Book description
Effectively implement features and components for any computing environment
Key Features
- Explore the latest features of VMware Horizon 7.7
- Virtualize your desktop infrastructure using new features introduced in Horizon
- Implement App Volumes and User Environment Manager in your infrastructure
Book Description
This third edition of Implementing VMware Horizon 7.7 has been updated to get you up to speed with VMware Horizon 7.7 by showing you how to use its key features and deploying an end-user computing infrastructure for your own organization.
The book begins by guiding you on how to deploy all the core requirements for a VMware Horizon infrastructure. It then moves on to show you how to provision and administer end-user computing resources using VMware Horizon. You'll not only be able to deploy the core VMware Horizon features, but you'll also be able to implement new features, such as the Just-in-Time Management Platform (JMP) and the Horizon Console. You'll also focus on the latest features and components of the Horizon platform and learn when and how they are used.
By the end of the book, you will have developed a solid understanding of how your organization can benefit from the capabilities VMware Horizon offers and how each of its components is implemented.
What you will learn
- Work with the different products that make up VMware Horizon
- Implement a multi-site VMware Horizon Pod using the Cloud Pod Architecture feature
- Deploy and configure VMware Horizon's optional components
- Implement and maintain Microsoft RDSH, Horizon Linux, and Windows Desktop Pools and RDSH Application Pools
- Configure and manage Horizon remotely using PowerCLI
- Learn about the Microsoft Windows Group Policy templates for Horizon
- Understand how to manage the SSL certificates for each of the VMware Horizon components
Who this book is for
If you're a system administrator, solutions architect, or desktop engineer looking to level up your skills working with VMware's Horizon ecosystem and want to build a successful deployment strategy for desktops and applications, this book is for you.
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Contributors
- About Packt
- Preface
- VMware Horizon Infrastructure Overview
-
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
- Questions
- Further reading
- Implementing Horizon Composer
-
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
- Questions
- Further reading
-
Implementing Horizon Unified Access Gateway
- Horizon Unified Access Gateway overview
- Horizon Unified Access Gateway limits
- Horizon Unified Access Gateway additional considerations
- Horizon Unified Access Gateway network requirements
- Preparing the infrastructure for a Horizon Unified Access Gateway
- Deploying a Horizon Unified Access Gateway
- Troubleshooting a Horizon Unified Access Gateway deployment
- Updating the Horizon Unified Access Gateway configuration
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
-
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
- Questions
- Further reading
-
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
- Questions
- Further reading
-
Implementing the Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Application and Desktop Pools
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Configuring a Microsoft RDSH server for use with Horizon
- Microsoft RDS licensing
- Microsoft RDSH Server recommended hardware configuration
- Importing the Horizon RDS AD group policy templates
- Installing the Horizon Agent on the Microsoft RDS host
- vSphere customization specification for the Microsoft RDS servers
- Additional resources related to using Microsoft RDS servers
- Creating a Microsoft RDS farm in Horizon
- Creating a Horizon application pool
- Creating an RDS desktop 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
- Questions
- Further reading
-
Configuring a Microsoft RDSH server for use with Horizon
- Performing Horizon Pool Maintenance
-
Creating a Master Virtual 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 an unwanted application – native update features
-
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
- Questions
- Further reading
-
Implementing App Volumes
- App Volumes overview
- App Volumes prerequisites
- Installing App Volumes Manager server
- Configuring App Volumes Manager
- Deploying additional App Volumes Manager servers
- Installing the App Volumes Agent
- Creating an AppStack
- Assigning AppStacks
- Deleting AppStacks assignments
- Enabling Writable Volumes
- Deleting Writable Volumes
- App Volumes backup and recovery
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
- Implementing User Environment Manager
- Implementing the Just-in-Time Management Platform (JMP)
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Using Horizon PowerCLI
- Enabling remote management in Windows
- Establishing a remote Horizon PowerCLI session
- Viewing all the PowerCLI commands and their options
- Configuring the Horizon infrastructure
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Administering Horizon desktop pools
- Creating a dedicated assignment persistent linked clone pool
- Creating 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
- Updating a linked clone pool
- Updating an automatically provisioned full clone pool
- Updating a manually provisioned 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
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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
- Get-DesktopVM - ComposerTask refresh
- 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 infrastructure health monitors and their status
- 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
- Questions
- Further reading
-
Assessments
- Chapter 1, VMware Horizon Infrastructure Overview
- Chapter 2, Implementing Horizon Connection Server
- Chapter 3, Implementing Horizon Composer
- Chapter 4, Implementing Horizon Security Server
- Chapter 5, Implementing Horizon Unified Access Gateway
- Chapter 6, Implementing a Horizon Cloud Pod
- Chapter 7, Creating Horizon Desktop Pools
- Chapter 8, Implementing Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Application and Desktop Pools
- Chapter 9, Performing Horizon Pool Maintenance
- Chapter 10, Creating a Master Virtual Desktop Image
- Chapter 11, Implementing App Volumes
- Chapter 12, Implementing User Environment Manager
- Chapter 13, Implementing the Just-in-Time Management Platform (JMP)
- Chapter 14, Using Horizon PowerCLI
- Chapter 15, Implementing Horizon Group Policies
- Chapter 16, Managing Horizon SSL Certificates
- Other Books You May Enjoy
Product information
- Title: Implementing VMware Horizon 7.7 - Third Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2019
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781789617849
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