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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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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

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

Preparing virtual desktops for delivery


Now that we have our fully optimized virtual desktop machine parent images that can be used by Horizon View, the next stage of the process is to prepare them for delivery to the end users. There are two different ways in which a desktop needs to be prepared, depending on whether you are using a Full Clone desktop or a linked/instant clone desktop.

Pool design - a quick recap

We will cover creating desktop pools in more detail in Chapter 7, Managing and Configuring Desktop Pools, but for now, let's just have a quick recap around pool design and where the images that we created in this chapter are going to be used.

You will typically have a desktop pool for each type of virtual desktop machine you want to deliver, probably categorized by use case or department. In this chapter, we have built several different types of virtual desktop machines, which will be used in the following desktop pools:

  • Windows 7: This is to be used as a floating assignment, Linked...

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