With the release of VMware Horizon 7 and User Environment Manager 9 VMware has introduced Smart Policy’s to help administrators manage their Virtual environments better and improve what users can get access to and from where.
Smart Policys can be set on the following conditions
- View Client Info (IP & Name)
- Endpoint location (Internal/External)
- Horizon Tags
- Desktop Pool name
Below is a list of the smart policy that can be set and how they can be used by the Horizon administrators.
Clipboard
- Enable
- Disable
- Allow Copy from Client to Agent
- Allow Copy from Agent to Client
Client Drive
- Disable
- Allow All
- Read Only
USB
- Enable
- Disable
Printing
- Enable
- Disable
PCoIP bandwidth profiles
- High-Speed (20 Mbps)
- LAN (10Mbps or Higher)
- Dedicated WAN (5Mbps default)
- Broadband WAN (2Mbps)
- Low-Speed (1Mbps)
- Extremely low-speed connections (up to 500Kbps)
The following table shows when to use the best bandwidth profile and for what use cases
| Description | BW(Mbps) | typical network | typical user | |
| 1 | Best User Experience(workstation) | 20 | LAN | M&E CAD/CAM |
| 2 | Best User Experience(VDI) | 10 | LAN – MAN | Knowledge worker, video |
| 3 | Default Setting | 5 | WAN | Task worker, light video |
| 4 | Optimal User Experience | 2 | WAN | Office Apps |
| 5 | Prioritize Bandwidth | 1 | WAN | Basic Apps only |
| 6 | Minimum Bandwidth | 0.5 | WAN Low | Data Entry |
The following table shows how the PCoIP profile is tuned based on the profile selected
| GPO | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Max Session BW (kbps) | 9000 | 9000 | 9000 | 5000 | 2000 | 1000 |
| Min Session BW (kbps) | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Enable BTL | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Max Initial Image Quality | 100 | 90 | 80 | 70 | 70 | 70 |
| Minimum Image Quality | 50 | 50 | 40 | 40 | 30 | 30 |
| Max FPS | 60 | 30 | 30 | 20 | 15 | 5 |
| Max Audio Bandwidth (kbps) | 1600 | 1600 | 500 | 500 | 200 | 90 |
| Image Quality performance. | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 25 | 0 |
To take advantage of these new Smart Policy you will need to use Horizon 7 and User Environment Manager 9 and have the latest Horizon Agents and Clients installed. It should also be noted that these policy only work with the PCoIP and BLAST Extreme protocols and not RDP.
For information on more new feature released with Horizon 7 see the following blog
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