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Tune InOptimizing your Windows Image
If you only do one thing with your Horizon infrastructure, do this...
Applies to: VMware Horizon 7; VMware Horizon Cloud Service
Considerations you must take into account when creating a Windows system image are much different if you plan to deploy virtual desktops rather than physical desktops:
- Physical desktops – Resource usage on a physical machine impacts only the user who is using that machine. The operating system on a physical machine determines whether or not resources are available. One-time actions impact the user only the first time they are performed because the machine is never refreshed. For example, a user typically gets a new user profile the first time they log on, and they continue to use that same profile with all subsequent logons.
- Virtual desktops – In contrast, in a virtual environment, the guest operating system behaves as if it has exclusive access to the CPU cores, but in reality the cores are shared between 2 to 8 virtual machines. When using nonpersistent VMs or user profiles, the actions that are intended to run only once could run every time a user logs on.
Creating an Optimized Windows Image for a VMware Horizon Virtual Desktop
January 30, 2020
This guide provides step-by-step instructions to configure a Windows image that performs optimally in a virtual environment, where CPU cores are shared among many VMs.
Horizon 7 Popular Assets
These assets are our most popular for on-premise Horizon 7. Set the above filter button to Horizon 7 for more assets. Use the sort and display buttons to fine-tune your results.
Business Continuity with VMware Horizon
May 29, 2020
Whether you are new to Horizon 7 or Horizon Cloud, or you are an experienced user, this guide covers ways to meet the challenges of today’s events, as well as to be better prepared for business continuity and disaster recovery in the future. It starts by reflecting on the current state of your deployment, conducts a health check to solidify your existing enterprise, explores a variety of expansion options for new environments and existing ones, covers deployment considerations and best practices, and ends with how to enhance and evolve your deployment to add security, improve user experience, support remote workers, drive digital transformation, and achieve your business continuity goals.
Using Horizon 7 to Access Physical Windows Machines
April 16, 2020
VMware Horizon 7 offers the option to broker access to physical machines. This provides an excellent and familiar experience for employees to allow them to work from home by connecting to their normal office-based machine. Brokering to physical machines can be implemented either with an existing Horizon 7 environment or with a new one. With minimal components required, this solution can be implemented quickly.
VMware Operating System Optimization Tool Guide
June 03, 2020
This guide describes how to optimize virtual and physical desktops and servers with the VMware Operating System Optimization Tool (OSOT) for VMware Horizon 7 and VMware Horizon Cloud.
Network Ports in VMware Horizon 7
May 28, 2020
This document lists port requirements for connectivity between the various components and servers in a VMware Horizon® 7 deployment. This document applies to all versions of Horizon 7 from 7.0 onwards.
Understand and Troubleshoot Horizon Connections
April 30, 2020
Before you start troubleshooting Horizon and Blast connections, read this guide to help you understand how a VMware Horizon Client connects to a resource. With this insight, you can determine the best architecture, understand the traffic flow and network ports, and troubleshoot more effectively.
VMware Workspace ONE and VMware Horizon Reference Architecture
July 01, 2020
This reference architecture provides a framework and guidance for architecting an integrated digital workspace using VMware Workspace ONE and VMware Horizon. Design guidance is given for each product—with a corresponding component design chapter devoted to each product—followed by chapters that provide best practices for integrating the components into a complete platform.
Horizon Cloud Service Assets
These assets are our most popular for Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure. Set the above filter button to Horizon Cloud Service for more assets. Use the sort and display buttons to fine-tune your results.
Getting Started with Horizon Cloud Service
September 25, 2019
Connecting your existing Horizon 7 pod to the Horizon Service is straightforward if you follow the steps outlined in this blog.
Integrating FSLogix Profile Containers with VMware Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure
January 17, 2020
This tutorial takes you through the steps to integrate Microsoft FSLogix with VMware Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure to build a nonpersistent desktop service while providing a persistent user experience.
VMware Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure Network Ports Diagrams
April 20, 2020
You can find diagrams showing port and protocol requirements for connectivity between components and servers in your deployment of Horizon Cloud Service with Microsoft Azure. Use this guide alongside the port and protocol list in Ports and Protocols Requirements for a Horizon Cloud Pod at the September 2019 Release's Manifest Level, to identify how your end users will connect, and make sure those ports are open for traffic.
Other Horizon Content
Below we list other Horizon assets. Use the above sort, filter and display buttons to tune this list to your needs. Try playing with the Subject filter to target your area of interest such as Privilege Elevation, Outlook OST or Power CLI.
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VMware Horizon Cloud: Universal Broker and Multi-Cloud Assignments - Feature Walk-through
July 09, 2020
This video covers two features of the Horizon Cloud Service Control Plane - the Universal Broker, and Multi-Cloud Assignments.
Announcing the Updated VMware Workspace ONE and VMware Horizon Reference Architecture
July 07, 2020
The VMware EUC Technical Marketing team has been hard at work, and I am delighted to announce an update to the VMware Workspace ONE and VMware Horizon Reference Architecture.
DEMO: Create an Instant-Clone Desktop Pool in Horizon 7
July 02, 2020
In this demo, you learn about and step through the process of creating an instant-clone desktop pool. This interactive demo gives you the ability to use the Add Desktop Pool wizard, watch the instant-clone publishing and provisioning process, and log in to the newly created desktop.
DEMO: Create an RDSH Server Farm in Horizon 7
July 02, 2020
In this demo, you learn about and step through the process of creating an instant-clone RDSH server farm for published applications and desktops. This interactive demo gives you the ability to use the Add Server Farm wizard, and then watch the instant-clone process unfold, first publishing the master image and then creating the clones.
VMware Workspace ONE and VMware Horizon Reference Architecture
July 01, 2020
This reference architecture provides a framework and guidance for architecting an integrated digital workspace using VMware Workspace ONE and VMware Horizon. Design guidance is given for each product—with a corresponding component design chapter devoted to each product—followed by chapters that provide best practices for integrating the components into a complete platform.
Horizon Adoption Kit Assets
June 30, 2020
This campaign kit includes several tools that are pre-designed, pre-written, or pre-planned to make it extremely simple for your company to promote adoption of VMware Horizon using Workspace ONE to your employees.
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