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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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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

Desktop design considerations


You might think that once you have spent your time considering and designing all the elements mentioned earlier, that the hard work is over. Realistically, it has only just begun. Your VDI solution, without the desktops, is just a virtual infrastructure, and the design and functionality of the desktops is critical to a successful implementation. There are a great number of choices we need to make around the design for the desktops within Horizon View. This will be affected by the way the users need to use the desktops and is likely to have a knock-on effect on the way you are going to manage the desktops and the resources the desktops require.

Pool design

You will want to design your desktop pools based on the similarities between the desktops that will allow you to group desktops together. You should use the information collected by the desktop assessment and other sources to start designing how your desktop pools are going to look. While analyzing this data...

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