Mastering VMware Horizon 6

What this book covers
Chapter 1, Introduction to VMware Horizon 6, covers an introduction to what VDI is, and how it
compares to other VDI type technologies. We will then cover a brief history of the VMware VDI
story, followed by an overview of the latest solution.
Chapter 2, An Overview of Horizon View Architecture and its Components, will introduce you to the
architectural components that make up the core VMware Horizon solution, concentrating on the
virtual desktop elements of Horizon View Standard and the functionality of brokering virtual desktop
machines.
Chapter 3, Design and Deployment Considerations, will introduce you to design and deployment
techniques to take into consideration when undertaking your VMware Horizon project. We will
discuss techniques to prove the technology and understanding how it will work inside your business,
methods to assess your user's existing workload and how to use this information to help design your
VMware Horizon Solution.
Chapter 4, Installing and Configuring Horizon View, will cover the installation process of the core
Horizon View components, such as the Connection Server, Security Server, and replica server.
Following the installation, we will start to configure the base elements of a Horizon View installation.
Chapter 5, Securing Horizon View with SSL Certificates, covers the aspect of VMware Horizon View,
and in particular, how we deliver secure communication to the end user client, and also the different
infrastructure components within the data center. We will start with an overview of what an SSL
certificate is, and then how to create and issue a certificate before configuring Horizon View to use it.
Chapter 6, Building and Optimizing the Desktop Operating System, covers how to create and
configure the virtual desktop machines after building the Horizon View infrastructure and its
components, and then build the desktop operating system on them, configuring it so that it is running
at its optimum performance level to run in a virtual environment.
Chapter 7, Managing and Configuring Desktop Pools, covers how Horizon View uses the concept of
desktop pools to create a collection of virtual desktop machines for specific use cases, which in turn
are allocated to the end users. In this chapter, we will look at the process to configure the different
types of desktop pools.
Chapter 8, Fine-tuning the End User Experience, covers one of the key tasks in building the best user
experience possible, which is to start fine-tuning the performance and experience for the end user's
session with their virtual desktop machine. In this chapter, we will look at the tuning techniques and
the pre-built Group Policy objects that can be applied to create that experience.
Chapter 9, Managing User Profiles with View Persona Management, introduces you to Horizon View
Persona Management, what it is, and why you would want to deploy it. We will then examine how it is
driven by Standard Active Directory Group Policy finishing with an in depth look at the policies
available.
Chapter 10, Delivering Remote Applications with Horizon Advanced, dives deeper into the key feature
of Horizon Advanced Edition, and looks at how Horizon View publishes an application directly into
the Horizon View Client, without the need of having to launch a full virtual desktop machine. We will
walk through the installation and configuration process to get our first set of Horizon View published
applications available to the end users.
Chapter 11, Delivering Session-based Desktops with Horizon View, covers the other half of View's
remoting capabilities and looks at how Horizon View can deliver session-based desktops from a
Microsoft RDSH infrastructure.
Chapter 12, View Client Options, covers how the View Client is used to receive and display the virtual
desktops and applications on the end user's device. In this chapter, we will look at the options for the
View Client, both hardware and software, and discuss the various options and why you would choose
one method over another.
Chapter 13, Upgrading to Horizon View 6, covers all the things you need to consider before
upgrading and will then take you through the upgrade process. This chapter is designed for those that
are currently running a previous version of Horizon View and are looking to upgrade to the latest
version.
Chapter 14, Horizon 6 Advanced Edition, covers some of the additional features that are part of the
Horizon Advanced Edition, namely VMware Mirage and VMware Workspace Portal.
Chapter 15, Introduction to App Volumes, will show you how to get up and running to the point of
delivering your first set of applications. App Volume is one of the newest features of Horizon
Enterprise Edition following the VMware acquisition of Cloud Volumes. App Volumes provides realtime
application delivery.
Chapter 16, Introduction to VSAN for VDI, covers an overview of the VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN)
technology, how it is architected, and how you create a VSAN-enabled cluster ready to use for your
VDI users.
Chapter 17, Troubleshooting, covers some troubleshooting techniques and methods for use within
Horizon View rather than going through a list of problems and issues.

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