Book description
Plan, design, and secure your virtual desktop environments with VMware Horizon 6 View
In Detail
VMware Horizon 6 (with View) delivers virtualized desktops and applications through a single platform. It supports users, providing them with access to all of their Windows and online resources through one unified workspace, anywhere, using the device of their choice. The latest VDI release has brought with it various enhancements that will provide a better way to solve the common problems that occur while designing a VDI solution.
This book will guide you through how to produce a solid VDI solution with VMware Horizon 6 View, by combining best practices with actual installation challenges. The book is designed to be used during the design phase, which comes before the implementation phase. It covers all major Horizon 6 components and tips on how to use them to provide a solid VDI solution.
What You Will Learn
- Learn the strategies and techniques needed to migrate your user population from a traditional physical desktop environment to a successful virtual desktop solution
- Plan the approach to deliver, protect, and manage Windows desktops and applications to ensure that users can work anytime, anywhere, on any device
- Decide whether to use persistent or nonpersistent vDesktops and understand the impact of both on the VDI environment
- Understand the choices around end devices such as thick clients, thin clients, and zero clients
- Size the VDI environment correctly to avoid slow logons, poor PCoIP performance, authentication problems, and other random failures
- Analyze all of the potential points of failure within a VDI and provide redundancy for each component
- Design a backup solution and/or disaster recovery plan to ensure a quick recovery in times of failure
Table of contents
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VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization Solutions
- Table of Contents
- VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization Solutions
- Credits
- Foreword
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Components of VMware Horizon View 6
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2. Solution Methodology
- Assessment
- Plan (define use cases)
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Design
- Storage
- vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI)
- View Storage Accelerator
- Networking
- Compute
- VMware vSphere and View desktop pool infrastructure
- Application distribution infrastructure
- What is a user persona?
- User persona management
- Connection infrastructure
- End devices
- People (the end user experience)
- Pilot and validate
- Implementation
- User migration
- Hand-off and manage
- Summary
- 3. Persistent or Nonpersistent vDesktops
- 4. End Devices
- 5. The PCoIP Protocol
- 6. Sizing the VDI
- 7. Building Redundancy into the VDI Solution
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8. Sizing the Storage
- VMware View Composer
- VMware vSphere files
- VMware View specific files
- Tiered storage
- Storage overcommit
- Storage protocols
- Maximums and limits
- Storage I/O profile
- Read/write I/O ratio
- Storage tiering and I/O distribution
- Disk types
- VMware Virtual SAN
- Capacity-sizing exercises
- vSphere 5.0 video swap
- Summary
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9. Security
- The inherent security of VDI
- Firewalls, zones, and antivirus
- Virtual enclaves
- USB redirection and filtering
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Smart card authentication
- Configuring smart card authentication for VMware View Connection Servers
- Configuring smart card authentication for VMware View Security Servers
- RADIUS and two-factor authentication
- Configuring the U.S. Department of Defense Common Access Card authentication
- Certificate revocation configuration
- SSL protocols and ciphers
- Prohibiting the use of copy and paste functions
- View Connection Server tags
- Forensics
- Summary
- 10. Migrating User Personas
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11. Backing Up the VMware View Infrastructure
- VMware View Connection Server – ADAM Database backup
- Security Server considerations
- The View Composer database
- Remote Desktop Service host servers
- RDS Server host templates and virtual machines
- Virtual desktop templates and parent VMs
- Virtual desktops
- The ThinApp repository
- Persona Management
- VMware vCenter
- Restoring the VMware View environment
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
- Summary
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12. Exciting New Features in Horizon View 6
- Cloud Pod Architecture
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Overview for the setup of Cloud Pod Architecture
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Setting up Cloud Pod Architecture
- Step 1 – The first pod and Connection Server
- Step 2 – Joining the second pod to the first pod
- Step 3 – Validating the initial pod and Connection Server settings
- Step 4 – Creating the first site
- Step 5 – Creating the second site
- Step 6 – Validating both sites
- Step 7 – Adding the first pod to the first site
- Step 8 – Adding the second pod to the second site
- Step 9 – Validating pods in the sites
- Step 10 – Creating a global pool for the local desktop pools
- Step 11 – Repeating step 10 for additional global desktop entitlements
- Step 12 – Validating the global pools
- Step 13 – Associating Local Connection Server desktop pools with global pools
- Step 14 – Repeating step 13 for additional global desktop entitlements that were created in step 11
- Step 15 – Repeating step 13 for each secondary site created in step 5
- Step 16 – Repeating step 15 once for each secondary site created in step 5
- Step 17 – Verifying global pool membership using the first Connection Server
- Step 18 – Repeating step 17 for the additional global pool defined in step 11
- Step 19 – Entitling users/groups to the global pools
- Step 20 – Validating your Cloud Pod Architecture configurations
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Setting up Cloud Pod Architecture
- Application publishing
- A unified workspace
- Horizon View 6 integration with Virtual SAN
- Other new features
- Summary
- A. Additional Tools
- Index
Product information
- Title: VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization Solutions
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2014
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781782170709
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