Vmware horizon view client multiple monitors

#VMWARE HORIZON VIEW CLIENT MULTIPLE MONITORS HOW TO#
#VMWARE HORIZON VIEW CLIENT MULTIPLE MONITORS INSTALL#
#VMWARE HORIZON VIEW CLIENT MULTIPLE MONITORS UPGRADE#
#VMWARE HORIZON VIEW CLIENT MULTIPLE MONITORS FULL#

The Windows Horizon client is supported on Windows 10, 8, 8.1 and 7. In this example, I installed the Windows Horizon client.

There are clients for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android. The Horizon client software can be downloaded here. To connect to a virtual desktop, you'll need to download the Horizon 4 client for the end point device to which you'll be connecting.

#VMWARE HORIZON VIEW CLIENT MULTIPLE MONITORS INSTALL#

I opted to wait to install the HTML access package until after I'd worked with the Horizon client. A reboot isn't required after installing the plugin. Next, I installed the Direct Connect Plugin, which allows you to configure the port to listen for HTTPS connections (the default port is 443) the firewall can also be configured automatically. The VM needed a reboot after installing the View agent. While installing the agent, I disabled VMware Horizon View Composer and VMware Horizon 7 Persona Management, and enabled Real-Time Audio-Video, USB Redirection, and Client Drive Redirection.

The /v VDM_SKIP_BROKER_REGISTRATION=1 segment was necessary because I wanted to connect to the virtual desktop using HTML in addition to the Horizon client. I installed the View agent from the command line: VMware-viewagent-y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe /v VDM_SKIP_BROKER_REGISTRATION=1 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.ДЄs 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.

#VMWARE HORIZON VIEW CLIENT MULTIPLE MONITORS FULL#

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.ДЇigure 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.

#VMWARE HORIZON VIEW CLIENT MULTIPLE MONITORS HOW TO#

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.

#VMWARE HORIZON VIEW CLIENT MULTIPLE MONITORS UPGRADE#

I was doing work with my Horizon 6.2 environment, which I wouldnвЂ™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.

Vmware horizon view client multiple monitors