Learning Path: Up and Working with VMware Horizon 7

VMware Horizon 7 is a commercial desktop-virtualization product designed to manage and secure applications and virtual desktops and ensures the end-user can access it from anywhere and at any point of time. It is easy to have a fundamental knowledge of VMware Horizon 7 but it is way more challenging and difficult to implement and fine-tune it according to your business needs. This Learning Path overcomes this challenge and ensures you gain the basic to advanced practical knowledge required to manage and implement Horizon 7 efficiently in your organization. So if you want to learn to centrally manage and virtualize your desktops, then go for this Learning Path.

Packt’s Video Learning Paths are a series of individual video products put together in a logical and stepwise manner such that each video builds on the skills learned in the video before it.  The highlights of this Learning Path are:

• Know the latest features of VMware Horizon 7
• A comprehensive, master-level tutorial that brings the virtues of the mobile cloud to virtual desktops and applications
• Follow and set up your lab with real-life scenarios

Let’s take a quick look at your learning journey. This Learning Path begins with an overview of the Horizon 7 architecture. You will learn how to design and deploy your Horizon 7 environment. The Learning Path demonstrates advanced installation and configuration, which will help you to customize Horizon 7 according to your business requirements. You will build out two operating systems, optimize them for your VDI, and then go through the different methods of delivery for the instant clone, linked clone, and full clone options. Moving ahead, you will delve into the latest features of Horizon 7 such as just-in-time delivery with instant clone, modernized life cycle management, better user experience, and smart policies. Finally, you will learn best practices and troubleshooting techniques of Horizon 7.

By the end of this Learning Path, you will be able to create desktop resources by using Horizon desktop pools and fine-tune the end user experience to ensure the best optimization from your virtual desktops.

About the Author:

For this course, we have the best works of this esteemed author:

• Peter Von Oven is an experienced technical consultant and has spent the past 20 years of his IT career working with customers and partners in designing technology solutions aimed at delivering true business value. During his career, Peter has been involved in numerous large-scale enterprise projects and deployments and has presented at key IT events such as VMworld, IP EXPO, and various VMUGs across the UK. He has also worked in senior presales roles and senior presales management roles for IT giants such as Fujitsu, HP, Citrix, and VMware and was awarded VMware vExpert for 2015 and 2016. Over the past 10 years and more, Peter has focused his skills and experience by specializing in the desktop and application virtualization market and today works for market-leading desktop transformation specialists, Liquidware Labs. Peter got his first taste for writing when assisting with some of the chapters in the book Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View, which then led to four other Packt titles: VMware Horizon Mirage Essentials; VMware Horizon Workspace Essentials, co-written with Peter Bjork and Joel Lindberg; VMware Horizon View Essentials, and Mastering Horizon View, co-written with Barry Coombs.