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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

Creating a desktop pool for high-end graphics


In the previous sections, we covered creating desktop pools for two different operating system environments with a desktop pool for each.

Another use case of creating a desktop pool is when you have a specific hardware configuration, namely the use of high-end graphics cards for either vSGA or vDGA. In the previous chapter, we also built a GPU-enabled virtual desktop machine, and in this section, we will build a desktop pool for this virtual desktop machine.

To create the desktop pool, perform the following steps:

  1. From the Inventory section, click on Desktop Pools (1) and then click on Add… (2) (as shown in an earlier screenshot).

  2. Click on the radio button for Manual 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 make sure that the box for Enable automatic assignment is not selected. Click on Next to continue.

  4. Click on the radio button for vCenter virtual machines...

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