VMWARE HORIZON VIEW

VMWARE HORIZON VIEW INTRODUCTION

• As we all know VMware vSphere is the best server virtualization

solution available in market, VMware also provide desktop
virtualization solution named as VMware Horizon View. Once upon a
time Citrix Xen Desktop was owning VDI industry, But now VMware
Horizon View having decent market share in VDI industry.
• Any guest operating system that is supported by VMware ESXi can be
used as a desktop. As a result, if your enterprise uses Windows,
Ubuntu, Red Hat, or Solaris x86 desktops, you can use those desktops
in a virtual environment.
 VMware Horizon View Components
• VMware vSphere Infrastructure
• Horizon View Connection Server
• Horizon View Replica Server
• Horizon View Security Server
• Horizon View Enrollment Server
• Horizon View Composer
• Horizon View Agent
• Horizon View Client
• Horizon View Persona Management
• VMware ThinApp
• VMware App Volumes
• UAG (Unified Access Gateway) or Access Point
• UEM (User Environment Manager)
 • As you know VMware vSphere infrastructure includes VMware
vCenter Server, ESXi’s, Storage infrastructure and Network
Infrastructure. A VMware vCenter Server system can manage
resources and help deploy desktops. Components like VMware
vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), VMware vSphere
High Availability (HA), and VMware vSphere vMotion are
available for resource management, load balancing, and high
availability. The vCenter Server features, like templates, can be
VMware used to help deploy virtual desktops.

vSphere
Infrastructure
 • Horizon View Connection server or connection broker or
some time we call it as view manager, its a central
component of VMware Horizon View infrastructure. View
connection server server is running on top windows server
operating system, as of now there is no appliance is available
for connection server. Single connection server can handle
Horizon 2000 sessions at a time (Recommended from VMware). Its
primary role is to connect a user to their virtual desktop by
View means of performing user authentication, and then delivering
the appropriate desktop resources based on the user’s profile
Connection and user entitlement

Server
 • VMware Horizon View Replica Server, it’s a true replica copy
of primary connection server. Replica server provide High
Availability for Horizon View Connection Server. Apart from
that each connection server can handle 2000 sessions, if you
Horizon want more number of sessions you can add up to 7
connection servers as replica server in a pod. So it will be act
as a load balancer as well.
View
Replica
Server
 • As we know current IT world always think about security, end user accessing
desktops from outside network so we should keep some security setup in
our infrastructure. View Security server is one of the solution VMware
provides for Horizon View security, Security server will be deployed in DMZ
network and its should not be part of domain. If User requests for a session
access to Security server, security server will contact paired Connection
Server and enable session connection to end user, which means end user is
Horizon •
not contacting Connection Server directly.
Most of the Enterprise level organizations have their own network firewall’s

View and end to end VPN connectivity’s for security purpose.

Security
Server
 Horizon View Enrollment server sits between the connection
server and Microsoft Certificate Authority and to request
temporary certificates from certificate store. It’s working with
Horizon VMware Identity manager service and True SSO service

View
Enrollment
Server
 View composer enables linked-clone desktop provisioning in
VDI environment. Composer we can install with vCenter server
or standalone windows server. With help of View Composer we
can create linked clones which provides 50% to 90% reduction
in storage requirements for virtual desktops. It enables scalable
Horizon management of virtual desktops that are provisioned from a
single master image.

View
Composer
 View Agent will be installed on all guest virtual machines,
physical systems, or terminal servers in order to allow them to
be managed by View and also deliver as a desktop as part of
VMware Horizon View solution. The agent provides features
such as connection monitoring, Virtual Printing, USB support,
and single sign-on
Horizon
View Agent
 Horizon View Client establish connection between end user
physical system to hosted virtual machine, View client software
can be download from VMware website and install on your
personal system. There is HTML client also available now with
Horizon View suite.

Horizon
View Client
 Horizon View Persona Management, one of the add on feature
used to manage user profile settings, with just-in-time retrieval
of user profile data, file share or the use of an existing folder
redirection structure. Persona management is very useful for
Horizon floating desktop pools, simply we can call it as roaming profile

View
Persona
Management
 ThinApp is an application virtualization or application packaging
solution from VMware. ThinApp licenses are included with the
Horizon View license and can be used on both physical and
virtual desktops, therefore providing a mechanism to deliver
applications across all of your desktop models

VMware
ThinApp
 App Volumes is a real-time application delivery and lifecycle
management tool for Horizon View Infrastructure. App Volumes
to build dynamic application delivery systems that ensure that
all applications are centrally managed. Applications are
delivered to desktops through virtual disks. You do not have to
VMware modify desktops or applications themselves.

App
Volumes
UAG (Unified VMware Unified Access Gateway or
Access point created for replacing
Access windows based security server. As we all
are security concerned UAG is having
Gateway) or more security features comparing with
Access Point windows security server. More over its
coming with appliance format so it will
save some windows server licence.
 VMware User Environment Manager (UEM) is new feature for
Horizon Suite, may be it will replace VMware Persona
Management suite. UEM adds additional functionality to
standard Persona Management solution, also providing a
central management console and delivers profile customization
UEM (User to the end user’s virtual desktop machine. It works with virtual
desktop machines and physical PCs..
Environmen
t Manager)
Horizon View Architecture
Horizon View Architecture
 Microsoft
Windows
Server Features
for Horizon
View
Infrastructure
• Horizon View Administrator
console UI
 To Publish Desktop and
Application in Horizon View
1-Automated Desktop Pool

Dedicated and Floating [instant- & linked clone, full clone tech]

2-Manual Desktop Pool

3-RDS Desktop Pool

4.RDS Farm

5.Application Pool
Display Protocol VMware Blast Extreme
PCoIP
Microsoft RDP