Chapter 6. Implementing a Horizon Cloud Pod
This chapter discusses how to enable, configure, and administer a VMware Horizon Cloud Pod. The Cloud Pod feature enables Horizon administrators to deploy multi-site, multi-pod View environments that support cross-Horizon pod user entitlements. Additionally, when deployed in a multi-pod configuration Horizon is capable of supporting up to 50,000 client connections, or five times as many as a single Horizon pod. In this chapter, we will review the concepts behind a VMware Horizon Cloud Pod and cover key areas related to the Horizon Cloud Pod functionality.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- VMware Horizon Cloud Pod overview
- Cloud Pod port requirements and topology limits
- Configuring a Cloud Pod
- Configuring and associating users and groups to Horizon sites
- Creating Global Entitlements for Horizon desktop and application pools
- Updating Global Entitlements
- Determining the effective Horizon site for a user
- Monitoring connections...
