Implementing VMware Horizon 7.7: Manage and deploy the end-user computing infrastructure for your organization, 3rd Edition

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	Implementing VMware Horizon 7.7 Third Edition
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VMware Horizon Infrastructure Overview
	VMware Horizon components
		Horizon Connection Server
		Horizon Security Server
		Horizon Unified Access Gateway
		Horizon Enrollment Server
		VMware vSphere
		VMware vCenter Server
		Horizon Composer
		Horizon Agent
		Horizon Client
		VMware App Volumes
		VMware User Environment Manager
		VMware ThinApp
	VMware Horizon licensing
	VMware Horizon core infrastructure requirements
		Microsoft infrastructure requirements
		OS requirements
		Database requirements
		vCenter Server requirements
		Horizon Agent-supported OS
	VMware Horizon design overview
		Measuring virtual desktop resource requirements
		The need for vSphere reserve capacity
		Providing sufficient Horizon Client bandwidth
		The importance of a VMware Horizon pilot
			Performance is the key
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Implementing Horizon Connection Server
	Overview of VMware Horizon Connection Server
	Horizon Connection Server requirements
		Hardware requirements
		Software requirements
		Limits of a Horizon Connection Server
		Load balancing Connection Servers
			Load-balancing appliances
		vCenter Server requirements
	Horizon installation prerequisites
		Infrastructure and other prerequisites
		Creating a vCenter role and granting permissions
		Horizon event database
			SQL database tutorials
	Deploying the first Horizon Connection Server
		Installing the first Horizon Connection Server
		Configuring the first Horizon Connection Server
	Configuring the Horizon Instant Clone Engine
		Configuring the Instant Clone Engine AD user account
		Updating the Instant Clone Engine Domain Administrator setting
	Deploying a Horizon Replica Connection Server
		Installing a Horizon Replica Connection Server
	Upgrading an existing Horizon Connection Server
		Upgrading prerequisites
			Backing up the existing Horizon configuration
		Horizon upgrade process
	Backing up a Horizon Connection Server
		Backing up the vCenter Server database
		Backing up the Horizon AD LDS database
	Horizon Connection Server recovery
		Restoring a single Horizon Connection Server
		Removing a Horizon Connection Server
		Restoring the vCenter database
		Restoring the Horizon Connection Server AD LDS database
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Implementing Horizon Composer
	Overview of VMware Horizon Composer
		Refreshing linked-clone desktops
		Recomposing linked-clone desktops
	Horizon Composer requirements
		Hardware requirements
	Limits of Horizon Composer
	Horizon Composer installation prerequisites
		Horizon Composer service account
			Horizon Composer vCenter permissions
				Creating a Horizon Composer vCenter role and granting permissions
			Horizon Composer AD permissions
			Delegating permissions for Horizon Composer in AD
		Horizon Composer database
			SQL Database tutorials
	Deploying Horizon Composer
		Installing Horizon Composer
	Configuring Horizon Composer
	Backing up Horizon Composer
		Backing up the Horizon Composer database
		Backing up the Horizon Composer SSL certificates
	Horizon Composer recovery
		Restoring the Horizon Composer database
		Restoring the Horizon Composer SSL certificates
			Restoring Horizon Composer with a new default SSL certificate
			Restoring Horizon Composer with a custom SSL certificate
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Implementing Horizon Security Server
	Horizon Security Server overview
	Horizon Security Server limits
	Horizon Security Server additional considerations
		High availability overview
	Security Server network requirements
	Installing and configuring Horizon Security Server
		Installation prerequisites
		Security Server pairing password
	Deploying a Horizon Security Server
		Enabling Blast/PCoIP Secure Gateway
		Installing a Horizon Security Server
	Updating the Horizon Security Server settings
		Horizon Security Server options
	Horizon Security Server backup
	Horizon Security Server recovery or upgrade
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Implementing Horizon Unified Access Gateway
	Horizon Unified Access Gateway overview
	Horizon Unified Access Gateway limits
	Horizon Unified Access Gateway additional considerations
		High availability overview
	Horizon Unified Access Gateway network requirements
	Preparing the infrastructure for a Horizon Unified Access Gateway
		Installation prerequisites
	Deploying a Horizon Unified Access Gateway
		Configuring the Connection Servers
		Deploying a Horizon Unified Access Gateway
	Troubleshooting a Horizon Unified Access Gateway deployment
	Updating the Horizon Unified Access Gateway configuration
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Implementing a Horizon Cloud Pod
