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VMware Horizon™ 6 Overview

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VK01 Overview http://ouo.io/ONvpf

VK02 Architecture http://ouo.io/nmnRCd

VK03 Administration - Management http://ouo.io/LIWzA

VK04 Administration - VMware View Composer http://ouo.io/5bd9L

VK05 Administration - Desktop Setup http://ouo.io/RTbrp

VK06 Cloud Pod Architecture http://ouo.io/7frLWX

VK07 RDS Hosted Applications http://ouo.io/xVkN9x

VK08 Using Horizon Desktops http://ouo.io/DjIXo

VK09 Persona Management Supplement http://ouo.io/OsDjAA

VK10 VMware Horizon on Virtual SAN Supplement http://ouo.io/nW3hh

VK11 Real-Time Audio-Video Supplement http://ouo.io/K7ivI

VK12 3D Graphics Supplement http://ouo.io/HIifmd

VK13 Horizon Client for iPad and Android Devices Supplement http://ouo.io/wfS7l

VK14 PCoIP Supplement http://ouo.io/xBdl9

VK15 VMware ThinApp Supplement http://ouo.io/uvR1k

VK16 Operational Verification http://ouo.io/ZWzm4p

VK17 Validation Workbook http://ouo.io/kxJTU

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VMware Horizon 6

User Experience Display / Multimedia / Peripheral / Printing / Access

ManagementImage / Apps / Brokering / Security / Persona

Virtual Platform Server (Hosted) / Client / Mobile

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How User-Centric Computing Is Better

Traditional Desktop VMware Horizon 6

Desktop tied to device Virtual desktop is encapsulated

Slow provisioning Fast, self-service automated provisioning

Unsecured endpoint Secured environment

Difficult to manage and patch Easy to manage and patch large scale

Difficult to enforce compliance Easy to back up and recover

Capital and operational cost savings

Application encapsulation

Publish applications to users

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How Horizon 6 Improves VMware vSpherevSphere Alone Horizon 6 Adds…

VMware vCenter™ for virtual machine provisioning Automated desktop VM lifecycle management

Thin provisioning VMware View Composer™ for disk savings

Individual desktop virtual machines Patch multiple desktops using shared image with persona management

VMware vSphere® Client™ administrative UI Desktop broker with single sign-on

Content based read cache (CBRC) PCoIP remote display protocol

VMware vSphere Storage APIs – Array Integration (VAAI) USB device redirection

Virtual and location-based printing

RDS Hosted Applications

Application encapsulation and deployment

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VMware Horizon 6 – ComponentsVMware Horizon Administrator

vSphere

Horizon 6 Unified Access

Desktop broker, secured access Active Directory integration Cloud Pod Architecture for multi-site

deployments

Horizon Client for Mobile Devices Access desktops from iOS and

Android devices

Desktop VMs VMware

Virtual SAN™ Support

View Connection Server/Security Server

VMware Horizon Client for Windows, Mac Support for desktops/laptops and thin clients Self-service, single sign-on Smart card support

View Composer Disk-saving via linked clones Persona management Quick update/patch

management

Horizon Desktop

Multi Display Real-Time Audio-Video

Support

Display Protocol PCoIP RDP

Devices USB redirection

Printing Driver-free virtual printing Location based printing

ThinApp Application virtualization Integrated deployment

RDS Hosted Apps Publish RDS applications

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Horizon 6 Features• Horizon Administrator (connection and security servers)

– Desktop connection broker – Maintains desktop assignment– Support for SSL connection to desktop with RDP– Support for RSA SecurID authentication– Support for RADIUS authentication

• Supports a wide range of alternative two-factor token-based authentication options• Opens standard extension interface to allow third-party solution providers to

integrate advanced authentication extensions into Horizon 6

– Works with VMware® vCenter Server™ to provision virtual desktops as needed• Option to create automated pools of desktop virtual machines that grow on demand• Integrates with Virtual SAN

– Can broker connections to standalone virtual machines (VMware or non- VMware), physical desktops, or publish Windows RDS applications

– Supported desktop operating systems• Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8

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Key Horizon 6 Features• Horizon Unified Access

– Credential authentication against Active Directory– Support for pre-created Active Directory machine accounts– Option for single sign-on to desktop console session– Smart card support– Kiosk mode for machine based authentication

• HTML access– Access Horizon 6 desktop without installing a client– Compatible with major desktop and tablet operating systems

and browsers

• RDS Hosted Applications– Publish Windows RDS Applications to Horizon 6 users– Access with Horizon Client or VMware Workspace™

