This book covers all Horizon Suite (Workspace, Mirage and View) concerning planning, implementation and examples. It's published by VMware press and the author are Paul O'Doherty and Stephane Asselin.
Looking at the content gives you already the idea whats in. Three VMware products within the Horizon suite are covered.
The VMware Horizon Suite: Building End User Experience book covers latest versions of Workspace (1.8), View (v6.0) and Mirage (v5.0). For example, the details talks about View configuration of graphics, like Soft 3D and SVGA, vSGA and vDGA or integration with Microsoft Lync server.
Also I've seen quite a few chapters on tuning the PCoIP protocol's parameters, using the bandwidth, checking out the connection latency or packet loss. Also there is a chapter on VMware View Planner utility. A complete section is also highlighting external software like Xangati VDI dashboard, VMware vCenter Operation Management for View, Liquidware labs Stratosphere and taking a look at the overall performance.
The book has 12 chapters (over 400 pages) and 2 appendix with Design questionnaire worksheet and Horizon network ports.
Quote from Amazon:
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.
The book covers 3 products! Can be used as a very good guide when planning, implementing or architecting Horizon View installations. I certainly gonna get me a copy.
VMware Horizon Suite: Building End User Experience – The Chapters:
Chapter 1: The End-User Model
Chapter 2: VMware View Architecture
Chapter 3: VMware Workspace Architecture
Chapter 4: VMware View Implementation
Chapter 5: VMware Workspace Implementation
Chapter 6: Installing VMware View and Workspace
Chapter 7: View Operations and Management
Chapter 8: VMware Workspace Operations
Chapter 9: VMware Horizon Mirage
Chapter 10: Multimedia
Chapter 11: Integrating Lync and VMware View
Chapter 12: Performance Monitoring of VMware Horizon
The book is available at Amazon with discounted price of $42.87 (full price $54.99).
The Kindle electronic version costs $27.49. Check out the details.
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