Mastering VMware Horizon 7.8 master desktop virtualization to optimize your end user experience
VMware Horizon 7.8 comes with a rich and adaptive UX, improved security and a range of useful features for storage and networking optimization. This book will focus on the View virtual desktop infrastructure aspects of the solution, whilst also encompassing some of the other Horizon Edition products
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Birmingham, UK
Packt Publishing
2019
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| Edition: | Third edition |
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Instant clone build processInstant clone benefits; View Persona Management; Why do we need to manage user profiles differently in VDI?; The benefits of View Persona Management; VMware UEM; UEM or Persona Management?; Printing from a virtual desktop machine; Managing USB devices; Filtering supported USB devices; Managing multi-function USB devices; ThinApp application virtualization; How does application virtualization work?; Antivirus software for virtual desktops; Protocols
- Delivering the virtual desktop experience; PCoIP; PCoIP host rendering; Multi-codec support with PCoIP
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright and Credits; About Packt; Contributors; Table of Contents; Preface; Section 1: Installation and Configuration; Chapter 1: Introducing VDI and VMware Horizon 7; What is VDI?; VDI high-level architecture
- how does it work?; VDI versus server-based computing (SBC)
- what are the differences?; The benefits of deploying Horizon; The history of VMware and VDI; VMware Horizon 7; VMware Horizon 7 timeline; VMware Horizon 7 product editions; Horizon for Linux; Horizon Standard Edition; Horizon Advanced Edition; Horizon Enterprise Edition; Horizon Apps Standard
- Horizon Apps AdvancedHorizon editions overview and comparison; Horizon user licensing models; Summary; Chapter 2: Understanding Horizon 7 Architecture and Components; Introducing the key Horizon components; High-level architectural overview; The Horizon View Connection Server; How does the connection server work?; Minimum requirements for the connection server; Hardware requirements; Supported OS; The Horizon View security server; How does the security server work?; The Horizon View replica server; How does the replica server work?; The Horizon View enrolment server and True SSO
- Controlling the image qualityDynamic networking capabilities; PCoIP offloading with the Teradici PCoIP Hardware Accelerator; Teradici host card for physical PCs; How the PCoIP connection process works; Blast Extreme; How the Blast Extreme connection process works; Alternative display protocols; RDP; ICA protocol; Which protocol should you use
- Blast Extreme, PCoIP, or RDP?; Horizon View Hardware-accelerated graphics; vSGA; vSGA-supported graphics cards; How many virtual desktops are supported by vSGA?; vDGA; How many virtual desktops are supported with vDGA?; vDGA-supported graphics cards
- VMware Unified Access GatewayPersistent or non-persistent desktops?; Horizon View Composer and linked clones; What is cloning?; What is a full clone?; What are linked clones?; How do linked clones work?; Creating linked clones; Linked clone disk; Persistent disk or user data disk; Disposable disk; Internal disk; Understanding how the linked clone process works; Creating and provisioning a new virtual desktop; Customizing the desktop; Linked clone features and functionality; Recomposing a linked clone; Refreshing a linked clone; Rebalancing operations with View Composer; Instant Clones