SSL certificates for Horizon View

By default, Horizon View comes with self-signed certificates that are fine for a proof of concept or a small-scale pilot, but for a production environment, you need to have proper certificates.

The use of certificates became a requirement with View 5.1, where they were used for the Horizon View components to communicate, such as the Connection Server, Replica Server, and View Composer, as well as the underlying infrastructure of the ESXi hosts and Virtual Center Servers. Each of these components needs to have a certificate installed along with the client device that is connecting to it.

In the following section of this chapter, we will briefly cover how to set up certificates by installing a Root CA in our example test environment to get you started with Horizon View. However, we strongly recommend that you engage with your security team to deploy the correct type of certificate for your organization/environment.

Installing a Root CA

In this section, we are...