	Horizon Cloud Pod overview
		Sharing key data in the Horizon Cloud Pod Global Data Layer
		Sending messages between Horizon pods
		Cloud Pod port requirements
		Cloud Pod topology limits
	Configuring a Horizon Cloud Pod
		Configuring Horizon sites
		Associating users with Horizon sites
	Creating Cloud Pod Global Entitlements
		Creating and configuring a Global Entitlement for a Horizon desktop pool
		Creating and configuring a Global Entitlement for a Horizon application pool
	Removing a Horizon pod from a Cloud Pod
	Updating the settings of a Global Entitlement
		Editing the general settings of a Global Entitlement
	Determining the effective home site of a user or security group
	Monitoring Global Entitlement Horizon client sessions
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Creating Horizon Desktop Pools
	Horizon desktop pool overview
	Desktop pool common terms
	Horizon desktop pool options
		Horizon Composer-linked clones
		Instant-clone desktops
		Full-clone desktops
		Linux desktops
	QuickPrep versus Sysprep
	Advantages of Linked or Instant Clone desktops
	Considerations for Linked and Instant Clone desktops
	Creating a Horizon desktop pool
		Creating a pool using Horizon Composer-linked clones
		Creating a pool using Horizon Instant Clones
		Creating a pool using full clones
	Monitoring the desktop creation process
		Horizon Administrator console
		The vSphere Web client task window
	Common provisioning problems
	Managing Horizon Desktop pool entitlements
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Implementing the Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Application and Desktop Pools
	Configuring a Microsoft RDSH server for use with Horizon
		Microsoft RDS licensing
		Microsoft RDSH Server recommended hardware configuration
		Importing the Horizon RDS AD group policy templates
		Installing the Horizon Agent on the Microsoft RDS host
		vSphere customization specification for the Microsoft RDS servers
		Additional resources related to using Microsoft RDS servers
	Creating a Microsoft RDS farm in Horizon
	Creating a Horizon application pool
	Creating an RDS desktop pool
	Using the Horizon Client to access application pools
	Monitoring the status of Horizon application pool clients and RDS servers
	Modifying or deleting a Horizon application pool
	Managing a Horizon RDS farm or server
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Performing Horizon Pool Maintenance
	An overview of instant and linked clone maintenance
		Instant-clone parent image update
		Linked clone desktop refresh
		Linked clone desktop recompose
		Linked clone desktop rebalance
	Managing Horizon maintenance tasks
	Global settings for Horizon maintenance
		Logoff warning and timeout
		Concurrent maintenance operations
		Storage overcommit
			Updating datastore storage overcommit settings
	Performing linked clone desktop maintenance
		Refreshing linked clone desktops
		Refreshing individual desktops
		Recomposing linked clone desktops
		Recomposing individual desktops
		Rebalancing linked clone desktops
		Rebalancing individual desktops
	Performing instant clone desktop maintenance
		Updating the instant clone desktop parent image
		Recovering an individual instant clone desktop
	Managing Horizon Composer persistent disks
		Detaching persistent disks
		Recreating a desktop using a persistent disk
		Attaching a detached persistent disk to an existing desktop
		Importing a persistent disk
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Creating a Master Virtual Desktop Image
	The importance of desktop optimization
	Optimization results – Horizon desktop IOPS
	Optimization results – CPU utilization
	Customizing the Windows desktop OS cluster size
		Customizing the Windows cluster size during the installation process
	Permanently removing Windows Store applications
	Windows OS pre-deployment tasks
		Installing VMware Tools
	Removing an unwanted application – native update features
		Disabling the Adobe Acrobat Reader DC update feature
		Disabling the Java updater utility
	Windows OS optimizations
		Disabling Windows Error Reporting
		Disabling automatic updates
		Removing unnecessary Windows components
		Pre-compiling Microsoft .NET Framework assemblies
		Disabling Windows hibernation
		Disabling Windows System Restore
		Sizing virtual machine RAM properly
		Setting the Windows page file to a fixed size
		Disabling paging the executive
		Disabling Content Indexing of the desktop drive
		Disabling Content Indexing for the remaining file locations
		Disabling unnecessary services
			SuperFetch
		Removing unnecessary scheduled tasks
		Changing the Group Policy refresh interval
		Disabling the Windows boot animation
		Optimizing the Windows profile
			Adjusting for best performance
			Turning off system sounds
			Disabling the Windows background and screen saver
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Implementing App Volumes
	App Volumes overview
	App Volumes prerequisites
		vCenter permissions
