Book description
A comprehensive, practical guide to accessing virtual desktops, applications, and services through a unified platform
About This Book
- This is the first book on the market that delivers desktops and applications through a single Virtual Desktop Infrastructure platform
- Reduce enterprise costs by dynamically allocating resources with virtual storage, compute and networking
- This comprehensive guide provides simplified operations, improved security, and accelerated time-to-value using VMware Horizon 7
Who This Book Is For
If you are a newcomer to system administration, and you wish to implement the Horizon environment, then this book is for you. Prior knowledge of Horizon is beneficial.
What You Will Learn
- Walk through the configuration of VMware Horizon, including the new Horizon Access Point appliance
- Implement a multi-site VMware Horizon pod using the Cloud Pod Architecture feature
- Understand the integration between VMware Horizon and VSAN, and see how they are deployed together
- Explore how to implement and maintain Microsoft RDS and Linux and Windows Desktop Pools Create and optimize desktop master images.
- Understand how to manage the SSL certificates for each of the VMware Horizon components.
In Detail
VMware Horizon 7 has been a buzz since it was announced. One of the major reasons is the introduction of the new Instant Clones feature. This book will complement the product documentation by providing real-life examples of how it is implemented along with the latest features and components of the platform.
We'll explore the latest features of the platform, including those added through product acquisitions such as User Environment Manager and App Volumes. Further on, you will also be introduced to the new capabilities added to the core product such Linked-Clone RDS pools.
Upon completion of this book, you will have an understanding of the capabilities and benefits VMware Horizon can provide to your organization, and how each of its components are implemented.
Style and approach
This comprehensive guide focuses on the practicality of VMware Horizon and how you can implement it in your organization.
Table of contents
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Implementing VMware Horizon 7 Second Edition
- Implementing VMware Horizon 7 Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. VMware Horizon Infrastructure Overview
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2. Implementing Horizon Connection Server
- Overview of VMware Horizon Connection Server
- Horizon Connection Server requirements
- Horizon installation prerequisites
- Deploying the first Horizon Connection Server
- Configuring the Horizon Instant Clone Engine
- Deploying a Horizon Replica Connection Server
- Upgrading an existing Horizon Connection Server
- Backing up a Horizon Connection Server
- Horizon Connection Server recovery
- Summary
- 3. Implementing Horizon Composer
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4. Implementing Horizon Security Server
- Horizon Security Server overview
- Horizon Security Server limits
- Horizon Security Server additional considerations
- Security Server network requirements
- Installing and configuring Horizon Security Server
- Deploying a Horizon Security Server
- Updating the Horizon Security Server settings
- Horizon Security Server backup
- Horizon Security Server recovery or upgrade
- Summary
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5. Implementing VMware Horizon Access Point
- Horizon Access Point overview
- Horizon Access Point limits
- Horizon Access Point additional considerations
- Horizon Access Point network requirements
- Preparing the infrastructure for a Horizon Access Point
- Deploying a Horizon Access Point
- Troubleshooting a Horizon Access Point deployment
- Updating the Horizon Access Point configuration
- Summary
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6. Implementing a Horizon Cloud Pod
- Horizon Cloud Pod overview
- Configuring a Horizon Cloud Pod
- Creating Cloud Pod Global Entitlements
- Removing a Horizon pod from a Cloud Pod
- Updating the settings of a Global Entitlement
- Determining the effective home site of a user or security group
- Monitoring Global Entitlement Horizon client sessions
- Summary
- 7. Using VMware Virtual SAN with Horizon
- 8. Implementing VMware User Environment Manager
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9. Implementing VMware App Volumes
- App Volumes overview
- App Volumes prerequisites
- Configuring App Volumes Manager
- Deploying additional App Volumes Manager servers
- Installing the App Volumes Agent
- Installing the AppCapture program
- Creating an AppStack
- Assigning AppStacks
- Deleting AppStacks assignments
- Enabling Writable Volumes
- Disabling Writable Volumes
- App Volumes backup and recovery
- App Volumes references
- Summary
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10. Creating Horizon Desktop Pools
- Horizon desktop pool overview
- Desktop pool common terms
- Horizon desktop pool options
