Mastering VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition

Summary

In this chapter, we have covered some of the essential tasks in designing and building out our Horizon View infrastructure.

We started at a high level, discussing the approach to a VDI project and the different phases to work through in order to plan and test an environment. The most important of these phases is the assessment phase.

Once we worked through these, we looked at the pod and block reference architecture, before examining the sizing of the key Horizon View components, such as the View Connection Server, View Security Server, and View Composer.

Following on from the management architecture, we looked at some of the considerations for sizing and configuring the virtual desktop machines and the user assignments, before finally putting ...