What this book covers

Chapter 1, VMware Horizon Infrastructure Overview, provides a broad overview of VMware Horizon and discusses topics that will influence the design, implementation, and assessment of a VMware Horizon infrastructure.

Chapter 2, Implementing Horizon Connection Server, covers the infrastructure requirements, sizing, limits, high availability, deployment, configuration, backup, and recovery of Horizon Connection Server.

Chapter 3, Implementing Horizon Composer, covers the infrastructure requirements, deployment, configuration, backup, and recovery of Horizon Composer. The capabilities of Horizon Composer and benefits of using linked clone desktops are also discussed.

Chapter 4, Implementing Horizon Security Server, covers the infrastructure requirements, limits, high availability designs, deployment, configuration, backup, and recovery of Horizon Security Server.

Chapter 5, Implementing VMware Horizon Access Point, covers the infrastructure requirements, limits, high availability designs, deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting of Horizon Access Point.

Chapter 6, Implementing a Horizon Cloud Pod, covers how to deploy, configure, and administer a Horizon Cloud Pod, which enables the creation of global client entitlements to resources in multisite, multi-pod Horizon environments.

Chapter 7, Using VMware Virtual SAN with Horizon, provides an overview of how to architect VMware Virtual SAN for a Horizon infrastructure, walks through the deployment process, and identifies what must be done when creating Horizon pools in order to use Virtual SAN.

Chapter 8, Implementing VMware User Environment Manager, covers the implementation and management of the VMware User Environment Manager profile management platform and provides an overview of the capabilities of some of the product's advanced features.

Chapter 9, Implementing VMware App Volumes, covers the infrastructure prerequisites, deployment, configuration, and administration of VMware App Volumes. Topics include the deployment and configuration of the App Volumes Manager appliance, the installation and configuration of the App Volumes Agent and AppCapture program, the App Volumes AppStack creation, update, and assignment process, the Writable Volume assignment and creation process, and App Volumes backup and recovery procedures.

Chapter 10, Creating Horizon Desktop Pools, covers how to configure Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Services for use with Horizon, how to configure and manage a Horizon Application Pool, and how to manage and monitor the status of Windows Remote Desktop Services hosts and Horizon clients who are streaming applications.

Chapter 11, Implementing Horizon Application Pools, covers how to configure Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Services for use with Horizon, how to deploy and manage Remote Desktop Services farms and Horizon Application Pools, and how to manage and monitor the status of Windows Remote Desktop Services hosts and Horizon clients who are streaming applications.

Chapter 12, Performing Horizon Desktop Pool Maintenance, covers how to perform maintenance on Horizon pools that contain linked clone or instant clone desktops. Topics include an overview of the different maintenance operations including linked clone refresh, recompose, and rebalance, instant clone push image and recovery, and how to manage the optional linked clone persistent disks.

Chapter 13, Creating a Master Horizon Desktop Image, covers the techniques that should be used when creating a master Horizon desktop image. Topics covered include the importance of optimizing the desktop operating system; sample optimization results; examples of how to disable native application update features; and how to optimize the Windows filesystem, Windows Operating System, and Windows user profiles.

Chapter 14, Managing Horizon SSL Certificates, covers how to replace the default SSL certificates on each of the Horizon components including Connection Server, Composer, Security Server, and Access Point, as well as the App Volumes appliances. This chapter also discusses how to create the SSL certificate requests and obtain new certificates using a Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services server.

Chapter 15, Using Horizon PowerCLI, covers the different PowerCLI commands that you can use to configure and administer nearly all aspects of the Horizon platform, and provides examples of how those commands are used.