Disaster recovery and backup
As with any solution, fully understanding the backup and disaster recovery options is highly important. With Horizon View, there are multiple areas where you should understand the backup and recovery options, as well as the options available to you if a DR event should occur.
Backup and recovery options
There are a number of elements that you need to ensure are backed up when it comes to a Horizon View solution; they are summarized as follows:
View Connection Servers
View Security Servers
Microsoft Lightweight Directory Service
View Composer Database
vCenter Database
vCenter
File servers containing ThinApp and View Persona Data
Golden images
Full clone and persistent desktop images
As you can see, there are a number of areas that you need to ensure are protected on a daily basis, if not more often.
Through the Horizon View Administrator, you are able to configure the scheduled backup of the LDAP repository and the View Composer Database. These will be backed up to the following...
