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VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization Solutions

You're reading from   VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization Solutions Plan, design, and secure your virtual desktop environments with VMware Horizon 6 View

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782170709
Length 362 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Components of VMware Horizon View 6 FREE CHAPTER 2. Solution Methodology 3. Persistent or Nonpersistent vDesktops 4. End Devices 5. The PCoIP Protocol 6. Sizing the VDI 7. Building Redundancy into the VDI Solution 8. Sizing the Storage 9. Security 10. Migrating User Personas 11. Backing Up the VMware View Infrastructure 12. Exciting New Features in Horizon View 6 A. Additional Tools Index

Summary


Storage for virtualized server environments already offers significant complexity from a design perspective. By adding VDI on top of a classic server virtualization solution, the additional storage technologies were (for example, View Composer) potentially utilized—making the storage design exponentially more complex. This chapter covered both the high-level aspects of storage design for VMware View solutions as well as the subtle intricacies that can often make or break a solution. Storage design, especially for solutions that are intended to scale over time, can require significant effort. It is important to not only understand fundamental storage principles before embarking on a VMware View storage design, but also understand the various types of virtual disks, as well as how the underlying guest uses its disk.

Now that all of the major design concepts have been covered, the next chapter will focus on backup and recovery. While a robust VMware View solution should be able to mitigate...

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