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Table Of Contents
- View Architecture Planning
- Contents
- View Architecture Planning
- Introduction to View
- Planning a Rich User Experience
- Feature Support Matrix for Horizon Agent
- Choosing a Display Protocol
- Using Hosted Applications
- Using View Persona Management to Retain User Data and Settings
- Using USB Devices with Remote Desktops and Applications
- Using the Real-Time Audio-Video Feature for Webcams and Microphones
- Using 3D Graphics Applications
- Streaming Multimedia to a Remote Desktop
- Printing from a Remote Desktop
- Using Single Sign-On for Logging In
- Monitors and Screen Resolution
- Managing Desktop and Application Pools from a Central Location
- Advantages of Desktop Pools
- Advantages of Application Pools
- Reducing and Managing Storage Requirements
- Application Provisioning
- Deploying Individual Applications Using an RDS Host
- Deploying Applications and System Updates with View Composer
- Deploying Applications and System Updates with Instant Clones
- Managing VMware ThinApp Applications in View Administrator
- Deploying and Managing Applications Using App Volumes
- Using Existing Processes or VMware Mirage for Application Provisioning
- Using Active Directory GPOs to Manage Users and Desktops
- Architecture Design Elements and Planning Guidelines for Remote Desktop Deployments
- Virtual Machine Requirements for Remote Desktops
- View ESXi Node
- Desktop Pools for Specific Types of Workers
- Desktop Virtual Machine Configuration
- RDS Host Virtual Machine Configuration
- vCenter Server and View Composer Virtual Machine Configuration
- View Connection Server Maximums and Virtual Machine Configuration
- vSphere Clusters
- Storage and Bandwidth Requirements
- View Building Blocks
- View Pods
- Advantages of Using Multiple vCenter Servers in a Pod
- Planning for Security Features
- Understanding Client Connections
- Choosing a User Authentication Method
- Restricting Remote Desktop Access
- Using Group Policy Settings to Secure Remote Desktops and Applications
- Using Smart Policies
- Implementing Best Practices to Secure Client Systems
- Assigning Administrator Roles
- Preparing to Use a Security Server
- Understanding View Communications Protocols
- Overview of Steps to Setting Up a View Environment
- Index
Reducing and Managing Storage Requirements
Deploying desktops on virtual machines that are managed by vCenter Server provides all the storage
efficiencies that were previously available only for virtualized servers. Using instant clones or View
Composer linked clones as desktop machines increases the storage savings because all virtual machines in a
pool share a virtual disk with a base image.
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Managing Storage with vSphere on page 37
vSphere lets you virtualize disk volumes and file systems so that you can manage and configure
storage without having to consider where the data is physically stored.
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Using Virtual SAN for High-Performance Storage and Policy-Based Management on page 39
VMware Virtual SAN is a software-defined storage tier, available with vSphere 5.5 Update 1 or a later
release, that virtualizes the local physical storage disks available on a cluster of vSphere hosts. You
specify only one datastore when creating an automated desktop pool or an automated farm, and the
various components, such as virtual machine files, replicas, user data, and operating system files, are
placed on the appropriate solid-state drive (SSD) disks or direct-attached hard disks (HDDs).
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Using Virtual Volumes for Virtual-Machine-Centric Storage and Policy-Based Management on
page 40
With Virtual Volumes (VVols), available with vSphere 6.0 or a later release, an individual virtual
machine, not the datastore, becomes a unit of storage management. The storage hardware gains
control over virtual disk content, layout, and management.
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Reducing Storage Requirements with View Composer on page 41
Because View Composer creates desktop images that share virtual disks with a base image, you can
reduce the required storage capacity by 50 to 90 percent.
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Reducing Storage Requirements with Instant Clones on page 42
The instant clones feature leverages vSphere vmFork technology (available with vSphere 6.0U1 and
later) to quiesce a running base image, or parent virtual machine, and hot-clone it to create a pool of
up to 2,000 instant clones.
Managing Storage with vSphere
vSphere lets you virtualize disk volumes and file systems so that you can manage and configure storage
without having to consider where the data is physically stored.
Fibre Channel SAN arrays, iSCSI SAN arrays, and NAS arrays are widely used storage technologies
supported by vSphere to meet different datacenter storage needs. The storage arrays are connected to and
shared between groups of servers through storage area networks. This arrangement allows aggregation of
the storage resources and provides more flexibility in provisioning them to virtual machines.
Compatible vSphere 5.0 and 5.1 or Later Features
With vSphere 5.0 or a later release, you can use the following features:
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With the View storage accelerator feature, you can configure ESXi hosts to cache virtual machine disk
data.
Using this content-based read cache (CBRC) can reduce IOPS and improve performance during boot
storms, when many machines start up and run anti-virus scans at the same time. Instead of reading the
entire OS from the storage system over and over, a host can read common data blocks from cache.
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If remote desktops use the space-efficient disk format available with vSphere 5.1 and later, stale or
deleted data within a guest operating system is automatically reclaimed with a wipe and shrink
process.
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