Installation and Setup Guide

Procedure
1 Select File >  VMware Blast from the menu bar.
2 Congure the decoding and network condition options.
Option Action
H.264
Congure this option to allow H.264 decoding in Horizon Client.
When this option is selected (the default seing), Horizon Client uses H.
264 decoding if the agent supports H.264 software or hardware encoding.
If the agent does not support H.264 software or hardware encoding,
Horizon Client uses JPG/PNG decoding.
Deselect this option to use JPG/PNG decoding.
Select your network condition for
the best experience
Select one of the following network condition options:
n
Excellent - Horizon Client uses only TCP networking. This option is
ideal for a LAN environment.
n
Typical (default) - Horizon Client works in mixed mode. In mixed
mode, Horizon Client uses TCP networking when connecting to the
server and uses Blast Extreme Adaptive Transport (BEAT) if the agent
and Blast Security Gateway (if enabled) support BEAT connectivity.
This option is the default seing.
n
Poor - Horizon Client uses only BEAT networking if the BEAT Tunnel
Server is enabled on the server, otherwise it switches to mixed mode.
N In Horizon 7 version 7.1 and earlier, Connection Server and
Security Server instances do not support the BEAT Tunnel Server.
Unied Access Gateway 2.9 and later supports the BEAT Tunnel Server.
Blast Security Gateway for Connection Server and Security Server
instances do not support BEAT networking.
3 Click OK to save your changes.
Changes for H.264 take eect the next time a user connects to a remote desktop or application and selects
the VMware Blast display protocol. Your changes do not aect existing VMware Blast sessions.
Horizon Client Data Collected by VMware
If your company participates in the customer experience improvement program, VMware collects data from
certain Horizon Client elds. Fields that contain sensitive information are anonymous.
VMware collects data on client systems to prioritize hardware and software compatibility. If your company's
administrator has opted to participate in the customer experience improvement program, VMware collects
anonymous data about your deployment to respond beer to customer requirements. VMware does not
collect data that identies your organization. Horizon Client information is sent rst to the Connection
Server instance and then to VMware, with data from Connection Server, desktop pools, and remote
desktops.
Although the information is encrypted while in transit to the Connection Server instance, the information on
the client system is logged unencrypted in a user-specic directory. The logs do not contain any personally
identiable information.
The administrator who installs Connection Server can select whether to participate in the VMware customer
experience improvement program while running the Connection Server installation wizard, or an
administrator can set an option in Horizon Administrator after the installation.
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