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You're reading from Mastering VMware Horizon 7.8 Master desktop virtualization to optimize your end user experience

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789802375

Length 772 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

VMware Horizon

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (3):

Peter V Oven

Barry Coombs

Peter von Oven

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Installation and Configuration

2. Introducing VDI and VMware Horizon 7 FREE CHAPTER

3. Understanding Horizon 7 Architecture and Components

4. Design and Deployment Considerations

5. Installing and Configuring Horizon 7 - Part 1

6. Installing and Configuring Horizon 7 - Part 2

7. Section 2: Building and Delivering the Virtual Desktop Experience

8. Securing Horizon View with SSL Certificates

9. Building and Optimizing the Virtual Desktop OS

10. Configuring and Managing Desktop Pools - Part 1

11. Configuring and Managing Desktop Pools - Part 2

12. Fine-Tuning the End User Experience

13. Section 3: Advanced Features, Troubleshooting, and Upgrading an Environment

14. Delivering Published Apps with Horizon 7

15. Horizon Client Options

16. Upgrading to a New Version of Horizon

17. JMP and VMware Horizon 7 Deployment Considerations

18. Troubleshooting

19. What is New in Horizon 7

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Operating system and infrastructure updates

In the latest Horizon 7 version releases, VMware has added support for newer operating systems, virtual infrastructures, and other software applications. These are as follows:

Support for Windows Server 2019 (including RDSH support)
Support for VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 1
Support for VMware vSAN 6.7 Update 1
The ability to upgrade the Horizon Cloud Connector (used for VMware on AWS)
Support for IPv6 with the VMware virtualization pack for Skype

There have also been a number of improvements and new features when using VMware Cloud on AWS to run Horizon. These are as follows:

The minimum size cluster has now been reduced to 3
Support for vSphere stretched clusters
Support for NSX-T and VMware vSAN datastore encryption
Support for Horizon 7 Enterprise Edition, adding VMware UEM, VMware App Volumes, and VMware Instant Clone
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Authors (2)

Peter 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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Barry Coombs

Barry Coombs is the Operations and Pre Sales Director for ComputerWorld by day and an avid Blogger following everything to do with the virtualisation, storage and cloud industries.

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