Eric Sloof

Reviewer's Guide for View in Horizon 7: Overview

The Reviewer’s Guide for View in VMware Horizon 7: Overview is one of a series of guides to help you evaluate the View component of VMware Horizon 7. This guide introduces View, discusses its benefits, features, and architecture, and describes how View and other Horizon 7 components interoperate.

Application Publishing with Horizon 7

This document guides you through the steps to publish applications with VMware Horizon 7. You install and configure Horizon 7, prepare an RDSH server for application-pool deployment, set up an RDSH farm, and create an application pool. Then you test the applications and monitor remote sessions. Advanced topics cover integration with App Volumes, User Environment Manager, Workspace ONE, and VMware Identity Manager.

Reviewer's Guide for View in Horizon 7: Install and Configure

The Reviewer’s Guide for View in VMware Horizon 7: Installation and Configuration guide helps you evaluate the virtual desktop component of Horizon 7. This document provides exercises to guide you through the basic installation and initial configuration process.

Reviewer's Guide for View in Horizon 7: Instant Clones

This guide, part of the Reviewer's Guide for View in Horizon 7, provides a comprehensive technical overview of Instant Clone Technology, a new feature of the View component of VMware Horizon 7. Instant Clone Technology improves and accelerates the process of creating cloned virtual desktops as compared to the previous View Composer linked-clone technology. In addition, instant clones require less storage and less expense to manage and update.

The Performance Best Practices for VMware vSphere 6.5, technical white paper provides performance tips that cover the most performance-critical areas of VMware vSphere 6.5. It is not intended as a comprehensive guide for planning and configuring your deployments.

• Hardware for Use with VMware vSphere, rovides guidance on selecting hardware for use with vSphere.
• ESXi and Virtual Machines, provides guidance regarding VMware ESXi software and the virtual machines that run in it.
• Guest Operating Systems, provides guidance regarding the guest operating systems running in vSphere virtual machines.
• Virtual Infrastructure Management, provides guidance regarding infrastructure management best practices.

VMware Horizon Apps provides a single platform for delivering virtualized Windows applications and shared desktop sessions from Windows Server instances using Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS).

With Horizon Apps, you can publish business-critical Windows apps alongside SaaS and mobile apps in a single digital workspace, easily accessed with single sign-on from any authenticated device or OS.


This white paper provides a reference architecture for Horizon Apps Advanced Edition, which includes the RDSH features of VMware Horizon 7 Enterprise Edition. This reference architecture is based on addressing key business requirements such as making standard Windows applications available to employees, and targeting use cases such as task workers and knowledge workers.

As VMware vSphere DRS has become more widely adopted now, more and more users are interested in knowing how it works. They need more insights into DRS activity and actions. They want to know the value that DRS provides to their clusters. DRS Lens is an attempt to provide a UI-based solution to help understand DRS better.

DRS Lens provides a simple, yet powerful interface to highlight the value proposition of vSphere DRS. Providing answers to simple questions about DRS will help quell many of the common concerns that users may have. DRS Lens provides different dashboards in the form of tabs for each cluster being monitored:

• Cluster Balance
• VM Happiness
• vMotions
• Operations

DRS Lens provides a simple, yet powerful interface to highlight the value proposition of vSphere DRS. Providing answers to simple questions about DRS will help quell many of the common concerns that users may have.

This short demo shows Horizon Smart Policies customizing the user experience as they run a Horizon remote application. You will see an example of how Horizon Smart Policies are configured and their impact on user experience.

Here's a video showing you how to deploy configure and test a VMware Unified Access Gateway Appliance in a lab/PoC environment.