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VMware Horizon View High Availability

By : Andrew Alloway
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VMware Horizon View High Availability

By: Andrew Alloway

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VMware Horizon View High Availability
Andrew Alloway
Nov, 2015 | 216 pages
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
VMware Horizon View High Availability
VMware Horizon View High Availability
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
VMware Horizon View 6.0 Connection Server HA
VMware Horizon View 6.0 Connection Server HA
Licensing Horizon View
Database considerations for Horizon View
Functions of the vCenter server
High Availability deployment scenarios for vCenter
Functions of the View Composer
Installation of the View Composer 6.0
Functions of the View Connection servers
Installation of View Connection Server 6.0
Network services HA
Failure testing checklist
Summary
2
VMware View 6.0 Security Server HA
VMware View 6.0 Security Server HA
Functions of the View Security server
Firewall and DNS requirements of the View Security server
High Availability planning for the View Security server
Installing the View Security server
View Security server failure checklist
Summary
3
Load Balancers and Deployment Planning
Load Balancers and Deployment Planning
Ports used for load balancing
DNS load balancing
Windows Network Load Balancing
Software or hardware load balancing
High Availability and failure planning
References
Summary
4
HA Planning for Floating and Dedicated Pools
HA Planning for Floating and Dedicated Pools
An overview of pools
Dedicated pools
Floating pools
Manual pools
Remote Desktop Services pools
High Availability checklist
Summary
5
Storage HA with VMware Virtual SAN
Storage HA with VMware Virtual SAN
Virtual SAN capabilities and characteristics
Virtual SAN for VMware Horizon View
Virtual SAN requirements and limitations
Virtual SAN sizing
Virtual SAN installation
Assign a license key to the Virtual SAN cluster
Add a drive into a Virtual SAN
Remove a drive from a Virtual SAN
Virtual SAN features and best practices
High Availability checklist
Summary
6
Hardware Redundancy Planning for Fibre Channel Storage
Hardware Redundancy Planning for Fibre Channel Storage
Fibre Channel concepts and definitions
VMFS and Fibre Channel workflow
Fibre Channel storage arrays
ESXi Fibre Channel and SAN restrictions
Planning for High Availability
Multipathing and managing Fibre Channel from within VMware vSphere Web Client
Fibre Channel High Availability checklist
Summary
7
NFS, iSCSI, and Network Planning
NFS, iSCSI, and Network Planning
Active Directory
DNS
DHCP
DHCP High Availability
Network High Availability
Storage High Availability
VMware vSphere ESXi
NFS
NFS third-party features
NFS High Availability
iSCSI
iSCSI High Availability
Failure testing checklist
Summary
8
Monitoring VMware Horizon View
Monitoring VMware Horizon View
Monitoring the View connection servers
Monitoring the VMware vCenter server
Monitoring tools available
Monitoring checklist
Summary
9
Upgrade and Downtime Planning
Upgrade and Downtime Planning
Prerequisites and common pitfalls
VMware vCenter Server 6.0 for Windows
VMware vCenter Server 6.0 Appliance
VMware Update Manager
ESXi 6.0 upgrade planning
Upgrading VMware Tools and Horizon View agent on base image
Host upgrade planning
Storage upgrade planning
Network upgrade planning
Summary
Index
Index

Credits

Author

Andrew Alloway

Reviewers

Bruce Bookman

Matthew Bunce

John Hubert

Commissioning Editor

Neil Alexander

Acquisition Editors

Shaon Basu

Manish Nainani

Content Development Editor

Arshiya Ayaz Umer

Technical Editor

Pramod Kumavat

Copy Editors

Ting Baker

Roshni Banerjee

Project Coordinator

Shipra Chawhan

Proofreader

Safis Editing

Indexer

Priya Sane

Production Coordinator

Nitesh Thakur

Cover Work

Nitesh Thakur

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