Publisher's Synopsis
VMware® Horizon Suite
The authoritative guide to delivering end-user services with VMwarE View and VMware Horizon Suite
Today, IT professionals must manage stateless, mobile, streamed workspaces delivered across devices ranging from traditional PCs to tablets and smartphones. Using VMware View and VMware Horizon Suite, they can do so-providing flexible end-user services that support any business requirement cost effectively.
Now there's a complete guide to planning, configuring, implementing, and integrating VMware Horizon Suite technologies and using them to deliver high-value end-user services in enterprise, managed, and cloud provider environments.
This book's deep up-to-date technical content addresses considerations ranging from architecture, deployment, and operations to user experience and support. It offers detailed guidance on integration with VMware View and key third-party technologies. Throughout, it fully reflects the newest VMware View releases, including VMware Horizon Mirage.
Relevant, clear, and usable, VMware Horizon Suite contains step-by-step configuration examples, sample scenarios helping you choose the right technologies for your users' needs, and a complete end-user computing design checklist.
Coverage includes
Understanding the new end-user service model and how VMware View and VMware Horizon address it
Mastering VMware View 6 and VMware Workspace 1.8 architectures
Leveraging proven installation and implementation techniques
Efficiently operating Connection, Security, and Transfer servers
Managing agents, clients, portals, composers, and personas
Integrating VMware View and Workspace
Implementing operational best practices, such as desktop pools, user data management, and SaaS
Using VMware Mirage to manage desktop images more intelligently and provide a wider spectrum of end-user services
Delivering multimedia within a View desktop environment
Integrating Microsoft Lync with VMware View
Monitoring VMware View and optimizing its performance
