VMware Horizon View essentials : successfully design, install, and configure an end-to-end VDI infrastructure with VMware Horizon View / Peter von Oven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oven, Peter von, author.

Series:

Professional expertise distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

VMware.

Virtual computer systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

If you are a desktop administrator or an end user of a computing project team looking to speed up to the latest VMware Horizon View solution, then this book is perfect for you. It is your ideal companion to deploy a solution to centrally manage and virtualize your desktop estate using Horizon View 6.0.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introducing VDI and VMware Horizon 6.0; What is virtual desktop infrastructure?; How does a user connect to their desktop?; Why VDI desktops are different from physical desktops; Server-based computing and VDI; Delivering published applications with SBC; Delivering published desktops with SBC; VDI, published applications, or desktop sessions?; The benefits of deploying a VDI solution; The VMware VDI story; An introduction to VMware Horizon 6; VMware Horizon 6 editions

Horizon View Standard EditionHorizon Advanced Edition; Horizon Enterprise Edition; Summary; Chapter 2: Horizon View 6.0 Architectural and Feature Overview; The Horizon View core components; A high-level architecture overview; The Horizon View Connection Server; How does it work?; The Horizon View Security Server; How does it work?; The Horizon View Replica Server; How does it work?; Horizon View Composer and linked clones; Introducing the clone technology in Horizon View; Full clones; Linked clones; What does View Composer build?; The linked-clone disk; The persistent disk or user data disk

The disposable diskThe internal disk; The linked-clone process; The linked-clone features and functions; The recompose operation; The refresh operation; The rebalance operation; View Persona Management; Do we need to manage user profiles differently?; The benefits of using View Persona Management; Printing from a Horizon View Virtual Desktop; Managing USB devices in a virtual desktop; USB device support in Horizon View; Filtering supported USB Devices; Managing multifunction USB devices; ThinApp application virtualization; What is ThinApp application virtualization?

Antivirus for virtual desktop machinesThe VMware vShield Endpoint architecture; The PCoIP protocol - delivering the desktop experience; An introduction to PCoIP; Other protocols - the Remote Desktop Protocol; What are the key differences between PCoIP and RDP?; Hardware-accelerated graphics in Horizon View; Virtual Shared Graphics Accleration; Virtual Dedicated Graphics Acceleration; Unified communications support; Support for Microsoft Lync 2013; Real-time Audio Video; The issue; How does RTAV fix this issue?; Horizon View Clients; The Horizon View Standard Edition licensing; Summary

Chapter 3: Designing and Building a Horizon View 6.0 InfrastructureProving the technology - from PoC to production; Assessment; Defining the success criteria; Proving the technology; Proof of concept; Proof of technology; Pilot; The pilot phase; Phase 1 - pilot design; Phase 2 - pilot deployment; Phase 3 - pilot test; Phase 4 - pilot review; Designing a Horizon 6.0 architecture; The pod and block reference architecture; The Cloud Pod Architecture; Sizing the infrastructure; Management servers; ESXi host servers; The View connection server; The View replica server; The View security server

The View Composer

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 11, 2014).

ISBN:

1-78439-660-5

OCLC:

894171190