VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook

Jason Ventresco

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Jahr: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781782171645
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Informatik
• Thema: Virtuelle Realität

Starting with the basics, this book will provide you with the knowledge you need to successfully configure several core features of VMware Horizon View. The latest features such as View Cloud Pods, application streaming using Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Services, VMware VSAN, and VMware Horizon Mirage integration are covered. Several other important topics such as administration and configuration using both the View command-line tools and PowerCLI, View Persona Management, VMware vRealize Operations Manager, VMware ThinApp, and using View clients in Kiosk Mode are also explained with practical examples for you to understand the working aspects better. RDS-hosted apps, which allows you single application access from any device, are also touched upon. You will quickly learn how to work with each of these features to deploy and configure  core VMware Horizon View features.

VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook

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Table of Contents

VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook

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Preface

The ever-evolving VMware Horizon family of products

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. VMware Horizon View Architecture Fundamentals

Introduction

Identifying why we need VMware Horizon with View

How it works…

Migrating our legacy desktops

Delivering applications instead of desktops

No storage array needed thanks to VMware Virtual SAN

Redefining office mobility

End user computing and security

Simplifying the desktop support

Bring Your Own Device

Understanding the risks of end user computing

How it works…

Reducing costs is not priority number one

Knowing our use cases

Complex workstations

Application and services compatibility

Mobility inside the office

Understanding how our desktop configuration impacts our design

How it works…

Full clone desktops

Horizon View Composer linked clones

Floating versus dedicated user assignment

Dedicated user assignment

Floating user assignment

Deciding between persistent and nonpersistent desktops

Persistent desktops

Nonpersistent desktops

Be smart – optimize your desktops!

Determining our Horizon View desktop infrastructure's requirements

How it works…

Key desktop resource requirements

Network adapter bytes total/sec

Physical disk – read/write bytes

Physical disk – reads/writes

The percent processor time

Memory-committed bytes

Horizon View Client's network bandwidth requirements

Client bandwidth estimates

Analyzing our Horizon with View environment

How it works…

Summary

2. Implementing a VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod

Introduction

The VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod overview

Sharing key data in the global data layer

Sending messages between pods

Federated Pod's topology limits

Federated Pod's port requirements

Configuring a VMware Horizon View Federated Pod

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Entitling users or groups in a Horizon View Federated Pod

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Assigning users and groups to Horizon View sites

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more…

Reviewing your Horizon View Federated Pod configuration

Getting ready

How to do it...

Viewing Horizon View global entitlements

Viewing desktop pools in a global entitlement

Viewing AD group entitlements

Viewing AD user entitlements

Viewing AD user-dedicated user assignments

Viewing an AD user account's Horizon View home site

Viewing an AD security group's Horizon View home site

Viewing the Horizon View pods that are members of the federated pod

Viewing the Horizon View sites defined in the federated pod

How it works...

Modifying Horizon View Federated Pod objects

Getting ready

How to do it...

Modifying Horizon View pods

Modifying a Horizon View global entitlement

Modifying Horizon View sites

How it works...

Removing objects from your Federated Pod or global entitlements

Getting ready

How to do it...

Removing a Horizon View pod from a pod federation

Removing a desktop pool from a global entitlement

Removing an AD user or group from a global entitlement

Removing an AD user or group Horizon View home site association

Deleting a Horizon View home site

Deleting a global entitlement

Forcibly removing a Horizon View pod from a Federated Pod

How it works...

Disabling the Horizon View Cloud Pod Architecture feature

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

3. Horizon View Installation, Backup, and Recovery Using the CLI

Introduction

Automating the installation of Horizon View Connection Servers

Getting ready

How to do it...

The sample command-line installation of a standard Horizon View Connection Server

The sample command-line installation of a replica Horizon View Connection Server

The sample command-line installation of a Horizon View Security Server

How it works...

Horizon View Connection Server's command-line options

Horizon View Security Server's command-line options

How to obtain Active Directory object security identifiers

How to set a global Horizon View recovery password

Automating the installation of Horizon View Composer

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Performing Horizon View Connection Server backups

Getting ready

Backing up the vCenter Server database

Backing up the AD LDS database

How it works...

Performing Horizon View Connection Server recoveries

Getting ready

How to do it...

Restoring a single Horizon View Connection Server

Restoring the Horizon View Connection Server AD LDS database

Restoring the VMware vCenter Server database

Removing a Horizon View Connection Server

How it works...

Performing a Horizon Vi...