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.

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Information

Publisher

Packt Publishing

Year

2014

ISBN

9781782170709

Edition

Topic

Informatique

Subtopic

Architecture des systèmes

VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization Solutions

Credits

Foreword

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more

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Preface

The VDI solution

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Components of VMware Horizon View 6

The core components of VMware Horizon View 6

vCenter Server

View Connection Server

Types of VMware View Connection Servers

View Manager

Precreated Active Directory machine accounts

vCenter and View Composer's advanced settings

The Phone Home option

Feature Pack

View Agent

Horizon Client

Improved end user experience

Real-Time Audio-Video

View Composer (an optional component)

Understanding View Composer

Using SQL Express installation for View Composer

Snapshots and linked clones

Templates

Full provisioning versus linked clones

Types of disks for vDesktops

OS disk

Secondary OS disk

User data disk

Temp data disk

Many options of disk types and redirection

Thin provisioning versus thick provisioning

Actions for linked clones – Reset, Refresh, Recompose, and Rebalance

Reset

Refresh

Recompose

Rebalance

View Composer Array Integration (VCAI)

VMware Horizon editions

Summary

2. Solution Methodology

Assessment

Questionnaire

Assessment worksheet for VMware View desktops

Metric collection

Processing the data

Discussion

Plan (define use cases)

Design

Storage

Isolation at the data store level

Why is isolation beneficial?

vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI)

View Storage Accelerator

Networking

Compute

VMware vSphere and View desktop pool infrastructure

Pod architecture

Application distribution infrastructure

What is a user persona?

User persona management

Connection infrastructure

End devices

People (the end user experience)

Pilot and validate

The VMware View Planner tool (formerly VMware RAWC)

Comparing storage platforms

Implementation

User migration

Hand-off and manage

Summary

3. Persistent or Nonpersistent vDesktops

Persistent desktops

Example scenario

Nonpersistent desktops

Example scenario

Notes and considerations for nonpersistent vDesktops

Multisite solutions

Why is a nonpersistent vDesktop best for a multisite?

Replication (why distance and size matters)

Profiles in the cloud

A hybrid solution – persistent mixed with nonpersistent

Choosing the right solution

Knowing your end users

A note about applications

The pros and cons of both persistent and nonpersistent desktops

Summary

4. End Devices

Thick clients

Repurposing thick clients

Thin clients

Changes to thick and thin client solutions

Teradici PCoIP-powered zero clients

Other clients

Unity Touch for iPad and Android-based tablets

Choosing the proper device

A one-cable zero client solution

Summary

5. The PCoIP Protocol

Why lossless quality is important

PCoIP network fundamentals

Using PCoIP with Server Desktop Mode

Installing the Remote Desktop Services

Installing View Agent on the RDS Host

Creating an RDS farm

PCoIP connections

Multimedia redirection

The MMR perfect storm

Windows 7 support for H.264-encoded Windows Media files

Teradici APEX offload card

The offload process

Defining the offload tiers

Design considerations

PCoIP Secure Gateway

Summary

6. Sizing the VDI

Network considerations

Sizing the network

Network connection characteristics

DHCP considerations

Virtual switch considerations

Standard versus distributed switches

Port binding

Static binding

Dynamic binding

Ephemeral binding

Port binding and VMware View Composer

Multi-VLAN

Compute considerations

Working with VMware vSphere maximums

Solution example – 25,000 seats of VMware View

Solution design – physical server requirements

Solution design – the pod concept

The VMware View pod design

The View pod

The View block

The Management block

Scaling desktop pool types

The architecture types for pods

Linked vCenter Servers

vCenter Servers

VMware Update Manager Servers

Solution design – pools

View Connection Servers

Solution design – the formulas

Summary

7. Building Redundancy into the VDI Solution

Physical infrastructure

VMware High Availability

Using VMware HA

Using HA with persistent vDesktops

Solutions with nonpersistent vDesktops

Using local storage

VMware Distributed Resource Scheduling

Anti-affinity

VMware vCenter Server

VMware Data Protection

vSphere High Availability

Database High Availability

Cold/Standby vCenter

View Connection Server

Installing the Replica Connection Server

Load balancing

Parent vDesktop and templates

Templates

Parent vDesktops with snapshots

User personas

Summary

8. Sizing the Storage

VMware View Composer

Snapshots

Snapshot and replica usage

Linked clone disk

VMware vSphere files

VMware View specific files

Tiered storage

Replica disk

Internal disk

Delta/differential disk

Disposable disk

Windows paging files

Temporary Internet files

Persistent disk

Storage overcommit

Storage overcommit level options

Storage protocols

Maximums and limits

Linked clones per da...