HP, Citrix, and VMware, and has been awarded VMware vExpert four years running. In 2016, Peter founded his own company, Droplet Computing, where he works today as the Founder and Chief Technology Officer.Peter got his first taste for writing when assisting with some of the chapters in Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View, which then lead to five other Packt titles.

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