VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization Solutions - Couverture souple

Chuck Mills; Ryan Cartwright

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782170707 ISBN 13 : 9781782170709

Editeur : Packt Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

This book is an example-based guide that will help you in delivering a successful virtual desktop solution. You will understand not only the settings and configurations needed to build a virtual desktop solution, but also learn the thought process used to make those decisions.
If you are a Desktop Architect, Solution Provider, End-User Consultant, Virtualization Engineer, or anyone who wants to learn how to plan and design the implementation of a virtual desktop solution based on Horizon 6, then this book is for you. An understanding of VMware vSphere fundamentals coupled with experience in installation or administration of a VMware environment would be a plus during reading.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Plan, design, and secure your virtual desktop environments with VMware Horizon 6 View

About This Book

• Design a successful solution to deliver Windows desktops and applications as a service
• Provide redundancy for components and design a backup solution and disaster recovery plan to protect your investment and to keep your users productive
• A learn-by-example-based approach that focuses on key concepts to provide the foundation to solve real-world problems

Who This Book Is For

If you are a desktop architect, solution provider, end-user consultant, virtualization engineer, or anyone who wants to learn how to plan and design the implementation of a virtual desktop solution based on Horizon 6, then this book is for you. An understanding of VMware vSphere fundamentals coupled with experience in the installation or administration of a VMware environment would be a plus during reading.

What You Will Learn

• Learn the strategies and techniques needed to migrate your user population from a traditional physical desktop environment to a successful virtual desktop solution
• Plan the approach to deliver, protect, and manage Windows desktops and applications to ensure that users can work anytime, anywhere, on any device
• Decide whether to use persistent or nonpersistent vDesktops and understand the impact of both on the VDI environment
• Understand the choices around end devices such as thick clients, thin clients, and zero clients
• Size the VDI environment correctly to avoid slow logons, poor PCoIP performance, authentication problems, and other random failures
• Analyze all of the potential points of failure within a VDI and provide redundancy for each component
• Design a backup solution and/or disaster recovery plan to ensure a quick recovery in times of failure

In Detail

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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Ryan Cartwright

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Packt Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782170707
• ISBN 13: 9781782170709
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 378
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible