Introduction to VMware Horizon Flex

• As a business person, do you feel depressed about the inconvenience of mobile office?

• As an office white-collar worker, do you love your home Mac book rather than facing your company desktop?

• As an IT manager, have you ever thought about how to protect your company's data after outsourcing people work offsite?

Solve these problems? So easy! Welcome to the star VMware Horizon Flex. (There should be applause ...)

What is VMware Horizon FLEX?

First look at a product architecture diagram of the VMware Terminal Computing Department.

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VMware Horizon FLEX provides it with the flexibility it needs to serve its own device users, Mac users, contractors, and mobile workers, while ensuring that the company's desktops are secure, controllable, and compliant.

Let us think about it, what are the advantages of flex?

• Bring your own devices and Macs to your enterprise

  Flex makes it easy to provide a local virtual desktop to Mac users.

• Companies can easily empower, control, and protect virtual desktops
  

• Can work anywhere

  This is true even when you are on the road or are not connected to the network. When it comes to this, business people should be very much in favor of the flex product.

  VDI products have high performance requirements for the network, and network disconnection and latency can make the user experience very bad. and locally delivered desktop products Horizon Flex also provides a rich desktop experience and ensures productivity in the case of a disconnected network.

• Easily update the contents of a virtual desktop

  Use Mirage for Horizon FLEX tiering technology to manage, back up, or patch Windows virtual desktops, or continue using your own Windows image management tools.

• Flex is easy to use and reduces costs by eliminating the need to add new IT equipment

  Fusion/workstation player ever used it? Flex is a feature embedded in this product. Of course, I also need a laptop that can run Fusion/workstation player, and I believe most office notebooks can run this software. It is clear that the cost is indeed low enough.
  

What is VMware Horizon FLEX?

Horizon Flex's entire product is comprised of three parts, a flex policy server that controls Virtual desktop security, a virtual desktop client (Fusion or workstation Player) that the average user tries to manage, and is responsible for the mirage of image management.

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The Flex server is responsible for managing the initial VM image and policy management. The virtual desktops used by ordinary users will be downloaded from this server and managed securely by the server. The administrative interface of the policy server is relatively concise, as shown below.

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The above introduction to flex easy to use, and ordinary fusion/workstation player difference is very small, so what is the ordinary user exactly what special steps?

2. Download

   As mentioned above, the virtual desktop is controlled by the policy server, and the original desktop is also downloaded from the policy server. IT administrators can make a fuss over the underlying image, such as installing special financial software for financial personnel, and installing different development tools for the program Ape, which can save time for related workers.

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4. Login

   Each flex virtual Desktop is encrypted and has access rights set. A normal user must enter a password before opening the virtual desktop, which is also part of the security policy.

   
   

6. Operation of Virtual Desktops

   After entering the virtual desktop, only the actions that touch on the security policy will feel the difference from the virtual machine that you created. For example, if a policy server sets a smart card device to be used on a flex virtual desktop, the virtual desktop you download will not be able to use a smart card.

   
   

An example

Speaking so much, can you give me a specific scenario for using Flex?

The customer is a nationwide chain of large pharmacies that users prepare to use VDI desktops for data security. But the customer's point of sale all over the country, China's network speed? You know. The VDI desktop disconnects when many people are waiting in line to pay for the bill. That's why we recommend Horizon FLEX, which will still work properly even in the case of a disconnected network. After the network returns to normal, the customer's charge software will automatically transfer the offline data to their own backend server.

Please expect

We will continue to talk about Flex, including the installation and use of flex policy servers, how to manage flex virtual desktops with Mirage, and more.

This article is from the VMware End User Computing blog, so be sure to keep this source http://vmwareeuc.blog.51cto.com/8606576/1762644

Introduction to VMware Horizon Flex