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Implementing VMware Horizon 7.7 - Third Edition
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Implementing VMware Horizon 7.7 - Third Edition

by Jason Ventresco
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
11h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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Overview of VMware Horizon Composer

Horizon Composer is used to provision linked-clone virtual desktops, which are a type of virtual machine that shares a common virtual desktop master image, sometimes referred to as a golden image. Horizon and vSphere support up to 4,000 desktops for each single replica of the virtual desktop master image, which enables significant storage savings over traditional full-clone virtual desktops.

The concept behind a linked-clone desktop is demonstrated in the following diagram, which shows the relationship between the master Replica Disk Read Only and the Linked-Clone Disk:

This diagram is to illustrate the ...
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