	Installing App Volumes Manager server
	Configuring App Volumes Manager
	Deploying additional App Volumes Manager servers
	Installing the App Volumes Agent
		Configuring native load balancing for the App Volumes Agent software
	Creating an AppStack
		Updating an AppStack
	Assigning AppStacks
	Deleting AppStacks assignments
	Enabling Writable Volumes
	Deleting Writable Volumes
	App Volumes backup and recovery
		What to back up
		Recovery process
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Implementing User Environment Manager
	UEM overview
	UEM pre-installation tasks
		Configuration share
		Persona share
		Windows user folder redirection share
		Group policy files
	Installing the UEM Agent
	Configuring UEM
		Installing the UEM management console
		Easy Start configuration
		Easy Start defaults
		UEM group policy settings
			UEM user policies
			UEM computer policies
			Windows folder redirection
	Advanced UEM configuration examples
		Personalization
			Application profile Import/Export feature
		User Environment
			Shortcut management feature
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Implementing the Just-in-Time Management Platform (JMP)
	An Overview of the Horizon Just-in-Time Management Platform
	Just-in-Time Management Server requirements
		Hardware requirements
		Software requirements
		General requirements
		Database requirements
		VMware infrastructure requirements
	Deploying the JMP Server
		Installing the JMP Server software
		Configuring the JMP settings
	Managing JMP Assignments
		Creating a JMP Assignment
		Deleting, duplicating, or editing a JMP Assignment
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Using Horizon PowerCLI
	Enabling remote management in Windows
		Enabling WinRM
	Establishing a remote Horizon PowerCLI session
	Viewing all the PowerCLI commands and their options
		Listing all Horizon PowerCLI commands
		Displaying the options for a single PowerCLI command
		Sample data for Horizon PowerCLI commands
		Horizon PowerCLI commands not covered in this chapter
	Configuring the Horizon infrastructure
		Adding a vCenter server to Horizon
		Updating the settings of the vCenter server that is linked to Horizon
		Removing a vCenter server from Horizon
		Updating the Horizon connection broker settings
		Updating the Horizon global settings
		Configuring the Horizon license
	Administering Horizon desktop pools
		Creating a dedicated assignment persistent linked clone pool
		Creating a floating assignment (non-persistent) linked clone pool
		Creating an automatically provisioned full clone desktop pool
		Creating a manually provisioned desktop pool
		Updating the configuration of a Horizon desktop pool
		Updating a linked clone pool
		Updating an automatically provisioned full clone pool
		Updating a manually provisioned pool
		Refreshing a linked clone desktop or pool
		Recomposing a linked clone desktop pool
		Rebalancing a linked clone desktop pool
		Resetting a Horizon desktop
	Managing Horizon client entitlements and sessions
		Adding desktop pool entitlements
		Removing desktop pool entitlements
		Entitling or unentitling an individual desktop
		Disconnecting the Horizon client session
		Logging off the Horizon client session
	Retrieving information about the Horizon infrastructure
		Retrieving Horizon composer server information
		Retrieving a list of the Horizon desktop pools
		Retrieving the global Horizon configuration data
		Retrieving the Horizon connection broker information
		Retrieving a list of virtual machines managed by Horizon
		Get-DesktopVM - ComposerTask refresh
		Retrieving the AD user or group information
		Retrieving information about user persistent data disks
		Retrieving the Horizon event reports and their descriptions
		Retrieving the Horizon infrastructure health monitors and their status
		Retrieving information about remote Horizon sessions
		Retrieving a list of the vCenter servers linked to the Horizon environment
		Retrieving the Horizon license information
		Reviewing the desktop pool entitlement
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Assessments
	Chapter 1, VMware Horizon Infrastructure Overview
	Chapter 2, Implementing Horizon Connection Server
	Chapter 3, Implementing Horizon Composer
	Chapter 4, Implementing Horizon Security Server
	Chapter 5, Implementing Horizon Unified Access Gateway
	Chapter 6, Implementing a Horizon Cloud Pod
	Chapter 7, Creating Horizon Desktop Pools
	Chapter 8, Implementing Microsoft Remote Desktop Services Application and Desktop Pools
	Chapter 9, Performing Horizon Pool Maintenance
	Chapter 10, Creating a Master Virtual Desktop Image
	Chapter 11, Implementing App Volumes
	Chapter 12, Implementing User Environment Manager
	Chapter 13, Implementing the Just-in-Time Management Platform (JMP)
	Chapter 14, Using Horizon PowerCLI
	Chapter 15, Implementing Horizon Group Policies
	Chapter 16, Managing Horizon SSL Certificates
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