VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization Solutions: Plan, design, and secure your virtual desktop environments with VMware Horizon 6 View

362 Pages·2014·10.01 MB·English

by  Ryan Cartwright

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VMware Horizon 6 Desktop
Virtualization Solutions
Plan, design, and secure your virtual desktop
environments with VMware Horizon 6 View
Ryan Cartwright
Chuck Mills
Jason Langone
Andre Leibovici
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
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VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization Solutions
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Credits
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Ryan Cartwright Rashi Khivansara
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Reviewers
Tim Arenz
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Foreword
The new release of Horizon 6 delivers many new features such as virtualized
and remote desktops and applications through a single platform to end users.
The virtual desktop and application services, which include RDS hosted apps,
apps packaged with VMware ThinApp, SaaS apps, and even Citrix-based
virtualized apps, are now accessed from one unified workspace.
Chuck and Ryan are technical evangelists who used VMware products for many
years to provide solutions to several major companies. Chuck has spent the last few
years focusing on developing end user computing solutions, and Ryan is working to
provide solutions using vCenter Operations Manager, Site Recovery Manager, and
many other vSphere products.
This book will give readers the knowledge and confidence to install, configure, and
understand Horizon View 6. The book begins with the basic components of View
and explains how the components work together to build a VDI solution. There
will be a discussion regarding the importance of defining a solution methodology
to be used when planning and designing the View solution. Find out possible
combinations of end devices for your project and what options should be considered.
The display protocol, PCoIP, is covered, and the book gives you advice on how to
configure solutions to provide the best end user experience.
Any VDI solution success is a result of proper sizing, and all the items to consider,
such as network, compute and know the maximums for the View environment.
This book will review how to set up redundancy to provide high availability for
your VDI infrastructure. Storage is always an important component of View and
you need to consider what the decisions are. One of the compelling reasons for a
VDI solution is the security it brings. Learn what you can do to make sure the
solution provides the required security.
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Most VDI projects include moving users from their physical endpoint to new virtual
desktops. Review some of the options you have to accomplish this. After you have
invested all the time to create a robust and solid solution, you need to protect it. The
book will guide you through the components and how each one should be protected,
along with reviewing some of the backup methods. The book closes by showcasing
many of the new and exciting features in View 6, such as Cloud Pod Architecture,
details on VSAN, and new application hosting solutions.
I feel this book will be very useful for the novice as well as an experienced reader.
The authors have written this book based on real-life experiences in implementing
View solutions. They are aware of the many challenges and issues around designing
a successful VDI solution. The intent of this book is to give you knowledge along
with confidence to provide the best VDI solution using Horizon View.
Skip Gumble
Director of Sales, End User Computing
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About the Authors
Ryan Cartwright (@ryandcartwright) has been involved in virtualization
technologies since 2005. His focus has been on enterprise systems engineering
and architecture and operational support with many Fortune 500 customers. He is
currently a senior consultant for the cloud management team within the Professional
Services Organization for VMware. Prior to joining VMware, he was a senior
consultant and sales engineer in GANTECH, focusing on end user computing and
software-defined data center. Before his roles in the consulting field, Ryan worked
for Stanley Black & Decker in a variety of roles, focused on enterprise architecture
for global virtual infrastructure and integration through mergers and acquisition. He
has been working with VMware View since v3.5 and has designed and implemented
multiple VMware View environments for Fortune 500 companies for a variety of
use cases. He currently holds VCP5-DCV and VCP5-DT certifications as well as a
Nutanix Platform Professional (NPP) #55 certificate.
I'd like to mention my previous employers Stanley Black & Decker
and GANTECH for helping and providing me the foundation of
my virtualization knowledge through real-life experiences, and for
always challenging me to accept and tackle the next key project or
new role within their organizations.
I would like to thank Sam, my wife, who has supported my career
moves and geek speak over the years, my parents who encouraged
me to get into Information Technology when entering high school,
Packt Publishing for providing me the opportunity to write my
first book, and Chuck Mills for coauthoring the book with me and
providing mentorship over the past 2 years.
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Chuck Mills (@vchuckmills) has been involved in virtualization technologies for
more than 10 years and has focused on using these technologies to create efficient
and resilient solutions for data centers and desktops. He is currently the End User
Computing Practice Director for GANTECH, Inc. Prior to joining GANTECH, he
was a solutions architect for Allegis Group, and prior to that, he was the Director of
Information Technology for Maryland Legal Aid and ESP of Maryland, where both
companies achieved data centers that were 100 percent virtualized. He is one of the
leading experts on VMware Mirage, having worked with it prior to the VMware
acquisition. He has implemented Mirage in 5000 plus endpoint environments for
PoCs, pilots, and Windows XP migrations. Chuck has designed and led teams
on effective View solutions, including a successful worldwide PoC. He has given
numerous presentations regarding virtualization and their benefits, including
VMworld and VMware Partner Exchange. He is a former member of the VMware
Customer Council (VCC), coleader of the Maryland VMUG, and has been a vExpert
since 2011. He also maintains a blog dedicated to virtualization at www.vchuck.com.
I would like to thank my wonderful wife, Michelle, and my
children, Bradley, Brooke, Corbin, and Chuck III, for all the
support and encouragement to make this book possible.
I would also like to thank GANTECH for allowing me to live my
EUC passion and Packt Publishing for the opportunity to be a part
of this book. A special thanks to my VMware friends I have met over
the years and especially Ryan Cartwright who continues to impress
me with his ever growing VMware products knowledge.
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About the Reviewers
Tim Arenz (@timarenz) has been involved in application and desktop
virtualization solutions for over 8 years and has designed and implemented many
solutions based on AppSense, Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware technologies with up to
ten thousand users. He is currently working as a senior consultant in the Professional
Services Organization at VMware in Germany. In his role, he specializes in end user
computing, mainly focusing on ThinApp and Horizon Mirage, but also works with
customers and partners on Horizon View and Workspace projects.
On his personal blog at http://horizonflux.com, Tim shares news and best
practices about VMware's End User Computing product portfolio.
Bruce Bookman is a Silicon Valley software and hardware veteran who
has held roles from frontline technical support to Director of Software Quality
Assurance. Recently, he has been a VMware subject matter expert and Level 3
technical support escalation engineer for a solid state storage company, Fusion-io.
In late August 2014, he joined Oracle as a senior quality analyst for Oracle Cloud.
He is the author of technical articles covering virtualization on Developer.com,
and he has created and delivered technical training modules on virtualization
and other topics. He has received recognition for his customer advocacy and
dedication to customer success.
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