Implementing VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition电子书

Implementing VMware Horizon 7 Second Edition

Implementing VMware Horizon 7 Second Edition

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About the Author

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Preface

Why virtualize our end user computing resources?

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. VMware Horizon Infrastructure Overview

VMware Horizon components

Horizon Connection Server

Horizon Security Server

Horizon Access Point

Horizon Enrollment Server

VMware vSphere

VMware vCenter Server

Horizon Composer

Horizon Agent

Horizon Client

VMware App Volumes

VMware User Environment Manager

VMware ThinApp

VMware Horizon licensing

VMware Horizon core infrastructure requirements

Microsoft infrastructure requirements

Operating system requirements

Database requirements

vCenter Server requirements

Horizon Agent supported operating systems

VMware Horizon design overview

Measuring Virtual Desktop resource requirements

The need for vSphere reserve capacity

Providing sufficient Horizon Client bandwidth

The importance of a VMware Horizon pilot

Performance is the key

Summary

2. Implementing Horizon Connection Server

Overview of VMware Horizon Connection Server

Horizon Connection Server requirements

Hardware requirements

Software requirements

Limits of a Horizon Connection Server

Load balancing Connection Servers

Load-balancing appliances

vCenter Server requirements

Horizon installation prerequisites

Infrastructure and other prerequisites

Create a vCenter role and grant permissions

Horizon event database

Deploying the first Horizon Connection Server

Installing the first Horizon Connection Server

Configuring the first Horizon Connection Server

Configuring the Horizon Instant Clone Engine

Configuring the Instant Clone Engine AD user account

Update the Instant Clone Engine Domain Administrator setting

Deploying a Horizon Replica Connection Server

Installing a Horizon Replica Connection Server

Upgrading an existing Horizon Connection Server

Upgrading prerequisites

Backing up the existing Horizon configuration

Horizon upgrade process

Backing up a Horizon Connection Server

Backing up the vCenter Server database

Backing up the Horizon AD LDS database

Horizon Connection Server recovery

Restoring a single Horizon Connection Server

Removing a Horizon Connection Server

Restoring the vCenter database

Restoring the Horizon Connection Server AD LDS database

Summary

3. Implementing Horizon Composer

Overview of VMware Horizon Composer

Refreshing linked clone desktops

Recomposing linked clone desktops

Horizon Composer requirements

Hardware requirements

Limits of Horizon Composer

Horizon Composer installation prerequisites

Horizon Composer service account

Horizon Composer vCenter permissions

Create a Horizon Composer vCenter role and grant permissions

Horizon Composer Active Directory permissions

Delegate permissions for Horizon Composer in Active Directory

Horizon Composer database

Deploying Horizon Composer

Installing Horizon Composer

Configuring Horizon Composer

Backing up Horizon Composer

Backing up the Horizon Composer database

Backing up the Horizon Composer SSL certificates

Horizon Composer recovery

Restoring the Horizon Composer database

Restoring the Horizon Composer SSL certificates

Restoring Horizon Composer with a new default SSL certificate

Restoring Horizon Composer with a custom SSL certificate

Summary

4. Implementing Horizon Security Server

Horizon Security Server overview

Horizon Security Server limits

Horizon Security Server additional considerations

High availability overview

Security Server network requirements

Installing and configuring Horizon Security Server

Installation prerequisites

Security Server pairing password

Deploying a Horizon Security Server

Enable PCoIP Secure Gateway

Installing a Horizon Security Server

Updating the Horizon Security Server settings

Horizon Security Server options

Horizon Security Server backup

Horizon Security Server recovery or upgrade

Summary

5. Implementing VMware Horizon Access Point

Horizon Access Point overview

Horizon Access Point limits

Horizon Access Point additional considerations

High availability overview

Horizon Access Point network requirements

Preparing the infrastructure for a Horizon Access Point

Installation prerequisites

Deploying a Horizon Access Point

Configuring the Connection Servers

Deploying a Horizon Access Point

Troubleshooting a Horizon Access Point deployment

Updating the Horizon Access Point configuration

Summary

6. Implementing a Horizon Cloud Pod

Horizon Cloud Pod overview

Sharing key data in the Horizon Cloud Pod Global Data Layer

Sending messages between Horizon pods

Cloud Pod port requirements

Cloud Pod topology limits

Configuring a Horizon Cloud Pod

Configuring Horizon sites

Associating users with Horizon sites

Creating Cloud Pod Global Entitlements

Create and configure a Global Entitlement for a Horizon desktop pool

Create and configure a Global Entitlement for a Horizon application pool

Removing a Horizon pod from a Cloud Pod

Updating the settings of a Global Entitlement

Editing the general 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

Introduction

Common VMware Virtual SAN terms

Sizing a Horizon environment for Virtual SAN

ESXi Server CPU requirements

VSAN disk requirements

Determining the total number of ESXi server disks required

Magnetic disk capacity sizing

Flash capacity sizing

Sample VSAN storage sizing exercise

Calculating the total number of VSAN objects required

Virtual SAN and the vSphere VSAN SPBM framework

Number of disk stripes per object

Flash read cache reservation (%)

