VMware Horizon ICM Day 1

9:30 ~ 11:15

Day 1

Module 1 課程介紹

架構

Client

• Horizon Client

Horizon Connection Server

Desktop Pool

• Horizon Agent
• Desktop 產生方式
• Manual 5 - 10 mins
• Full clone ( Template )
• Linked clone ( 2 - 3 mins )
• Instant clone ( 30 secs )

文件

• https://www.vmware.com/tw/support/support-resources/pubs/view_pubs.html

Module 2 Introduction to VMware Horizon

VMware Horizon Architecture Layers

• User
• Client Access Devices
• Access Infrastructure
• Profile / Session / Application Provisioning
• Virtual Desktop
• VMware Infrastructure

View Connection Server

• Desktop connection broker
• Support TrueSSO, RSA SecurID, RADIUS and smart card authentication
• Use VMware vCenter to provision virtual machines as needed
• Support multiple Windows OS for VMware Horizon desktop
• Support multiple Linux OS for VMware Horizon desktop ( from 6 )

Horizon Client System

• VMware Horizon desktop access
• HTML 5 client
• Horizon Client for multiple os and devices
• VMware Horizon API: Embedded in certain thin-client devices
• SSO to remote desktop session

Instant Clone

• 必須要 ESXi 配合
• 更快速的部署方式
• A desktop is destroyed every time a user logs out. A new, refreshed instant clone is created the next time the user logs in. ( 使用者登出就會清除 VM )

View Composer

• Can be install on a standalone system( 5.1 版以後 ) or on the vCenter system.
• Features
• Uses linked-clone technology
• Image separation
• QuickPrep or Sysprep for user personalization
• Supports vCenter Server
• VMware vCenter Server Appliance

App Volumes Architecture

Managed Application Containers

• 安裝 App Volumes Agent
• AppStack
• 唯讀的應用程式
• Writable Volume

ThinApp and Virtual Printing

• ThinApp
• 綠色程式, 單一執行檔
• Virtual Printing
• 讓使用者可以安裝印表機( 一般使用者沒有權限安裝印表機 )

Extensibility to Third-Party Management Tools

• Windows powershell

Required Active Directory Components

• Domain membership is required for
• All virtual machines
• View Connection Server

Required vSphere Components

• VMware ESXi
• vCenter Server
• 不同功能需要不同版本以上支援

== Class break ==

11:30  ~ 12:30

Lesson 2: Defining the Use Case

Use-Case Information

• Current and projected workload details
• Access scenario
• Key applications
• User activity
• Category of user

透過 Use-case 來規劃相關的環境

Module 3: View Connection Server

View Connection Server Prerequisites

• A supported version of vSphere
• At least one ESXi host
• At least one vCenter Server instance
• Host systems that are running View Connection Server must be members in AD

Preinstallation Checklist

初始化 View Connection Server

• https://FQDN/admin

== Class break ==

13:30 ~  14:00

Lab Time

14:00 ~ 15:30

Monitoring PCoIP Session Statisitics

Windows Management Instrumentation

• 透過 WMI 來監控 PCoIP session statistics

Module 4 VMware Horizon Pools and Desktops

Desktop Pool type

• Manual Desktop Pool
• Automatic Desktop Pool
• RDS Desktop Pool

Remote Enabled Users

Firewall Port

• TCP / UDP 4172 for PCoIP
• TCP 3389 for RDP
• TCP 32111 for UsB redirection
• TCP 9427 for MMR and client drive redirection
• 安裝時會自動設定

Windows Power options

• 建議停用, 使用最高效能

調整 Windows

• 分頁檔設定手動調整
• 停用還原點
• 電源選項調整為全效
• 使用 VMware OS Optimization Tool

VMware OS Optimization Tool

• https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vmware-os-optimization-tool

Disabling the Themes Service

vCenter Server Resource Pools

Remote Display Protocol

• PCoIP Remote Display Protocol
• 使用 Progressive Build ( 漸進式成像 )
• Blast Extreme
• 基於 H.264
• RDP

PCoIP Administrative Template

• The PCoIP administrative template file ( pcoip.adm )
• https://pubs.vmware.com/horizon-7-view/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.horizon-view.desktops.doc%2FGUID-633FB6A2-206E-40A2-A72B-0FD28823EBCA.html

Configuring Image Cache Size on the Client System

• Default enable

Blast Extreme Remote Display Protocol

• 基於 H.264

Blast Extreme Networking

• 使用 TCP / UDP, 如果 UDP 無法使用會切換 TCP

Remote Desktop Protocol

== Class break ==

15:45 ~  16:00

Lesson 3: Horizon Agent

Configuring the Desktop for HTML Access

• 以下 3 各部分都要設定
• Connection Server
• 桌面池
• 桌面

Windows Media Multimedia Redirection ( MMR )

• 針對 Windows 7 以後的版本支援

Horizon Agent on Desktop with Multiple NICs

• 如果 VM 有多網卡, 要指定哪一張網卡跟 Connection Server 連線, 要修改 Register key

16:00 ~ 16:30

Lab time : Lab 2

16:30 ~ 17:15

Lesson 4: Configuring Desktop Pool

Desktop Pool type

• Manual Desktop Pool
• Automatic Desktop Pool
• RDS Desktop Pool

User Assignment

• Dedicated Assignment
• Floating Assign

Configuring 3D Graphic-Intensive Applications

• Hardware-base
• Virtual Dedicated Graphics Acceleration ( vDGA ): vSphere 5.5 or later
• NVIDIA GRID vGPU ( virtual graphics processing unit ): vSphere 6.0 or later
• Software-base
• ESXi host uses software 3D graphics rendering
• vSphere 5.0 or later
• Automatic

Adobe Flash Bandwidth Reduction

Adobe Flash Throttling

• Throttling mode does not affect audio
• Throttling is disabled in full-screen mode

Reclaiming Virtual Machine Disk Space

• In vSphere 5.1 and later, you can enable the disk space reclamation feature for VMware Horizon
• 2 components
• Space-efficient disk format
• 達到要求的空間量就回收
• Space reclamation operations
• vShpere 5.1 版以後就可以

Enable View Storage Accelerator

Native NFS snapshots

• The View Composer Array Integration (VCAI) feature uses native NFS snapshots

Entitling Users and Groups

• 桌面池建立好之後, 要經由授權才能被使用
• 新增授權可以針對 Domain 內的群組或是使用者來進行授權

Restricted Entitlements ( 限定存取 )

• 限制指定的 Connection Server 只能看到特定的 Pool ( 使用 Tag 識別 )
• Normally, all pools are accessible through any connection server
• Entitlements are assigned to pools
• Using restricted entitlements, you associate one or more pools with a specific connection server.
• 如果有多標籤( Tag )用逗號 ( , ) 分隔

Tagging a Pool

Tag-Matching Rules

Connection Server	Pool	Access Permitted?
No tags	No tags	Yes
No tags	One or more tags	No
One or more tags	No tags	Yes
One or more tags	One or more tags	Only when tags match

17:15 ~ 17:30

Lab time