Horizon 7 introduces several new features including just-in-time desktops that instantly provision desktops and applications when users log in using VMware's instant clone technology. It also features smart policies that dynamically change desktop configurations based on user location or device. Infrastructure updates improve scalability and failover capabilities. The user experience is enhanced with support for 3D graphics, new protocols like Blast Extreme for optimized mobile access, and expanded capabilities for hosted applications and RDS desktops.

1. What's New with Horizon 7
Tony Huynh, VMware
Henry Robinson, VMware
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Disclaimer
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3. Agenda
1 Horizon 7
2 Infrastructure Updates
3 User Experience
4 Summary
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4. Horizon 7

5. VMware Horizon Portfolio
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MAIN OFFICE REMOTE OFFICE CAMPUS SPECIALIST MOBILE NON-EMPLOYEE
Horizon Flex
Containerized desktops
and apps
Horizon Air
Cloud Hosted or Hybrid
Desktop and app delivery
from the cloud
Horizon 7
Desktop and app
delivery from private
cloud

6. Innovations in Horizon 7
Make the Mobile Cloud a Reality
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Just-in-Time
Desktops
Access &
Authentication
True SSO
Blast Extreme
Experience /
GPU Support
Hybrid Cloud Ready
App Lifecycle
Management
Smart Policies

7. Horizon Makes Desktop and App Management Easy
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Horizon centralizes end users' desktops and applications in the datacenter, so IT can efficiently provision new
clients, centralize desktop management, and improve security and compliance and is based on 7 key pillars
Desktops and
Apps From a
Single Platform
Smart PoliciesJust-in-Time
Desktops
Great User
Experience
Flexible and
Hybrid Delivery
SDDC
Integration
Complete
Environment
Management

8. Just-in-Time Desktops
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With innovative technologies like Instant Clones, User Environment Management
and App Volumes—Horizon ensures that IT can streamline desktop and application
management like never before, providing employees with truly stateless desktops.
Drive Down
Storage Costs by
>30%
Deliver Apps
Instantly
Streamline
OpEX by >50%

9. User-installed
Apps
Applications 1
Applications 2
Instant Clones
Windows Windows
Windows
User Data
Data/Files
User 1
Personalization
User 1
Data/Files
User 2
Personalization
User 2
Corporate Apps
Instant Clones
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+ + +
Overview
• Just-In-Time Desktops (Operating System, Applications, and user
data) instantly provisioned for the user at login.
• Instant Clones use VMware vmFork technology to rapidly provision
new desktops from a parent desktop (Gold Master).
• Administrators have the option to either provision a pool up front or
create an elastic pool of desktops that grow or shrink to meet
demand.
Benefits
• Ideal User Experience. Instantly delivers the most up to date
desktop with the latest version of the operating system and
applications.
• Simplified desktop administration. Operating system and
applications are patched on a rolling basis. Maintenance window is
virtually eliminated.
• High performance. VMware vmFork technology provisions
desktops on demand with no boot storms and efficient storage
utilization.

10. Instant Clones
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Data/Files
User 1
Personalization
User 1
Applications 1Applications 2
Cloning Desktop
User
Loading ApplicationsCustomizing DesktopJust In Time Desktop
How It Works
• Instant Clones leverage VMware vmFork technology
‒ A running, powered on desktop (Parent Virtual Machine) is quiesced and
cloned.
‒ Clones share the disk and memory of the Parent VM for reads – space and
memory efficiency;
• The guest OS is customized, joins the domain, and is ready for user
login as the desktop fully powers on
• Instant Clones can be non-persistent or persistent desktops
‒ Instant Clones by themselves are non-persistent (e.g. for call center users)
‒ App Volumes and UEM enable a persistent experience by attaching and
managing corporate apps, user data and profiles, and user installed
applications.
• The desktop is destroyed at the time of user logoff. A new, fresh and
updated desktop is created and ready for the next user log in.
• Desktop maintenance is virtually eliminated
‒ Patching the Operating System is as simple as updating the Parent Virtual
Machine. A user automatically gets an updated desktop at next login. No
lengthy recompose operation.
‒ Desktops are short-lived and always recreated and automatically optimized
for best performance. No separate rebalance operation is required.

