VMware Horizon View Essentials电子书

VMware Horizon View Essentials

Table of Contents

VMware Horizon View Essentials

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

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 Edition

Horizon Advanced Edition

Horizon Enterprise Edition

Summary

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

How do linked clones work?

What does View Composer build?

The linked-clone disk

The persistent disk or user data disk

The disposable disk

The 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 machines

The VMware vShield Endpoint architecture

The PCoIP protocol – delivering the desktop experience

An introduction to PCoIP

Other protocols – Remote Desktop Protocol

What are the key differences between PCoIP and RDP?

Hardware-accelerated graphics in Horizon View

Virtual Shared Graphics Acceleration

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

3. Designing and Building a Horizon View 6.0 Infrastructure

Proving 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

vCenter Servers

Sizing the desktop host servers

CPU sizing considerations

Light user

Medium user

Heavy user

Memory sizing considerations

Networking considerations

Storage

Delivering high-end graphics

Virtual shared graphics acceleration considerations

vSGA Supported Configurations

How many virtual desktops are supported with vSGA?

Virtual dedicated graphics acceleration considerations

vDGA supported configurations

How many virtual desktops are supported with vDGA?

Sizing the virtual desktop machines

Pool design

User assignments – dedicated or floating desktops?

Choosing the right client device

An example design exercise

User requirements

The pool design

Sizing the desktop blocks

Sizing the storage requirements

Sizing the management blocks

The network requirements

Summary

4. Installing Horizon View 6.0

Preparing for the installation

Welcome to our lab environment

What you need for the example lab

Downloading the software

SSL certificates for Horizon View

Setting up a Root CA server

Adding the Root CA role

Installing a certificate on the connection server

Installing the Horizon View Connection Server

The minimum requirements of a connection server

Hardware requirements

Software requirements – supported operating systems

The installation process

Installing the View security server

Installing the View replica server

Installing View Composer

Post-installation configuration tasks of the connection server

Installing the certificate after the connection server installation

Licensing Horizon View

Adding vCenter Server and View Composer

View events database

Summary

5. A Guided Tour of the Horizon View Administrator Console

What is Horizon View Administrator?

Horizon View Administrator console UI

Dashboard

System Health

Machine Status

Datastores

Inventory

Users and Groups

Catalog

Resources

Monitoring

View events monitoring

View session monitoring

Global Policies

View Configuration

Global Settings

Administrators

Event Configuration

Summary

6. Building and Optimizing Virtual Desktop Machine OS Images

Creating the virtual desktop machine

Creating the virtual machine in the vCenter Server

Configuring the virtual desktop machine BIOS

Updating the BIOS settings

Starting the guest operating system installation

Installing VMware Tools

Installing applications and the View Agent

Optimizing the image

Optimizing the image using the commands.bat process

VMware OS Optimization Tool

Post-optimization

Building a GPU-enabled virtual desktop machine

Configuring the ESXi host and vCenter Server

Building the virtual desktop machine

Installing the operating system for GPU-enabled desktops

Preparing the image for users

Creating a template for a full-clone virtual desktop machine

Creating a snapshot for linked clones

Preparing the GPU-enabled virtual desktop machine

Summary

7. Configuring Horizon View to Deliver Virtual Desktops

Configuring a linked-clone desktop pool

General

Remote Settings

Remote Display Protocol

Adobe Flash Settings for Sessions

Mirage Settings

Entitling users to a desktop pool

Configuring a full-clone desktop pool

Creating a desktop pool for high-end graphics

Summary

8. Horizon View Clients

The Horizon View software client

Downloading the Horizon View Clients

Horizon View Client for Windows platforms

Launching and configuring the Horizon View Client

Testing the connection to the desktop

Horizon View Client for Mac

Horizon View Client for iPad

Browser-based desktop access

Hardware-based clients and thin clients

Zero clients

Thin clients

Summary

9. Fine-tuning the End User Experience

Active Directory prerequisites

Creating an organizational unit

Creating Group Policy Objects for Horizon View

Importing and applying the Horizon View ADM templates

Enabling the loopback policy

Example policy settings

The PCoIP tuning tool

Summary

A. References

The VMware official documentation

The software's download pages and tools

Summary

Index