Global Connection
settings
If you do not
use INI files to provide central configuration (global connection
settings) to users, you can use the
Global Connection Settings dialog box to configure settings that affect all of the connections
in your list of connections:
- Zero desktop—Click Global Connection
Settings in the list of connections.
- Classic desktop—Click Global
Connection Settings in the Connect Manager.
To configure
the Global Connection settings:
- On the desktop taskbar, click .
The Global Connection Settings dialog
box is displayed.
- Click the Session tab to select the
check boxes you want for the options that are available to all sessions.
The Smart Card check box specifies the default
setting for connecting to a smart card reader at startup.
NOTE:ICA
sessions always have automatic connection to attached smart card readers.
When using the Disks check box for automatic connection to
connected USB sticks, use the following guidelines:
- More than one disk can be used at
the same time, however, the maximum number of USB sticks including
different subareas is 12.
- Be sure to save all data and sign
off from the session mapping the USB stick before removing the USB
stick.
NOTE:USB devices redirection —By default, audio, video and printer
devices will not use HDX USB for redirection. You can make selections
for USB device redirection on the Session tab of the Global Connection
Settings dialog box.
- Click the ICA tab, and do the following:
- Select the check
boxes you want for the options that are available to all ICA sessions.
- Select an audio quality optimized for your connection.
- Use the Map to option to map a disk. When a drive is entered, the disk is mapped under that particular drive.
- Click the RDP tab and do the following:
- Enable or disable Network Level Authentication
(NLA)—The NLA authentication method verifies users before they are
allowed to connect with a full Remote Desktop connection.
- Enable or disable ForceSpan—This
dual-monitor feature allows you to span the session horizontally across
two monitors, thus two monitors acting as one large monitor.
- Enable or disable Terminal Service
multimedia Redirection (TSMM).
- Enable or disable Record from Local
(recording from local microphone).
- Enable or disable RemoteFX.
- Select the USB Redirection Type (TCX
USB or RDP USB)—TCX USB is the default. To use RDP USB, you must
use a RemoteFX session for Windows 7/Windows 2008 R2 session. However,
RDP USB is not supported using a standard Windows 7/Windows 2008 R2
session. For Windows 8 session and above, RDP USB is supported.
- In PCoIP enabled clients, an extra tab
named PCoIP is available. Select the USB device redirection
type from the drop-down list. The available values are PCoIP USB and TCX USB.
- Click the Horizon tab, and do the following:
- Select the Enable H264 check box. This option allows H.264 decoding in Horizon Client. Enabling this option, improves the performance of high-end applications. To validate the H.264 decoding, add an INI parameter BlastDebugClientH264=yes, and verify if the H264 basic watermark is displayed in the upper-left corner of the VMware Blast session window.
The following table describes the performance of H.264 decoder in
VMware Horizon sessions that use the VMware Blast display protocol:
Table 1. Blast H.264 decodingBlast H.264 decodingScreen resolution within VMware Horizon Blast session
| Blast H.264 decoding in VMware Horizon Blast session
| Summary
|
---|
Session display width is less than or equal to 1920 pixels.
| Blast H.264 decoding is always enabled.
| Horizon client uses Blast H.264 decoding even if the H.264 decoder
setting is disabled using GUI or INI options.
|
Session display width is greater than 1920 pixels.
| Blast H.264 decoding is disabled by default. You can enable Blast
H.264
decoding either on the ThinOS GUI or by deploying the INI
parameter.
| By default, Horizon client does not use Blast H.264 decoding. If
the Blast H.264
decoder setting is enabled on ThinOS, then the Horizon client uses
H.264 decoding. Enabling H.264 may downgrade the session
performance.
|
NOTE:- Blast H.264 feature is not supported on Wyse 5010 thin clients, Wyse 5040 thin clients, and Wyse 7010 thin clients. Blast H.264 is automatically disabled on Wyse 5060 thin client for 1920 x 1200 resolution due to hardware limitation.
- A performance tracker is introduced by VMware for performance evaluation and data collection.
- From the Network Condition drop-down list, select whether to use a condition for your Blast connection.
NOTE:Blast Extreme protocol is part of BEAT (Blast Extreme Advanced Transport).
- Select Excellent to allow the Blast connection to use Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).
- Select Typical to allow the Blast connection to use Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). By default, this value is selected.
- Select Poor to allow the Blast connection to use User Datagram Protocol (UDP). UDP uses the available bandwidth to deliver the end-user experience.
To enable UDP, you need to make a few changes to the VMware View Connection Server, the Agent host desktop, and the VMware Horizon Client. For information about the necessary configuration on server and agent desktop, see VMware Certificate Guide at code.vmware.com/group/euc/thin-client/certs/4.6.