VMware horizon 6 desktop virtualization solutions : plan, design, and secure your virtual desktop environments with VMware horizon 6 view / Ryan Cartwright [and three others] ; cover image by Aniket Sawant.

Includes index.

"Professional Expertise Distilled"--Cover.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 3, 2014).

Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Components of VMware Horizon View 6; The core components of VMware Horizon View 6; vCenter Server; View Connection Server; Types of VMware View Connection Servers; View Manager; Precreated Active Directory machine accounts; vCenter and View Composer''s advanced settings; The Phone Home option; Feature Pack; View Agent; Horizon Client; Improved end user experience; Real-Time Audio-Video; View Composer (an optional component); Understanding View Composer.

Using SQL Express installation for View ComposerSnapshots and linked clones; Templates; Full provisioning versus linked clones; Types of disks for vDesktops; OS disk; Secondary OS disk; User data disk; Temp data disk; Many options of disk types and redirection; Thin provisioning versus thick provisioning; Actions for linked clones -- Reset, Refresh, Recompose, and Rebalance; Reset; Refresh; Recompose; Rebalance; View Composer Array Integration (VCAI); VMware Horizon editions; Summary; Chapter 2: Solution Methodology; Assessment; Questionnaire; Assessment worksheet for VMware View desktops.

Metric collectionProcessing the data; Discussion; Plan (define use cases); Design; Storage; Isolation at the data store level; vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI); View Storage Accelerator; Networking; Compute; VMware vSphere and View desktop pool infrastructure; Pod architecture; Application distribution infrastructure; What is a user persona?; User persona management; Connection infrastructure; End devices; People (the end user experience); Pilot and validate; The VMware View Planner tool (formerly VMware RAWC); Comparing storage platforms; Implementation; User migration.

Hand-off and manageSummary; Chapter 3: Persistent or Nonpersistent vDesktops; Persistent desktops; Example scenario; Nonpersistent desktops; Example scenario; Notes and considerations for nonpersistent vDesktops; Multisite solutions; Why is a nonpersistent vDesktop best for a multisite?; Replication (why distance and size matters); Profiles in the cloud; A hybrid solution -- persistent mixed with nonpersistent; Choosing the right solution ; Knowing your end users; A note about applications; The pros and cons of both persistent and nonpersistent desktops; Summary; Chapter 4: End Devices.

Thick clientsRepurposing thick clients; Thin clients; Changes to thick and thin client solutions; Teradici PCoIP-powered zero clients; Other clients; Unity Touch for iPad and Android-based tablets; Choosing the proper device; A one-cable zero client solution; Summary; Chapter 5: The PCoIP Protocol; Why lossless quality is important; PCoIP network fundamentals; Using PCoIP with Server Desktop Mode; Installing the Remote Desktop Services; Installing View Agent on the RDS Host; Creating an RDS farm; PCoIP connections; Multimedia redirection; The MMR perfect storm.

If you are a desktop architect, solution provider, end-user consultant, virtualization engineer, or anyone who wants to learn how to plan and design the implementation of a virtual desktop solution based on Horizon 6, then this book is for you. An understanding of VMware vSphere fundamentals coupled with experience in the installation or administration of a VMware environment would be a plus during reading.

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