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VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook

By : Jason Ventresco
Book Image

VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook

By: Jason Ventresco

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Managing VMware Horizon View with PowerCLI
Index

Assigning users and groups to Horizon View sites


Previously in this chapter, we then about using Horizon View sites to control desktop assignments within a global entitlement. Using sites, Horizon View can restrict or prioritize the desktop assignment as follows:

  • When the global entitlement has the --requireHomeSite option enabled, users are required to have a home site specified before they can be assigned a desktop

  • When the global entitlement has the --fromHome option enabled, Horizon View will attempt to assign a desktop from their specified home site before assigning desktops located in other sites.

  • Depending on the configuration of the global entitlement --scope setting, based on which pod they are connected to, they might be restricted to desktops in a specific site or even pod within a site (for sites that have more than one pod)

Getting ready

In the Configuring a VMware Horizon View Federated Pod section, we assigned our pods to sites named RTP and Santa-Clara. In this section, we will...