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Mastering VMware Horizon 7.8 Third Edition

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Section 1: Installation and Configuration

Introducing VDI and VMware Horizon 7

What is VDI?

VDI high-level architecture – how does it work?

VDI versus server-based computing (SBC) – what are the differences?

The benefits of deploying Horizon

The history of VMware and VDI

VMware Horizon 7

VMware Horizon 7 timeline

VMware Horizon 7 product editions

Horizon for Linux

Horizon Standard Edition

Horizon Advanced Edition

Horizon Enterprise Edition

Horizon Apps Standard

Horizon Apps Advanced

Horizon editions overview and comparison

Horizon user licensing models

Summary

Understanding Horizon 7 Architecture and Components

Introducing the key Horizon components

High-level architectural overview

The Horizon View Connection Server

How does the connection server work?

Minimum requirements for the connection server

Hardware requirements

Supported OS

The Horizon View security server

How does the security server work?

The Horizon View replica server

How does the replica server work?

The Horizon View enrolment server and True SSO

VMware Unified Access Gateway

Persistent or non-persistent desktops?

Horizon View Composer and linked clones

What is cloning?

What is a full clone?

What are linked clones?

How do linked clones work?

Creating linked clones

Linked clone disk

Persistent disk or user data disk

Disposable disk

Internal disk

Understanding how the linked clone process works

Creating and provisioning a new virtual desktop

Customizing the desktop

Linked clone features and functionality

Recomposing a linked clone

Refreshing a linked clone

Rebalancing operations with View Composer

Instant Clones

Instant clone build process

Instant clone benefits

View Persona Management

Why do we need to manage user profiles differently in VDI?

The benefits of View Persona Management

VMware UEM

UEM or Persona Management?

Printing from a virtual desktop machine

Managing USB devices

Filtering supported USB devices

Managing multi-function USB devices

ThinApp application virtualization

How does application virtualization work?

Antivirus software for virtual desktops

Protocols – Delivering the virtual desktop experience

PCoIP

PCoIP host rendering

Multi-codec support with PCoIP

Controlling the image quality

Dynamic networking capabilities

PCoIP offloading with the Teradici PCoIP Hardware Accelerator

Teradici host card for physical PCs

How the PCoIP connection process works

Blast Extreme

How the Blast Extreme connection process works

Alternative display protocols

RDP

ICA protocol

Which protocol should you use – Blast Extreme, PCoIP, or RDP?

Horizon View Hardware-accelerated graphics

vSGA

vSGA-supported graphics cards

How many virtual desktops are supported by vSGA?

vDGA

How many virtual desktops are supported with vDGA?

vDGA-supported graphics cards

vGPU

How many virtual desktops are supported with vGPU?

Unified communications support

How do unified communications work now?

Support for Microsoft Skype

Real-Time Audio-Video (RTAV)

The issue

How does RTAV fix this issue?

URL Content Redirection

Horizon clients

Summary

Design and Deployment Considerations

Phase I – Project definition

Step 1 – Identifying business drivers – understanding your needs and requirements

Step 2 – Building the business case

Step 3 – Assessment

User experience and desktop analysis tools

Understanding what do your users really do

Applications

Performance

End user experience

Floor walks, interviews, and department champions

What are department champions?

Step 4 – Defining the success criteria

Phase II – Proving the technology

Proof of concept (POC)

Proof of technology (POT)

Pilot

Step 1 – Pilot design

Step 2 – Deploying the pilot

Step 3 – Testing the pilot

Step 4 – Reviewing the pilot

Phase III – Designing a production environment

Technology choices

Use case example – Scenario 1

Solution recommendation

Use case example – Scenario 2

Solution recommendation

Use case example – Scenario 3

Solution recommendation

Use case example – Scenario 4

Solution recommendation

Conclusions

Preparing for production

Horizon View pod and block architecture

Cloud Pod Architecture

vSphere design for Horizon View

Configuration maximums

ESXi host servers

CPU and memory requirements for ESXi

Overcommitting CPU and memory resources

CPU and memory sizing

Networking

Graphics

Storage

Storage capacity

Storage performance

Horizon View design specifics

The Horizon View Connection Server

The Horizon View Replica Server

The Horizon View Security Server

The Horizon View Enrolment Server

The Horizon View Composer

vCenter Servers

VMware Access Point

Configuration maximums

Networking

Load balancing

Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH) design considerations

Supporting infrastructure design

Database requirements

File servers

IP addressing

Antivirus

Active Directory Group Policy

Functionality

Lockdown

Performance and management

Key Management Server (KMS)

