- Administer the Horizon software, broker client connections, and integrate with other components of a Horizon infrastructure such as VMware vSphere and Active Directory.
- Create and manage linked clone-based virtual machines.
- VMware Product Interoperability Matrices and the Horizon documentation.
- Easy, OVA-based deployment, and it has the ability to broker connections to multiple Horizon Connection Servers.
- vSphere 6.0.0 and later.
- Maintains user persona settings across multiple platforms and OS versions, provides context-aware customization of the user session, and works with natively installed and virtual applications.
- Liquidware Labs Stratusphere UX, Login VSI, and Lakeside SysTrack.
- Linked clone desktops share the base virtual disk of a virtual desktop master image and are created by Horizon Composer. Instant clones share the quiesced virtual disk and memory of a virtual desktop master image, and are created by Horizon Connection Server using the vSphere VMFork feature.
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Chapter 1, VMware Horizon Infrastructure Overview
by Jason Ventresco
Implementing VMware Horizon 7.7 - Third Edition
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
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