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VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook
VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook

VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook: Over 100 hands-on recipes demonstrating the core as well as latest features of your VMware Horizon View infrastructure , Second Edition

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VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook

Chapter 2. Implementing a VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • The VMware Horizon with View Cloud Pod overview
  • Federated Pod Port requirements
  • Configuring a Horizon View Federated Pod
  • Entitling users or groups in a Horizon View Federated Pod
  • Assigning users and groups to Horizon View sites
  • Reviewing your Horizon View Federated Pod configuration
  • Modifying Horizon View Federated Pod objects
  • Removing objects from your Federated Pod or global entitlements
  • Disabling the Horizon View Cloud Pod Architecture feature

Introduction

This chapter discusses how to enable, configure, and administer a VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod. The Horizon View Cloud Pod Architecture was first introduced in Horizon View 6 and allows administrators to deploy multisite, multipod environments that support global user entitlements. Additionally, when deployed in a multipod configuration, Horizon View 6 is capable of supporting up to 20,000 desktops or twice as many as previous versions. In this chapter, we will review the concepts behind a VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod and cover key areas related to the Cloud Pod functionality.

The VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod overview

A VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod, also known as a federated pod, consists of a set of Horizon View Connection Server instances, shared storage, a database server, and the vSphere and network infrastructures required to host desktop virtual machines.

In a traditional VMware Horizon View implementation, each pod is managed independently. With the Federated Pod Architecture feature introduced in Version 6, you can join together multiple pods to form a single Horizon View implementation called a pod federation.

A pod federation can span multiple sites or data centers and offers the following benefits over the previous single-pod model:

  • It centrally manages Horizon View desktops located across multiple data centers.
  • The desktop entitlement is managed globally, including the ability to assign desktops based on the location of the Horizon View client.
  • It has the ability to balance the Horizon View Client load across multiple data centers using centralized rather...

Federated Pod's port requirements

A VMware Horizon View Federated Pod uses two different network ports to replicate the data and status information. This communication occurs between Horizon View Connection Servers located in different sites. The following table details the port numbers and their respective function within the Federated Pod:

Port

Service

Description

22389

Global data layer LDAP

The shared data is replicated on every Horizon View Connection Server instance in a pod federation. Each Connection Server instance in a pod federation runs a second LDAP instance to store the shared data.

8472

The View Interpod API (VIPA) interpod communication channel

Connection Server instances use the VIPA interpod communication channel to launch new desktops, find existing desktops, and share the health status data and other information.

Configuring a VMware Horizon View Federated Pod

A VMware Horizon View Federated Pod is configured using a command-line utility on Horizon View Connection Servers.

Getting ready

The Horizon View Federated Pod configuration process will require command-line access to at least one Connection Server in each pod that will be a member of the federated pod.

These commands can be executed remotely if you configure your Connection Servers to allow remote command access using tools such as Microsoft PsExec (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb897553.aspx). If security policies or other concerns prevent this capability, you will need to run the commands directly within the console on the target View Connection Servers.

How to do it...

In this section, we will walk through the steps required to enable the View Federated Pod components, and then create a multisite Federated Pod. For this exercise, we will use the following resources:

  • VIEWCS01.vjason.local: This is the Connection Server located in the...

Entitling users or groups in a Horizon View Federated Pod

Once the VMware Horizon View Federated Pod has been created and desktop pools have been deployed in at least one pod, we can create a global entitlement. In this section, we will walk through the creation of a global entitlement. With a global entitlement, users see only one desktop pool in the Horizon View Client, yet they might be assigned desktops from any number of pods in the pod federation based on the entitlement configuration.

Getting ready

The following figure is a conceptual example of a global entitlement in a VMware Horizon View federation using the names of the objects used as an example later in this section. In this example, the sample user is a member of the global entitlement called Global-Finance. Global-Finance provides entitlement to two floating desktop pools, named RTP-Finance-Floating and SantaClara-Finance-Floating. The RTP-Finance-Floating pool is located in a pod named RTP-Pod1 in the RTP data center, and...

