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VMware Horizon 7 delivers, protects, and manages your applications and virtual desktops and ensures the end user can access them from anywhere and at any time. It is easy to have a fundamental knowledge of VMware Horizon 7 but it is way more challenging and difficult to implement and fine-tune it according to your business needs. Our video overcomes this challenge and ensures you gain the advanced and practical knowledge required to manage and implement Horizon 7 efficiently for your organization.
VMware Horizon 7 delivers, protects, and manages your applications and virtual desktops and ensures the end user can access them from anywhere and at any time. It is easy to have a fundamental knowledge of VMware Horizon 7 but it is way more challenging and difficult to implement and fine-tune it according to your business needs. Our video overcomes this challenge and ensures you gain the advanced and practical knowledge required to manage and implement Horizon 7 efficiently for your organization.
The video starts by demonstrating advanced installation and configuration, which will help you to customize Horizon 7 according to your business requirements. Then you'll delve into the latest features of Horizon 7 such as just-in-time delivery with instant clone; modernized life cycle management, which ensures faster application delivery; better user experience; smart policies, in order to improve security; and many more. This advanced-level video will teach you to deliver virtual desktops and applications through a single platform, multiple deployment scenarios, Horizon client and agent security, integration with third-party software, best practices, and troubleshooting techniques.
About the Author
Peter Von Oven is an experienced technical consultant and has spent the past 20 years of his IT career working with customers and partners in designing technology solutions aimed at delivering true business value. During his career, Peter has been involved in numerous large-scale enterprise projects and deployments and has presented at key IT events such as VMworld He has also worked in senior presales roles and senior presales management roles for IT giants such as Fujitsu, HP, Citrix, and VMware and was awarded VMware vExpert for 2015 and 2016. Over the past 10 years and more, Peter has focused his skills and experience by specializing in the desktop and application virtualization market and today works for market-leading desktop transformation specialists, Liquidware Labs. Peter got his first taste for writing when assisting with some of the chapters in the book Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View, which then led to four other Packt titles: VMware Horizon Mirage Essentials; VMware Horizon Workspace Essentials, co-written with Peter Bjork and Joel Lindberg; and VMware Horizon View Essentials and Mastering Horizon View, co-written with Barry Coombs.
To deploy a successful Vmware Horizon 7 environment there are a number of infrastructure components that need to be in place first. The example lab environment will give you the infrastructure foundation for this course to help build you own environment.
The VMware Horizon View infrastructure components are hosted on a VMware vSphere platform (ESXi servers). Two set of infrastructure are required:; one to the View management components, and another to host the actual desktops.
The VMware Horizon View infrastructure is installed on Microsoft Windows Servers, along with other requirements and dependencies such as MS SQL Server.
The VMware Horizon View infrastructure relies on Microsoft Active directory to apply policies to the virtual desktop machines to deliver the end user experience.
The VMware Horizon View solution comprises of a number of different applications that need to be downloaded from the VMware web site.
VMware VDI has been around a while and the number of features has grown with each new edition, with each adding new features and functionality to help reduce cost and improve end user experience.
The VMware Horizon 7 architecture is made up from a number of different components that work together to provide the platform for delivering virtual desktops, as well as delivering the optimum end user experience.
There are a number of ways in which a view-based non-persistent or persistent virtual desktop can be built.
How do you deliver the virtual desktop machine from the datacenter to the end user's device, and also ensure they get an experience that is better than or equal to a physical desktop.
Where do you start when considering a VDI project? There are a number of things to consider in building a business case, proving the technology, and finally deploying a production ready environment.
When you start your project, the first thing you should consider is to take a snapshot of what your desktop environment looks like today. Profile the users, applications, and the resources in use today.
Before you deploy a solution, you need to test its suitability for your environment and that it meets your project definition, business case, and user requirements.
The final phase of the project is to take all the findings along with your business and use cases, and start to design a production ready environment.
The first component to install is the Horizon View Composer that is the engine behind driving Linked Clone virtual desktop machines.
The key component to Horizon View environment is the Horizon View Connection Server. It's where users connect to in order to access their virtual desktop machines.
Once the Horizon View Connection Server has been installed there are a number of additional configuration tasks that need to be completed.
To add an element of high availability as well as scalability to the Horizon View environment you need to install additional Connection Servers. These are called Replica Servers.
To allow end users to connect to their virtual desktop machines from the Internet you need to deploy an externally facing Connection Server. This is called the Security Server.
