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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

Firewall and DNS requirements of the View Security server


The View Security server should be set up in a DMZ-type environment with firewalls separating it from both the WAN and LAN traffic.

The following rules need to be configured on the firewalls:

External ports used to communicate with clients are listed in the following table:

Source

Source port

Protocol

Destination

Destination port

Notes

Horizon client

TCP/Any

HTTP

Security server

TCP 80

For HTTP to HTTPS redirects.

Horizon client

TCP/Any

HTTPS

Security server

TCP 443

For HTTPS communication with the web browser and the View Horizon client.

Horizon client

TCP/Any

UDP/Any

PCoIP

Security server

TCP 4172

UDP 4172

For communications between the View Horizon client and the security server. This port carries all the PCoIP traffic including USB tunneling, audio, and video.

Security server

UDP 4172

PCoIP

Horizon client

UDP Any

The security servers send PCoIP data back to the client from UDP port 4172. The destination...