Eric Sloof - NTPRO.NL

Learn all about designing, installing, configuring, and managing VMware Horizon, with a core focus on how to deliver virtual desktops using Horizon. This book allows you to follow the complete process for deploying VMware Horizon and covers the design, deployment, and management of solutions. 

You'll start by reviewing remote solutions, from virtual desktops to published applications, including the benefits and what the different solutions deliver. Once through the high-level technology you'll then look at the VMware Horizon solution focusing on the architecture and the components that make up the solution and how to design a production-ready environment.  Other VMware EUC technologies that complement the core Horizon solution will also be incorporate into it. 

Armed with the knowledge of how to design a solution, you'll move onto the installation phase and start to build a test lab environment. Once your lab is installed, you'll move onto the configuration stage where you will understand how to build, configure, and optimize virtual desktops, and desktop pools ready for end-users to use. As part of this you will also look at delivering published applications with Horizon Apps.

With resources built and configured you can optimize the end-user experience with Horizon clients. The final sections of the book will focus on the other complementary solutions introducing you to VMware App Volumes and VMware Dynamic Environment Manager before finishing with how to manage the solution where we will look at some advanced configuration options and troubleshooting techniques.

What You Will Learn

• See the core components of VMware Horizon and their functionality
• Design and install a Horizon environment
• Deliver the best end-user experience
• Manage the deployed solution
• Use VMware reference architectures to create real-life scenario examples
• Review the minimum requirements for designing a solution 

In this technical paper, VMware discusses the VM snapshot operation and its impact on the performance of guest applications and how it affects other VM provisioning operations.

Their study explores these performance aspects in VMFS, vSAN, and vVOL environments with a variety of workloads and provides recommendations.

In addition, they look at VM snapshot performance in a vSphere/Kubernetes environment.

I've created a mind map for vRealize Automation SaltStack Config and posted a copy on GitHub. The mind map is created in SimpleMind.  You can copy the smmx file to your own path, for example: 

/Users/esloof/Library/Containers/com.modelmakertools.simplemindmacstd/Data/Library/com.modelmakertools.simplemindmacstd/Mind Maps

You must replace esloof with your own username. The mind map will appear in the left pane after choosing View / Show Mind Maps.

The results in this paper show that Kubernetes clusters deployed on VMware vSphere with Tanzu can match or exceed the performance of bare-metal clusters deployed on identical servers.

On vSphere, this performance advantage is achieved without the need for significant tuning and configuration steps or the modification of workloads for the use of beta state features like Kubernetes CPU Manager.

As a platform of choice for enterprise applications running on Kubernetes clusters, VMware vSphere with Tanzu provides the benefits of a virtualized infrastructure and achieves excellent performance.