Printing

Thin clients and other endpoint devices

Desktop design considerations

Pool design

Sizing the virtual desktop machines

Sizing the host server's CPU requirements to run virtual desktops

Light user

Medium user

Heavy user

Sizing the host server's memory requirements to run virtual desktops

Linked Clone, Instant Clone, or Full Clone

Persistent versus non-persistent

Building a composite desktop

Base layer

Applications

User profiles and user environment management

Disaster recovery and backup

Backup and recovery options

Disaster recovery options

Example solution scenario

End user requirements

Application developers

Office workers

Contractors

Engineering

Sales

Desktop pool design

Sizing the desktop blocks

Sizing the storage requirements

Sizing the management blocks

Network sizing and requirements

Summary

Installing and Configuring Horizon 7 - Part 1

Welcome to the lab environment

What you need for the example lab

Preparing AD

AD user accounts

vCenter user accounts

View Composer user account

View desktop Organizational Units (OUs)

IP addressing and DNS requirements

Installing Horizon View Composer Server

Configuring SQL Server for a View Composer database

View Composer installation

Installing the Horizon View Connection Server

Initial configuration of the Horizon View Connection Server

Adding a license to the Connection Server

Adding vCenter Server to View Administrator

Configuring the View events database

Summary

Installing and Configuring Horizon 7 - Part 2

Installing a Horizon View Replica Server

Installing a Security Server

Preparing View Administrator for the Security Server install

Security Server software installation

Installing an Enrollment Server

Configuring Cloud Pod Architecture

Initializing the Cloud Pod

Connecting the second pod to the Cloud Pod

Entitling users to the Cloud Pod

Configuring View for GPU-enabled virtual desktops

Configuring the ESXi host servers

Summary

Section 2: Building and Delivering the Virtual Desktop Experience

Securing Horizon View with SSL Certificates

Horizon View and SSL certificates

What is a CA?

Why do I need SSL certificates for Horizon View?

Installing SSL certificates for Horizon View

Installing a root CA

Root CA post-deployment configuration tasks

Installing an SSL certificate on the View Connection Server

Post-certificate enrollment configuration tasks

Horizon View True SSO

Preparing AD for True SSO

Creating a certificate template for TrueSSO

Issuing the TrueSSO certificate template

Certificate deployment

Configuring True SSO on the Connection Server

Summary

Building and Optimizing the Virtual Desktop OS

Best practices for building virtual desktop images

Technical requirements

Creating a Windows 7 virtual desktop machine

Creating the virtual desktop machine container

Updating the virtual desktop machine BIOS

Operating system installation options

Installing the guest operating system

Installing VMware Tools

Installing applications for the parent image

Installing the Horizon Agent

Optimizing the guest operating system

Post-optimization tasks

Creating a Windows 10 virtual desktop machine

Creating the virtual desktop machine container

Completing the Windows 10 build

Creating a GPU-enabled virtual desktop machine

Creating the virtual desktop machine container

Installing the operating system for GPU-enabled desktops

Completing the GPU-enabled desktop build

Creating a Linux virtual desktop machine

Completing the Linux virtual desktop build

Installing the Horizon Agent

Optimizing the guest operating system

Preparing virtual desktops for delivery

Pool design – a quick overview

Creating a snapshot for linked clones

Creating a snapshot for instant clones

Creating a template for full clones

Summary

Configuring and Managing Desktop Pools - Part 1

Types of desktop pools

Automated desktop pools

Creating dedicated, Linked Clone desktop pools

Using the Horizon View Administrator Console

General settings

Remote Settings

Remote Desktop Protocol settings

Adobe Flash Settings

Desktop Pool Sizing

vCenter Settings

Advanced Storage Options

Horizon Console method

Creating dedicated, Full Clone desktop pools

Summary

Configuring and Managing Desktop Pools - Part 2

Creating floating, Linked Clone desktop pools

Creating floating, Full Clone desktop pools

Creating floating, Instant Clone desktop pools

Configuring the Instant Clone domain administrator

Creating the Instant Clone desktop pool

Creating a manual desktop pool

Adding end user entitlements

Adding user entitlement using the Horizon View Administrator Classic console

Adding user entitlement using the new Horizon console

Managing Linked Clone desktop pools

Recomposing a Linked Clone desktop pool

Refreshing a Linked Clone desktop pool

Rebalancing a Linked Clone desktop pool

Managing persistent disks

Detaching a persistent disk

Attaching a persistent disk

Reviewing the infrastructure post-deployment

Summary

Fine-Tuning the End User Experience

Configuring and preparing AD

Importing and applying Horizon View ADMX templates

Creating an organizational unit (OU)