Number of Failures to Tolerate

Object space reservation (%)

VMware Virtual SAN configuration overview

Deploy VMware Virtual SAN

Configuring the ESXi server Virtual SAN VMkernel adapters

Enabling and configuring VSAN

Using VSAN with VMware Horizon

Summary

8. Implementing VMware User Environment Manager

User Environment Manager overview

User Environment Manager pre-installation tasks

Configuration share

Persona share

Windows user folder redirection share

Group policy files

Installing the User Environment Manager Agent

Configuring User Environment Manager

Installing the User Environment Manager management console

Easy Start configuration

Easy Start defaults

User Environment Manager group policy settings

UEM user policies

UEM computer policies

Windows folder redirection

Advanced UEM configuration examples

Personalization

Application profile Import / Export feature

User Environment

Shortcut management feature

Summary

9. Implementing VMware App Volumes

App Volumes overview

App Volumes prerequisites

vCenter permissions

Configuring App Volumes Manager

Deploying additional App Volumes Manager servers

Deploy additional App Volumes Manager servers in a single vCenter environment

Deploying App Volumes in Multi-site and Multi-vCenter Environments

Installing the App Volumes Agent

Configuring native load balancing for the App Volumes Agent software

Installing the AppCapture program

Creating an AppStack

Updating an AppStack

Assigning AppStacks

Deleting AppStacks assignments

Enabling Writable Volumes

Disabling Writable Volumes

App Volumes backup and recovery

What to backup

Recovery process

App Volumes references

Summary

10. Creating Horizon Desktop Pools

Horizon desktop pool overview

Desktop pool common terms

Horizon desktop pool options

Horizon Composer linked clones

Instant Clone desktops

Full clone desktops

Linux desktops

QuickPrep versus Sysprep

Advantages of linked or Instant Clone desktops

Considerations for linked and Instant Clone desktops

Creating a Horizon desktop pool

Creating a pool using Horizon Composer linked clones

Creating a pool using Horizon Instant Clones

Creating a pool using full clones

Monitoring the desktop creation process

Horizon Administrator console

The vSphere Web client task window

Common provisioning problems

Managing Horizon Desktop pool entitlements

Summary

11. Implementing Horizon Application Pools

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

12. Performing Horizon Desktop Pool Maintenance

An overview of instant and linked clone maintenance

Instant clone parent image update

Linked clone desktop refresh

Linked clone desktop recompose

Linked clone desktop rebalance

Managing Horizon maintenance tasks

Global settings for Horizon maintenance

Logoff warning and timeout

Concurrent maintenance operations

Storage overcommit

Updating datastore storage overcommit settings

Performing linked clone desktop maintenance

Refreshing linked clone desktops

Refreshing individual desktops

Recomposing linked clone desktops

Recomposing individual desktops

Rebalancing linked clone desktops

Rebalancing individual desktops

Performing instant clone desktop maintenance

Updating the instant clone desktop parent image

Recover an individual instant clone desktop

Managing Horizon Composer persistent disks

Detaching persistent disks

Recreating a desktop using a persistent disk

Attaching a detached persistent disk to an existing desktop

Importing a persistent disk

Summary

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

Customizing the Windows cluster size during the installation process

Permanently removing Windows Store applications

Windows OS pre-deployment tasks

Installing VMware Tools

Removing unwanted application – native update features

Disabling the Adobe Acrobat Reader DC update feature

Disabling the Java updater utility

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

SuperFetch

Removing unnecessary scheduled tasks

Changing the Group Policy refresh interval

Disabling the Windows boot animation

Optimizing the Windows profile

Adjusting for best performance

Turning off system sounds

Disabling the Windows background and screen saver

Summary

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

15. Using Horizon PowerCLI

Enabling remote management on Windows

Enabling WinRM

Establishing a remote Horizon PowerCLI session

Viewing all the PowerCLI commands and their options

Listing all Horizon PowerCLI commands

Displaying the options for a single PowerCLI command

Sample data for Horizon PowerCLI commands

Horizon PowerCLI commands not covered in this chapter

Configuring the Horizon infrastructure

Adding a vCenter Server to Horizon

Updating the settings of vCenter Server that is linked to Horizon

Removing a vCenter Server from Horizon

Updating the Horizon connection broker settings

Updating the Horizon global settings

Configuring the Horizon license

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

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

Adding desktop pool entitlements

Removing desktop pool entitlements

Entitling or un-entitling an individual desktop

Disconnecting the Horizon Client session

Logging off the Horizon Client session

Working with Horizon desktop network label Specifications

Sample network label specification file

Export a linked clone network label specification

Exporting a full clone network label specification

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