11. Instant Clones vs View Composer
Instant Clones
• Faster provisioning
– Desktops on demand, created in seconds
• Better performance
– No boot storms – desktops always powered on and
ready for login
– Desktop clones share disk and memory for reads,
better performance through common cache
– Significantly less load on vCenter
• Simplified desktop administration
– No refresh, recompose, rebalanced
– SE-Sparse and clone-level CBRC no longer needed
– No separate database of View Composer
– Leverages App Volumes and UEM for desktop
personalization
View Composer
• Slower provisioning
– Desktops takes several minutes to provision per
desktop, new pools take hours
• Desktop Administration Challenges
– Patching requires lengthy Recompose operations;
entire pools are offline for hours
– Frequent refresh and rebalance for ongoing
maintenance
– Pool provisioning and patching caused boot storms
and heavy vCenter load
– Separate View Composer server and database
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12. Desktop Types Revisited – Just-in-Time
Non-Persistent
Desktops
Persistent
Desktops
Windows
Windows Windows
+
Instant Clones Corporate Apps User-installed
Apps
Data/Files
User 1
Personalization
User 1
Data/Files
User 2
Personalization
User 2
User Data
Applications 1
Applications 2
+ +
• Best user experience
• Simplified, consistent management, no patch maintenance window
• Provisioning on-demand
• Space efficient

13. Smart Policies

14. Smart Policies
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True SSO
Experience
Policy-Managed
Client Features
Access Point
Authentication
Common Criteria /
FIPS 140-2
Policies are tied to the end user allowing IT to be able to provide end users with a
truly contextual user experience with policies dynamically changes depending on
the device used or the location services are being accessed from.

15. Access & Authentication: True SSO
Overview
• Users authenticate to VMware Identity Manager using a variety of
credential options
• Once authenticated, users can select any Windows desktop or
application without needing to present AD or Smartcard credentials
• Uses SAML to connect the Identity Provider’s (IdP) authentication
with the user’s UPN for access to AD credentials
• True SSO generates a unique, short-lived certificate to manage the
Windows logon process
Benefits
• Separates Authentication (validating a user’s identity) from Access
(user can use a Windows desktop or application)
• Enhanced security. User credentials are secured by digital
certificate, no passwords are vaulted or transferred within the
datacenter
• Supports a wide range of authentication methods – enterprises
can select or change authentication protocols with limited impact to
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AD
vIDM
Appliance
Connection
Server
Enrolment
Server
Certificate
Authority
Client
Device
VM /
RDSH

16. Infrastructure Updates

17. Cloud Pod Architecture (CPA)
Overview
• Combines multiple Horizon environments (POD) into a single
Federation
• PODs managed independently. Different versions or configurations
are ok.
• User has global entitlements, can granted access to desktops or
applications across PODs
• A user accesses CPA through any POD
• Global Load Balancer or GeoDNS to nearest POD
• Flexible configuration to direct user to Home Site
• CPA useful for load balancing and failover
• Horizon Admin Console:
• CPA Configuration, Global User Entitlements
• Single View for User Sessions 17
Federation of Horizon Environments

18. Cloud Pod Architecture
Overview
• Increased scale - CPA allows federation of up to 25 Horizon
PODs across up to five sites for a scale of 50,000 sessions
• More flexible entitlements - CPA now allows home site
assignments for nested AD security groups.
• Improved failover support - Home site users now directed to
available desktops at other site.
• Integration with VMware Identity Manager - Identity Manager
presents desktops or applications available from any CPA Pod.
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Scale and Failover Improvements

19. Access Point – Overview
• Hardened appliance for external user access
• SLES 12 Linux Appliance
• Added Security & Multifactor Authentication
• Pass-Through Authentication to CS
• Smart Card Support – GA
• SAML Pass-Thru support
• RADIUS / SecurID Support
• Blast support over 443 (Port Sharing)
• API’s for service and Perf Stats
• Enhanced Health Status
Overview

20. Automation Improvements
• A powerful, complete, integrated scripting environment for Horizon
• Allows administrators to automate every aspect of Horizon administration
– Pool Management
– User Entitlement
– Desktop and Application Provisioning
– … and much more
• Integrated with VMware PowerCLI for an end-to-end experience
• Consider attending INF8092 with Alan Renouf and Luc Dekens, Tuesday at 12:30pm for more
information
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21. User Experience

22. Enhancing
the Remote
Experience
with Blast
Extreme
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• End users enjoy better
battery life across their
devices
• Supports end users with
great performance even
over lossy networks
• Provides organizations with
added flexibility when
optimizing the user
experience across use
cases
• Ensures end users have the
same great experience
regardless of where their
infrastructure and desktops
are deployed from.
Designed to deliver
better user experience
across a range of low-
cost devices including
zero and thin clients.

