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VMware Horizon View High Availability

By : Andrew Alloway
Book Image

VMware Horizon View High Availability

By: Andrew Alloway

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
VMware Horizon View High Availability
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing the View Security server


Let's take a look at the various steps involved in installing a View Security server.

Prerequisites

The prerequisites for installation of the View Security servers are as follows:

  • Two Windows servers running 2008 R2 or higher, 64-bit edition.

  • Windows Updates turned on and automatically installed on the servers.

    Note that Windows updates may reboot the server at a scheduled time. Stagger the update times of the security servers to ensure that there is always one available. Hardware/software load balancers will be able to handle the outage automatically, but clients may be disconnected initially during the reboot.

    If this is not as per company policy, ensure the servers are regularly updated to mitigate security issues as they are discovered.

  • Windows Firewall should be turned on for both the View Connection servers and the View Security servers

  • The View Security servers should not be joined to Active Directory.

    Note that a part of the security and mitigation of...