Creating Group Policy Objects (GPO) for Horizon View

Enabling the loopback policy

Configuring Horizon View policy settings

PCoIP Client Session Variables

PCoIP Session Variables

VMware Blast

VMware Horizon Client Configuration

Scripting definitions

Security Settings

View USB Configuration

Settings not configurable by Agent

VMware Horizon URL Redirection

Horizon View Agent Configuration

Agent Configuration

Agent Security

Collaboration

Persona Management

Desktop UI

Folder Redirection

Logging

Roaming and Synchronization

Troubleshooting

Scanner Redirection

Serial COM

PortSettings

Smartcard Redirection

Local Reader Access

True SSO Configuration

Unity Touch and Hosted Apps

View Agent Direct-Connection Configuration

View RTAV Configuration

View RTAV Webcam Settings

View USB Configuration

Client Downloadable only Settings

VMware Client IP Transparency

VMware Device Bridge

VMware Flash MMR

VMware HTML5 Features

VMware Geolocation Redirection

VMware HTML5 Multimedia Redirection

VMware Virtualization Pack for Skype for Business

VMware View Common Configuration

Log Configuration

Performance Alarms

Security Configuration

VMware View Server Configuration

PCoIP tuning tool

Activate Profile

Manage Profiles

Clear Profile Settings

Show Session Stats

Show Session Health

Teradici support tools for PCoIP

Monitoring the end user experience

Summary

Section 3: Advanced Features, Troubleshooting, and Upgrading an Environment

Delivering Published Apps with Horizon 7

Architectural overview

Application connection sequence

RDSH sizing guidelines

Installing and configuring View-hosted apps

Configuring the RDS server role

Testing with the standard remote applications

Installing additional applications

Installing the Horizon Agent for RDSH

Configuring published apps in the View Administrator

Creating an application pool for published apps

Entitling users to application pools

Load-balancing published apps in Horizon View

Summary

Horizon Client Options

VMware Horizon Clients

Horizon Client for Windows

Horizon Client for Android

Horizon Client for iOS

Horizon Client for Linux

Horizon Client for macOS

Horizon Client for Chrome OS

Hardware clients

Thin clients

Zero Clients

Repurposed PCs (software-defined thin clients)

Accessing the desktop using a browser

Summary

Upgrading to a New Version of Horizon

Upgrading compatibility

Upgrading Horizon Composer

Before you begin the upgrade

Completing the View Composer upgrade

Verifying the upgrade

Upgrading the Horizon View Connection Server

Before you begin the upgrade

Completing the Connection Server upgrade

Alternative View Connection Server upgrade method

Upgrading the View Security Server

Before you begin the upgrade

Completing the View Security Server upgrade

Upgrading group policy templates

Upgrading the VMware Horizon Agent

Upgrading the Horizon Client

Summary

JMP and VMware Horizon 7 Deployment Considerations

How does JMP work?

VMware Workspace ONE

VMware App Volumes

How does App Volumes work? Step 1 – app capture

How does App Volumes work? Step 2 – app delivery

Installing and configuring JMP

Prerequisites

VMware JMP component requirements

VMware JMP hardware requirements

VMware JMP software requirements

Installing the JMP Server

Syncing the time with Horizon Connection Server

Adding JMP Server and its components to Horizon

JMP assignments

Summary

Troubleshooting

General troubleshooting tips

Look at the bigger picture

Is the issue affecting more than one user?

Performance issues

When a user reports performance issues

Non-VDI related issues

Bandwidth, connectivity, and networking

Compute resources

Disk

Troubleshooting Horizon View issues

Horizon View general infrastructure issues

View infrastructure component issues

Fixing View Composer issues with the ViewDBChk tool

vRealize Operations for Horizon

Liquidware Stratusphere UX

Getting further help

Summary

What is New in Horizon 7

Operating system and infrastructure updates

Horizon management updates

Horizon console updates

View Administrator updates

Help Desk Tool updates

Scalability

Enhancements to the end user experience

Linux virtual desktop machine updates

Platform updates

Horizon Console updates

Scalability

RDSH improvements

Horizon with VMware Cloud on AWS

Horizon Agent updates

Windows Agent

Linux Agent

Horizon Client

Summary

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