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    VMware Horizon View Essentials
    VMware Horizon View Essentials
    VMware Horizon View Essentials
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    VMware Horizon View Essentials

    By Peter von Oven

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateOct 27, 2014
    ISBN9781784396602
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      VMware Horizon View Essentials - Peter von Oven

      Table of Contents

      VMware Horizon View Essentials

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

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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

      VMware Horizon View Essentials

      VMware Horizon View Essentials

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      Credits

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      Peter von Oven

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      About the Author

      Peter von Oven is an experienced technical consultant and has spent the last 20 years of his IT career working with customers and partners, designing technology solutions aimed at delivering true business value. Throughout his career, he has been involved with numerous large-scale enterprise projects and deployments, presented at key IT events, and worked in senior presales roles for some of the giants of IT. Over the last 8 years, he has focused his skills and experience on the desktop virtualization market. Today, he not only leads the End User Computing Systems Engineering team at VMware UK&I—delivering the next generation of end user computing and mobile cloud solutions—but is also the SE manager of the partner and general business SE team.

      Peter got his first taste of writing when assisting with some of the chapters in Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View, Mike Laverick and Barry Coombs, Mike Laverick Ltd. Later, he wrote VMware Horizon Mirage Essentials and co-authored VMware Horizon Workspace Essentials; both of these books were published by Packt Publishing. He is currently co-authoring Mastering VMware Horizon, Packt Publishing, which will be published in late 2014.

      I would like to dedicate this book to the memory of my late grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of 2014, sadly. She was an inspiration to me and could always be relied upon for her support, advice, and words of wisdom. She will be truly missed.

      There are also a couple of people I want to thank for the continued and ongoing support they have given me during the writing of this book. Firstly, and most importantly, I would like to thank my wife and our two young daughters for their continued support while I spent evenings and weekends writing—I couldn't have done this without your support. Secondly, thanks to the Packt Publishing team for giving me the opportunity to write this book and for their support, which has been outstanding yet again.

      About the Reviewers

      Biswapati Bhattacharjee is a seasoned professional in the field of information technology. So far, he has played many roles in various domains in his professional life, ranging from quality engineering, performance benchmarking, presales technical, and project management to customer interaction, ISV partner management, and technical consultancy. He has worked on many projects with different teams spread across the globe.

      Biswapati has extensive experience in VMware VDI. He was part of the QA team when VMware acquired Propero's desktop solution product and released VDM 2.0. In addition to VDI, he worked with VMware ISV partners in the areas of server, BCDR, and cloud solutions for the performance and functional validation of ISV products.

      He is also a speaker at VMworld, where he has discussed VMware Virtual SAN™ and ISV applications' performance characterization in the areas of VMware Horizon View and VMware VDI solutions. He has many published papers and deployment guides on ISV applications in VMware-virtualized platforms.

      He received his Bachelors of Engineering degree from Regional Engineering College (now National Institute of Technology), India. He can be found on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/biswapatibhattacharjee/. This is his first book review.

      I would like to thank my wife, Chandrima, for her continuous encouragement and support and our lovely daughter, Bidushi, who never fails to inspire me.

      I also want to thank my parents—Gauri (my mom) and Nishithendu (my dad)—for always believing in me and my brothers—Basudeb and Vivekananda—for their guidance.

      I take this opportunity to express my gratitude to all the people who have been instrumental in the successful completion of this book review. This critical work would not have been possible without my extended family—my sisters-in-law, Pompa and Nivedita; my niece, Satakshi; my nephew, Vishok; my brother in-law, Chitrarath; and my parents-in-law, Ratna and Chinmoy.

      Abhilash HB is a passionate cloud services engineer who loves virtualization and cloud computing. He is an avid blogger at http://vpirate.in. VMware has recognized him as a VMware vExpert under the Evangelist Path for his contribution to the virtualization and cloud computing communities through knowledge sharing and content creation. He is also recognized as a PernixPro™ by PernixData. He is an expert contributor at https://www.1cloudroad.com.

      He holds numerous technical certifications from EMC, VMware, Cisco, Microsoft, and Rackspace. He is an active member of the VMTN community.

      You can follow him on Twitter at @abhilashhb or on LinkedIn at in.linkedin.com/in/abhilashhb/.

      J. Powell is an active proponent of VMware's virtualization technologies for small businesses and nonprofit organizations with a focus on Horizon View and vCenter. He is a senior system engineer at Nine Virtual Technologies (www.ninevirtualtech.com).

      He has over a decade of IT experience in enterprise infrastructure design, implementation, and administration. He holds certifications from VMware and is active on their community forums.

      In addition to his IT experience, he has owned and operated a fine-dining restaurant in North Carolina, the Fifty Fifty Lounge and Grill. He currently resides in Indianapolis, Indiana, with his beautiful wife, Dena, and their daughter, Parker.

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      Preface

      It's a tricky balancing act to manage a physical desktop estate and the challenges that it brings in delivering an improved and more flexible level of service to your end users while lowering management costs. It's a near-impossible task that IT administrators face today. This is where the latest VMware technology comes into play and helps you solve these challenges.

      VMware Horizon View is a platform that delivers centralized, virtual desktop machines hosted on a server running a hypervisor and located in a data center. The end user then remotely connects to their virtual desktop machine from their end point device, such as a Windows laptop, Apple Mac, or tablet device. This technology, first introduced by VMware in 2002, is what is now known as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, or VDI.

      VDI provides users with the freedom to work in a way that suits them, freeing them from the restrictions of not having to be in the office but also allowing them the choice of the device they use. This makes them more productive, and ultimately, your business more agile.

      From an IT administrator's perspective, VDI allows you to centrally manage your desktop environment, from being able to manage desktop images to the ease of adding and removing user entitlements—all controlled from a single management console.

      Horizon View 6.0 is VMware's latest virtual desktop solution designed to centralize and virtualize your desktop environment using the market-leading virtualization features and technology within VMware's Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) portfolio. Horizon View 6.0 builds upon this technology platform to deliver a rich user experience, enabling BYOD, flexible working, and enhanced security, to name but a few.

      Delivering an end user experience requires a different approach from other infrastructure-based initiatives. Getting this right is the key for a project to have a successful outcome, and this book will show you how.

      What this book covers

      Chapter 1, Introducing VDI and VMware Horizon 6.0, introduces what VDI is and how it compares with other VDI-type technologies. We will then cover the VMware VDI story and history in brief, followed by an overview of the latest solution.

      Chapter 2, Horizon View 6.0 Architectural and Feature Overview, introduces you to the different components that make up the Horizon View solution. Each section will start with an overview of a specific feature or component, describing its role in the overall solution, how it fits into the infrastructure, and in some

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