- QuickPrep versus Sysprep
- Advantages of linked or Instant Clone desktops
- Considerations for linked and Instant Clone desktops
- Creating a Horizon desktop pool
- Monitoring the desktop creation process
- Common provisioning problems
- Managing Horizon Desktop pool entitlements
- Summary
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11. Implementing Horizon Application Pools
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Configuring a Windows RDS server for use with Horizon
- Windows RDS licensing
- Windows RDS host recommended hardware configuration
- Importing the Horizon RDS AD group policy templates
- Installing the Horizon Agent on the Windows RDS host
- vSphere customization specification for the Windows RDS servers
- Additional resources related to using Windows RDS servers
- Creating a Windows RDS farm in Horizon
- Creating a Horizon application pool
- Using the Horizon client to access application pools
- Monitoring the status of Horizon application pool clients and RDS servers
- Modifying or deleting a Horizon application pool
- Managing a Horizon RDS farm or server
- Summary
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Configuring a Windows RDS server for use with Horizon
- 12. Performing Horizon Desktop Pool Maintenance
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13. Creating a Master Horizon Desktop Image
- The importance of desktop optimization
- Optimization results – Horizon desktop IOPS
- Optimization results – CPU utilization
- Customizing the Windows desktop OS cluster size
- Permanently removing Windows Store applications
- Windows OS pre-deployment tasks
- Removing unwanted application – native update features
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Windows OS optimizations
- Disabling Windows Error Reporting
- Disabling automatic updates
- Removing unnecessary Windows components
- Pre-compiling Microsoft .NET Framework assemblies
- Disabling Windows hibernation
- Disabling Windows System Restore
- Sizing virtual machine RAM properly
- Setting the Windows page file to a fixed size
- Disabling paging the executive
- Disabling Content Indexing of the desktop drive
- Disabling Content Indexing for the remaining file locations
- Disabling unnecessary services
- Removing unnecessary scheduled tasks
- Changing the Group Policy refresh interval
- Disabling the Windows boot animation
- Optimizing the Windows profile
- Summary
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14. Managing Horizon SSL Certificates
- Creating a Local Computer Certificates console
- Requesting a certificate using Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services
- Requesting a certificate with Subject Alternative Names
- Converting a certificate from PFX to PEM format
- Replacing a Horizon Connection Server certificate
- Replacing a Horizon Security Server certificate
- Replacing a Horizon Composer certificate
- Replacing a Horizon Access Point certificate
- Replacing an App Volumes Manager server certificate
- Summary
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15. Using Horizon PowerCLI
- Enabling remote management on Windows
- Viewing all the PowerCLI commands and their options
- Sample data for Horizon PowerCLI commands
- Horizon PowerCLI commands not covered in this chapter
- Configuring the Horizon infrastructure
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Administering Horizon desktop pools
- Create a dedicated assignment persistent linked clone pool
- Create a floating assignment (non-persistent) linked clone pool
- Creating an automatically provisioned full clone desktop pool
- Creating a manually provisioned desktop pool
- Updating the configuration of a Horizon desktop pool
- Refreshing a linked clone desktop or pool
- Recomposing a linked clone desktop pool
- Rebalancing a linked clone desktop pool
- Resetting a Horizon desktop
- Managing Horizon Client entitlements and sessions
- Working with Horizon desktop network label Specifications
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Retrieving information about the Horizon infrastructure
- Retrieving Horizon Composer server information
- Retrieving a list of the Horizon desktop pools
- Retrieving the global Horizon configuration data
- Retrieving the Horizon connection broker information
- Retrieving a list of virtual machines managed by Horizon
- Retrieving the AD user or group information
- Retrieving information about user persistent data disks
- Retrieving the Horizon event reports and their descriptions
- Retrieving the Horizon event reports
- Retrieving the Horizon infrastructure health monitors and their statuses
- Retrieving information about remote Horizon sessions
- Retrieving a list of the vCenter Servers linked to the Horizon environment
- Retrieving the Horizon license information
- Reviewing the desktop pool entitlement
- Summary
Product information
- Title: Implementing VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2016
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781785889301
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