tennesseecas.blogg.se - Install horizon client

Once my VM booted, I installed VMware tools and the Horizon agent on it. I ran it on a Dell PowerEdge R610 ESXi 6.0U2 host, using a local datastore backed by a Micron M500DC 2.5" SSD drive.Īs my vCenter server was temporarily down, I used the new Web-based VMware Host Client rather than the vSphere native client to access my ESXi host directly. To test the Direct Connect Plugin, I created a 32-bit Windows 7 Professional virtual machine (VM) with 2 vCPU, 3GB RAM and 128MB video memory with 3D graphics enabled.

If you don't have a Horizon license, you can download these packages under a 60-day trial license. You can select either 32- or 64-bit versions of these packages be sure that you select the correct packages for the virtual desktop on which they'll be installed.

Horizon 4 HTML Access Direct Connection.

To use Horizon 7 Direct Connection, you'll need to download the following packages from VMware: Connecting directly to a virtual desktop. Connecting to a Virtual Desktop through a View Connection Server. What Direct Connect does provide is the ability to connect to a virtual desktop using various protocols, without having to set up an entire View environment.

It's very important to note that when using Direct Connect, end users will lose features that the Connection Server provides, including the automatic provisioning of desktops, single pane management of desktops and users, single sign-on (SSO), desktop pool assignment of users, and other benefits that a full View environment provides. Figure 2 shows a connection to a virtual desktop with the Direct Connect plugin. All the features of the display protocol, such as USB redirection, function when connecting with Direct Connect.įigure 1 shows a connection to virtual desktop using the View Connection server. By using this plugin, an end user can connect directly to a virtual desktop using PCoIP, RDP or Blast Extreme without going through a View Connection server. The View Direct Connect Plugin was first released with View 5.3. Seeing how very few people are familiar with Direct Connect, I thought I'd give an overview of what it is, how to set it up and how to use it. In order to connect to my View 7 desktop without setting up a Horizon View 7 Connection Server, I used View Direct Connect Agent Plugin, which comes with Horizon View. I was doing work with my Horizon 6.2 environment, which I wouldn’t be able to upgrade for a few weeks. In order to work with the protocol, and write my article on Blast Extreme, I needed to connect to a virtual desktop running the Horizon View 7 agent from a Horizon 4 client. Blast Extreme is an interesting new feature, touted by VMware as being comparable to PCoIP. Horizon 7 includes Blast Extreme, a new remote display protocol.