23. Blast Extreme - The Mobile Cloud Protocol
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Use Less Bandwidth:
Deliver better video to more users
Broad Client Support:
H264 available in most devices
GRID Optimized:
Deliver more 3D users
Network Friendly:
TCP or UDP works in more places
Built for the Cloud:
Adapts better to lossy networks
Better Battery Life:
Optimized for mobile workers

24. Same Horizon Clients / Broadest Support for Every Use Case
Same Common Feature-Rich User Experience
Multiple Protocols
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Blast Extreme & PCoIP: Feature Parity
Hosted Apps
& RDS
Desktops
Printing Scanning
& Imaging
Devices
USB Audio In/OutSmart
Card
Client Drive
Redirection
Windows Media
Redirection
File Type
Association
Unified
Communi-
cations
Webcams
Session
Enhancement
SDK
RDP VC
Bridge SDK
Blast Extreme & PCoIP
Mac iOSLinux
Thin Clients
Windows Android Chrome OS HTML
(Blast Only)
Common SDKs

25. WAN Optimization: Riverbed SteelHead and VMware Horizon 7 /
Blast Extreme
• Additional acceleration benefit depending on applications
and workloads
SteelHead
• #1 industry-leading application and
network optimization solution
• Addresses bandwidth and latency
through deduplication,
compression, TCP/IP optimization,
application-specific acceleration,
and more

26. vRealize Operations for Horizon with Blast Extreme
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• Blast Session Statistics
– Round Trip Latency (RTT)
– Encode Frame Rate (FPS)
– Protocol TX Bandwidth (throughput)
– Estimated Bandwidth

27. Horizon 3D Graphics Update
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 Supports NVIDIA GRID K1, K2, M6,
M10 and M60 graphics cards
 Higher scalability and frames per
second (FPS)
 Supports 4K resolution and up to 4
monitors
 1:1 Pass-Through with vDGA
 Supports 4K resolution
 Enhances 3D and multimedia
experience

28. Continuing to Evolve Our RDS Hosted App Capabilities
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Continued investment in RDS hosted app capabilities and significant new capabilities
Hosted Apps
and RDS
Desktops
Printing
Scanning
and Imaging
Devices
Smart
Card
USB
Storage
Devices
HTML5 and
Chromebook
Clients
Client
Drive
Redirection
Windows
Media
Redirection
File
Type
Association
Skype for
Business /
Lync 2013
for RDS
Desktops
3D Apps
and
Desktops
with NVIDIA
GRID
URL
Content
Redirection
RTAV
USB
Redirection
Hosted Apps
and RDS
Desktops
Application
Layering
User
Environment
Management
Load
Balancing
RDSH Image
Management
Q2 2014 – USER EXPERIENCE
Q2 2014 – MANAGEMENT
Q3 2016
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29. RDSH Client Peripherals
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High Level Device Redirection
 Printers
 Scanners & Imaging devices
 USB Storage Drives
 Smartcards
 Webcams1
 Microphones1
Generic USB Redirection / HID redirection2
 Signature Pads
 Barcode scanners
 Credit Card Readers
 Speech Mics
 Dictation Foot Pedals
 Fingerprint Readers
 Pin Pads
1 – Upcoming release of Horizon
2 - Windows client only and limited to Windows 2012 / 2012 R2 RDS Hosts; available with
upcoming release of Horizon

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Seamless User Experience
 Easily access to your applications with
File Type Association
 Quick and seamless access to your files
 Start-menu integration for quick pinning
of commonly used
Optimized User
Experience with
Horizon RDS
Applications

31. Our RDS Hosted Apps are Best-in-Class
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Hosted Apps
and RDS
Desktops
Printing
Scanning and
Imaging Devices
Smart
Card
USB Storage
Devices
HTML5 and
Chromebook
Clients
Client Drive
Redirection
Windows Media
Redirection
File Type
Association
Skype for
Business / Lync
2013 for RDS
Desktops
3D Apps and
Desktops with
NVIDIA GRID
URL Content
Redirection
RTAV
USB
Redirection
Application
Layering
User
Environment
Management
Load
Balancing
RDSH Image
Management

32. Summary

33. Summary
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• Horizon 7 – Best in class platform for delivering desktops and applications
• Just in Time (JIT) desktops leverages power of the SDDC streamline delivery of desktops
and applications and reduce TCO
• Continued focus on optimizing user experience with 3D graphics, rich client features, brand
new protocol – Blast Extreme
• Commitment to making Horizon RDSH industry leader

36. What's New with Horizon 7
Tony Huynh, VMware
Henry Robinson, VMware
EUC8404
#EUC8404