Horizon Administrator

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Horizon Unified AccessAccess MethodHorizon Client

• Windows desktops, laptops, and certified thin clients

Horizon Client for Mac• OSX 10.5 and higher

Horizon Client for Linux (vendor-provided)• For certified thin clients and repurposed desktops

Web Client• For Chrome 28, IE 9, Safari 6, Firefox 21 or later

Vendor Client (vendor-provided)

• For certified thin clients

Horizon Client for mobile devices

• iPad – Available in App Store

• Android – Available in Play Store

Horizon DesktopsvCenter virtual machines

• Automated desktop pools

Existing desktops• Existing physical PC/blade

machines• Existing virtual machines• Individual (standalone) and

manual desktop pools

Remote Desktop Services

• Remote Desktop services desktop pool

• Publish RDS applications

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Key Horizon 6 Features (cont.)• vSphere

– Scalability – Built for the largest desktop environments• Thousands of virtual machines per pod• Faster and more efficient VMware vSphere vMotion® leading to decreased

migration time for virtual machines• Shrink and grow desktops based on demand and priority – Dynamic Resource

Allocation– High performance

• Optimized for desktop workloads• Performance acceleration due to lower memory swapping• Advanced storage performance optimization options leveraging vSphere 5.0 such

as vStorage API for array integration, up to 32 hosts per cluster for NAS, content based read cache, and customizable View Composer disk drive letter

• VAAI included as tech preview

– Best density• Increased desktop virtual machine density

– High availability and business continuity

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Key Horizon Features (cont.)• Virtual SAN support

– Deploy Horizon 6 on a Virtual SAN cluster to take advantage of performance and cost benefits

– Horizon will create Virtual SAN policies based on the type of desktop pool– Virtual SAN provides SSD read and write caching backed by spinning disks

for storage

• View Storage Accelerator– Utilises content based read caching to accelerate frequently accessed,

common blocks– Hot blocks are stored in DRAM for high-speed, low latency access– Helps mitigate the impact of boot storms– Compatible with shared storage and Virtual SAN deployments

Hard disksSSD

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Key Horizon Features (cont.)• View Composer

– Uses linked clone technology• Disk savings• Faster deployment

– Image separation• Shared OS virtual disk

– Replicate changes quickly across dependent VMs– QuickPrep or Sysprep for user customization

• User persistent disk (optional)– Retains user-specific data– Can be archived and managed separately from VMs

• Disposable disk– Writes temp and page files to separate disk– Deleted when virtual machine is powered off

– Can be installed as an add-on on the same host where vCenter Server is installed or separately on a totally different host

DesktopA

MasterREAD ONLY Desktop B

Delta Disk B

Desktop A

Desktop B disk

disk

base disk

Delta Disk A

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Key Horizon 6 Features (cont.)• Horizon 6 Desktop – Display protocol

– PCoIP• Adaptive technology for optimal user experience over LAN and WAN• Fully lossless• Perceptually lossless• Smartcard supported

– RDP• Aero support with RDP 7 Client, Windows 7

– Blast• HMTL5 browser access• No client needs to be installed

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Description Benefits

• Adaptive protocol for delivering high fidelity desktops to end users

• Select Build to Lossless or Build to Perceptually Lossless

• Client side image caching• Highly tunable to suit

different environments• Use GPOs to tune agents

and clients• UDP based

• Automatically adapts based on available bandwidth• Provide crisp lossless graphics for users that rely on

graphics for their work• Configure for high user experience, low bandwidth, or

somewhere in between• Maintain high user experience even on connections with

loss or high latency

Key Horizon 6 Features – PCoIP

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Description Benefits• Choice of software,

shared hardware [virtual shared graphics acceleration (vSGA)], or dedicated hardware [virtual dedicated graphics acceleration (vDGA)] for 3D graphics

• Support for vMotion (software and vSGA)

• Dynamically switch between software and vSGA

• Enables DirectX 9 and OpenGL 2.1 apps• vMotion, VMware vSphere High Availability, and VMware

vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler™ compatible• Lower TCO / higher ROI for workloads requiring basic or

medium 3D• No Windows client side dependencies• Broad application compatibility

Key Horizon 6 Features – 3D Graphics

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• Reduce TCO with more stateless desktops by allowing more use cases to share desktops

• Profile migration – Windows user profiles from Windows XP to Windows 7 and profiles from physical computers to Horizon 6 or from Horizon 6 to Horizon 6