Assigning users and groups to Horizon View sites

Previously in this chapter, we then about using Horizon View sites to control desktop assignments within a global entitlement. Using sites, Horizon View can restrict or prioritize the desktop assignment as follows:

  • When the global entitlement has the --requireHomeSite option enabled, users are required to have a home site specified before they can be assigned a desktop
  • When the global entitlement has the --fromHome option enabled, Horizon View will attempt to assign a desktop from their specified home site before assigning desktops located in other sites.
  • Depending on the configuration of the global entitlement --scope setting, based on which pod they are connected to, they might be restricted to desktops in a specific site or even pod within a site (for sites that have more than one pod)

Getting ready

In the Configuring a VMware Horizon View Federated Pod section, we assigned our pods to sites named RTP and Santa-Clara. In this section, we will...

Reviewing your Horizon View Federated Pod configuration

In this recipe, we will review the syntax for several different commands used for Horizon View Federated Pod Administration. These commands build upon those reviewed earlier in this chapter, reusing many of the same command-line switches.

Getting ready

Several commands exist for viewing the configuration of our Federated Pod. Using these commands, we can verify that each of the commands used earlier in this chapter was completed successfully and accomplished what we meant to accomplish.

To view the configuration of a Federated Pod, command-line access to one of the Connection Servers in the federated pod is required.

How to do it...

In this section, we will demonstrate several different commands that are used to display the configuration of a Horizon View federated pod.

Viewing Horizon View global entitlements

The following command displays all of the global entitlements that have been created in our Horizon View federated pod:

  • lmvutil.cmd...

Introduction


This chapter discusses how to enable, configure, and administer a VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod. The Horizon View Cloud Pod Architecture was first introduced in Horizon View 6 and allows administrators to deploy multisite, multipod environments that support global user entitlements. Additionally, when deployed in a multipod configuration, Horizon View 6 is capable of supporting up to 20,000 desktops or twice as many as previous versions. In this chapter, we will review the concepts behind a VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod and cover key areas related to the Cloud Pod functionality.

The VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod overview


A VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod, also known as a federated pod, consists of a set of Horizon View Connection Server instances, shared storage, a database server, and the vSphere and network infrastructures required to host desktop virtual machines.

In a traditional VMware Horizon View implementation, each pod is managed independently. With the Federated Pod Architecture feature introduced in Version 6, you can join together multiple pods to form a single Horizon View implementation called a pod federation.

A pod federation can span multiple sites or data centers and offers the following benefits over the previous single-pod model:

  • It centrally manages Horizon View desktops located across multiple data centers.

  • The desktop entitlement is managed globally, including the ability to assign desktops based on the location of the Horizon View client.

  • It has the ability to balance the Horizon View Client load across multiple data centers using centralized rather...

Federated Pod's port requirements


A VMware Horizon View Federated Pod uses two different network ports to replicate the data and status information. This communication occurs between Horizon View Connection Servers located in different sites. The following table details the port numbers and their respective function within the Federated Pod:

Port

Service

Description

22389

Global data layer LDAP

The shared data is replicated on every Horizon View Connection Server instance in a pod federation. Each Connection Server instance in a pod federation runs a second LDAP instance to store the shared data.

8472

The View Interpod API (VIPA) interpod communication channel

Connection Server instances use the VIPA interpod communication channel to launch new desktops, find existing desktops, and share the health status data and other information.

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If you want a more detailed explanation concerning the implementation of several different core features of VMware Horizon View, this is the book for you. Whether you are new to VMware Horizon View or an existing user, this book will provide you with the knowledge you need to successfully deploy several core features and get introduced to the latest features of version 6.0 as well.