The Cloud Pod Architecture allows you to expand your View deployment to up to 50, 000 users, as well as providing DR across multiple sites.
The configuration process allows you to create a pod federation of up to five Horizon View pods as well as configuring different user entitlements based on the end users location.
SSL Certificates are a requirement in Horizon View to secure the communication between the different View components such as the Connection Server, Replica Server, and the clients.
As this Windows desktop is going to be running as a VDI hosted virtual desktop, it needs to be built from the ground up as a VDI desktop, using the correct hardware configuration. We need to make this our gold image template from which all virtual desktops are created from.
Once you have created a Windows 7 virtual desktop machine, it needs to be optimized so that it runs optimally as a VDI desktop.
Once you have built and optimized a Windows 7 image, you can prepare it for delivery. This is dependent on the way the virtual desktops are going to be built.
As this Windows desktop is going to running as a VDI hosted virtual desktop, it needs to be built from the ground up as a VDI desktop, using the correct hardware configuration. We need to make this our gold image template from which all virtual desktops are created from.
Once you have created a Windows 10 virtual desktop machine, it needs to be optimized so that it runs optimally as a VDI desktop.
Once you have built and optimized a Windows 10 image, you can prepare it for delivery. This is dependent on the way the virtual desktops are going to be built.
Horizon View uses the concept of a desktop pool to create a group of similarly configured virtual desktop machines.
The first option we will discuss is how to build a desktop pool consisting of virtual desktop machines created using Instant Clones.
How to entitle end users to access the virtual desktops in the desktop pool.
With the Instant Clone desktop pool created, the virtual desktops are now created as per that pool configuration.
The next option we will discuss is how to build a desktop pool consisting of virtual desktop machines created using Linked Clones.
How to entitle end users to access the virtual desktops in the Linked Clone desktop pool.
With the Linked Clone desktop pool created, the virtual desktops are now created as per that pool configuration.
The next option we will discuss is how to build a desktop pool consisting of virtual desktop machines created using Full Clones.
How to entitle end users to be able to access the virtual desktops in the Full Clone desktop pool.
The next option we will discuss is how to build a desktop pool consisting of virtual desktop machines created using Manual Pool.
How to entitle end users to access the virtual desktops in the Manual desktop pool.
The display protocol is a key component in any VDI environment, and it is responsible for delivering the desktop experience to the end users device.
There are three main delivery/display protocols available in Horizon View: PCoIP, Blast Extreme, and RDP.
There are a number of different options available for an end user to connect to their virtual desktop. There are software clients available for a number of platforms as well as hardware options.
Now that users are connecting to their virtual desktop machines, the virtual desktop machines need to be tuned to deliver the optimal end user experience.
Now that users are using their virtual desktop machines, the end user experience needs to be continually monitored in order to ensure users receive the optimal performance possible.
The core component of the hosted desktop session is the RDSH server that hosts the actual sessions. The Horizon View Connection Server then acts as the broker between end user and the desktop session.
The key to configuring the hosted desktop sessions in Horizon View is setting up and configuring the RDSH server role.
For the Horizon View Connection Server to broker the desktop sessions, you need to configure server farms that will deliver the desktop sessions to the end users.
To ensure performance levels and that the desktop sessions are spread evenly across the servers within the farms, you need to configure load balancing.
The core component of the hosted application session is the RDSH server running RemoteApp, which hosts the actual sessions. The Horizon View Connection Server then acts as the broker between the end user and desktop session.
The key to configuring the hosted apps sessions in Horizon View is setting up and configuring the RDSH server role and RemoteApp.
For the Horizon View Connection Server to broker the application sessions, you need to configure server farms that will deliver the desktop sessions to the end users as well as application pools.
To ensure performance levels and that the application sessions are spread evenly across the servers within the farms, you need to configure load balancing.
Application layering is a relatively new technology that allows you to attach applications to virtual desktops without having to install them as part of the operating system build.
Liquidware Labs are the market leader in application layering solutions and offers more advanced features than those delivered by the main vendors.
Once the layers have been created, you then need a mechanism in which to deliver them to the end users' virtual desktop machines.
When you move to a non-persistent virtual desktop environment where nobody “owns” their own desktop, you need to consider how you are going to personalize the desktop and deliver the user centric elements of the desktop, such as their settings and personal data.
VMware offers an entry level profile management solution known as View Persona Management.
In most deployments, basic folder redirection is not enough, you will need to deploy a more advanced solution that can manage the entire user environment.
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