• Facilitates DR/BC – Files are stored in their native format on central file server

• Easy administration – GPO-based management• Scalable – No database or login scripts to impede scalability

Feature Benefits• Preserve user’s persona

between sessions• Just-in-time file retrieval of

user’s data reduces peak IOPS during login/logout storms

• Uses standard CIFS shares. • Does not require roaming

profiles but supports existing roaming profile users

• Supports all Horizon 6 guests

• Also supported on physical computers

Key Features – Horizon 6 Persona Management

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• Reduce bandwidth requirements for A/V while maintaining quality

• Virtual Webcam driver increases application support• Can enable and set policies for clients through GPOs to

reduce bandwidth

Feature Benefits• Compress A/V from client

device to Horizon 6 Desktop• Supported on Windows,

Linux, and Mac clients• Supports microphones and

Webcams• Utilizes virtual Webcam

driver• Group policy control

Key Features – Real-Time Audio-Video

ClientCompressed A/V

PCoIP

A V A V

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• Low TCO with a classic terminal services model, and favorable licensing from Microsoft

• Cross-platform support for accessing applications• Leverage existing RDSH deployment in the organization• Provide access for key business applications to external

stakeholders

Feature Benefits• Publish applications to users

instead of desktops• Seamless look and feel for

the user• Utilize Horizon 6 Client

across platforms including Mac and iOS to access Windows applications

• Horizon 6 will spread users across available RDSH servers

• Integrate with Horizon Workspace

Key Features – RDS Hosted Applications

APP APP

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• Increase Horizon 6 scalability• Configure Horizon 6 Pod architecture to direct users to their

home site or to a DR site in the event of failure• Have users moving between sites get the correct desktops• Provide a single Horizon URL for users across the org

Feature Benefits• Connect multiple Horizon

pods together across sites• Support for active/active and

DR use cases• Support for geo-roaming

users• Single namespace

Key Features – Cloud Pod Architecture

Federated Horizon Pods

Pod 1

VCS 1 VCS 2

LDAP Replication

Pod 2

VCS 3 VCS 4

LDAP Replication

Global LDAP Replication

Inter-pod comm.

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Key Horizon 6 Features (cont.)• Horizon 6 Desktop – Horizon 6 USB redirection

– Automatic USB redirection to connect peripheral devices• Storage devices• Printers• Scanners• Bluetooth adapters

– USB redirection policy settings are applicable to Horizon 6 Agent as well as Horizon 6 Client

• USB recognition – Horizon 6 Client reads the device family from the device itself, not from the

device driver, so drivers need not be explicitly installed on the client

• Horizon 6 Desktop – Horizon 6 clipboard redirection

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Key Horizon 6 Features (cont.)• Horizon 6 Desktop – Horizon 6 printing

– Driver-free printing from virtual desktops– Uses ThinPrint virtualized printer driver included in Horizon 6 Client– Uses compression to minimize network utilization– Location based printing integrated with Active Directory GPOs

• ADM templates provided with VMware Horizon 6

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Key Features – Location-Based Printing for Non-Windows-Based Clients

Description Benefits

• No client side requirements or dependencies for Windows-based clients

• Managed and configured through AD GPOs• Prints to the closest network based printer from any

device

• Extends support of location based printing to non-Windows based clients

• Several location detection rules including• IP address• MAC address• User name• User group• Client hostname

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Key Horizon 6 Features (cont.)• Horizon 6 Desktop – VMware ThinApp®

– Virtualizes and encapsulates applications• Decouples applications and data from the operating system• Allows one copy of application to be run by multiple users

– Integrated deployment in View Management Console• Deploy single, multiple packages to desktop pools• Push to desktop or stream from network

Capture Store Deploy

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Key Horizon 6 Features – VMware Horizon Client for iPad

Description Benefits

• Enables full Windows desktop experience on the iPad• Connectivity over 3G and WiFi• With App Store, client is always up to date

• Horizon Client for the iPad

• Horizon Client for the iPad with PCoIP support including remote connectivity support with the View security server

• Available on the Apple App Store

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Key Horizon 6 Features – Horizon Client for Android

Description Benefits• Access Windows virtual machines from Android

devices with best possible user experience even over low bandwidth and high latency network conditions

• Connectivity over 3G and Wi-Fi, supports multitasking• Support for Kindle Fire• Client is updated through the Play Store or Kindle Store

• Horizon Client for Android

• PCoIP support and remote connectivity support with View security server

• Delivered through the Android Play Store or the Amazon Kindle Store

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