What you will learn

  • Administer a multisite VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod
  • Deploy streamed applications using VMware Horizon View and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services
  • Use VMware VSAN to provide the storage resources required for VMware Horizon View
  • Configure and manage VMware Horizon View using the View commandline tools and PowerCLI
  • Employ VMware Horizon View Persona Management to manage user profile data
  • Utilize vRealize Operations for Horizon to monitor and troubleshoot the Horizon View infrastructure
  • Use VMware ThinApp to virtualize applications, and VMware Horizon View to deploy them
  • Implement Kiosk Mode VMware Horizon View clients

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Table of Contents

12 Chapters
1. VMware Horizon View Architecture Fundamentals Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Implementing a VMware Horizon View Cloud Pod Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Horizon View Installation, Backup, and Recovery Using the CLI Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Managing VMware Horizon View with PowerCLI Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Managing VMware Horizon View with PowerCLI
Retrieving the Horizon View license information
Enabling remote management on Windows
Establishing a remote Horizon View PowerCLI session
Viewing all the PowerCLI commands and their options
Managing desktop pools with PowerCLI
Creating an automatically provisioned linked-clone desktop pool
Creating an automatically provisioned full-clone desktop pool
Creating a manually provisioned desktop pool
Creating a manual unmanaged desktop pool
Creating a Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) pool
Updating the Horizon View pools
Creating a network label specification
Exporting network label specifications for linked-clone pools
Exporting network label specifications for full-clone pools
Retrieving the Horizon View Composer Server information
Retrieving a list of the Horizon View desktop pools
Removing desktop pools
Entitling a desktop pool
Entitling or unentitling an individual desktop
Reviewing the desktop pool entitlement
Refreshing a linked-clone desktop or pool
Recomposing a linked-clone desktop pool
Rebalancing a linked-clone desktop pool
Updating the Horizon View global settings
Updating the Horizon View connection broker settings
Adding a vCenter Server to Horizon View
Removing a vCenter Server from Horizon View
Updating the settings of vCenter Server that is linked to Horizon View
Monitoring the remote Horizon View sessions
Resetting a Horizon View desktop
Disconnecting the Horizon View Client session
Logging Off the Horizon View Client Session
Configuring the Horizon View license
Retrieving the global Horizon View configuration data
Retrieving the Horizon View connection broker information
Retrieving a list of virtual machines managed by Horizon View
Retrieving a list of physical machines
Retrieving the AD user or group Information
Retrieving information about persistent data disks
Retrieving the Horizon View event reports and their descriptions
Retrieving the Horizon View event reports
Retrieving the Horizon View infrastructure's health monitors and their status
Retrieving a list of the vCenter Servers linked to the Horizon View environment
Retrieving a list of the Windows RDS Servers registered with Horizon View
Retrieving the Horizon View license information
5. Implementation of Horizon View Persona Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Delivering Applications Using VMware ThinApp Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Deploying Horizon View Clients in Kiosk Mode Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. vRealize Operations for Horizon Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Using VMware Mirage with Horizon View Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. Implementing VMware Virtual SAN for Horizon View Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
11. Implementing Application Streaming Using Windows Remote Desktop Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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The great thing about this book is that it doesn't just focus on fundamentals. Once fundamentals are covered, it jumps right into Cloud Pod Architecture and automation with PowerCLI. Another great benefit of this book is that is also discusses ThinApp, Horizon Mirage and VSAN use within the Horizon Suite.
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We have a Horizon 5 environment and we were planning on upgrading to Horizon 6 and looking for resources to help us do that hopefully without any painful experiences. This book was able to accomplish that. Also it is very easy to understand and the concepts are very well explained. You can understand the major differences and new features from Horizon 5 to 6.
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I was looking for a book on VMware Horizon View which can help me in my project on view with clear design decisions on various components explained, solution prerequisites and steps for installation. This book helped me in all my requirements. I was able to map a clear plan of View roll out at my Client's environment by following the design and implementation steps mentioned in this book. Apart from covering the tradition View concepts this books also covers advanced topics like Cloud Pod Architecture, VMware Mirage, View administration Tasks using Powershell, I owe my success of the recent project on VMware Horizon View to this book. I can surely say that this is one of the best technical book I read.
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