The automation strategies described in this guide do not apply to VMware Horizon ® Cloud Service™ on Microsoft Azure, which uses Azure VMs that you import from the Azure Marketplace. For installation instructions, see the Quick-Start Tutorial for VMware Horizon 8. If you plan to create Horizon desktop pools or RDSH server farms, ideally at this point you would also have Horizon Connection Server installed and configured. You will enter this information when you install the App Volumes Agent on the primary VM image. If you intend to use VMware App Volumes™, you must have the host name or IP address of the server on which App Volumes Manager is installed or the load balancer fronting the server on which App Volumes Manager is installed.An infrastructure that includes Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP.VMware ESXi™ host or hosts configured in the vCenter Server instance.For information and installation instructions, see the VMware vSphere documentation. We used vSphere 7.0 U2b and Horizon 2103 in our testing. Verify that you have the following components installed and configured: Your VMware vSphere infrastructure can reside either on-premises or on one or more cloud platforms. Important: This guide describes how to automate the creation of VMware vSphere® VMs that have an optimized Windows 10 or Windows Server guest operating system, with various VMware agents installed and, optionally, other applications.īefore you can perform the procedures in this guide, you must have certain infrastructure components installed and configured. However, you should feel free to deploy the solution as you prefer.įor a list of the Windows operating systems we tested, see the section called Tested Operating Systems, in the guide Manually Creating Optimized Windows Images for VMware Horizon VMs. This way, you get a general understanding of the process. There are various ways of doing this, such as installing various roles across VMs, but for simplicity's sake, in this guide everything is installed and configured on a single VM. In this guide, you learn how to automate the creation of images with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT), which can optionally be used with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM). Automation, while taking a bit of extra time to configure up front, repays this effort many times over in time-savings down the road and is therefore highly recommended. Although creating and updating Windows images manually is one strategy, it is error prone, cumbersome, and might lead to inconsistent results.

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