VMware Horizon View Essentials

Successfully design, install, and configure an end-to-end VDI infrastructure with VMware Horizon View

About This Book

• Learn how to design, implement, secure, and optimize the performance of a VDI project
• Revolutionize the way you manage your desktop infrastructure, while delivering a superior user experience
• Step-by-step guide and provides screen shots that allow you to follow and set up your lab, complete with real-life scenarios.

Who This Book Is For

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.

In Detail

Our journey with VMware Horizon View 6.0 begins with taking a look at how the technology came about and the benefits it can deliver to an organization. We then start shaping an infrastructure through all the key project stages from assessment to pilot and then to production deployment. Moving forward, with the help of scenario-based examples, we will demonstrate how to approach the design phase.

Once we have our design in place, armed with the information we gathered in the beginning phases, we will install and configure the key components such as the Connection Server, security server, replica server, and View Composer. With the infrastructure ready, we will concentrate on building and optimizing the virtual desktop machines before we start assigning our users to fine-tune it for the best end user experience. This book will help you build high performance remote desktops while empowering them to reduce the need for constant support and maintenance costs.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introducing VDI and VMware Horizon 6.0
Chapter 2. Horizon View 6.0 Architectural and Feature Overview
Chapter 3. Designing and Building a Horizon View 6.0 Infrastructure
Chapter 4. Installing Horizon View 6.0
Chapter 5. A Guided Tour of the Horizon View Administrator Console
Chapter 6. Building and Optimizing Virtual Desktop Machine OS Images
Chapter 7. Configuring Horizon View to Deliver Virtual Desktops
Chapter 8. Horizon View Clients
Chapter 9. Fine-tuning the End User Experience