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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

Software or hardware load balancing


Load balancers provide the highest amount of scalability and reliability of any solutions currently present. The load balancer is designed to handle all aspects of high availability operation to ensure the maximum uptime of a VMware Horizon View environment. To implement high availability with a hardware or software load balancer, the load balancer should be deployed in a high availability pair to guard against a load balancer outage. This can add two to four VMs or appliances to the View Environment and may significantly increase costs.

Note that when deploying software load balancer VMs it is necessary to configure appropriate anti-affinity DRS rules and to include the load balancer in the power on rules for each host.

Consult your load balancer vendor's documentation for appropriate configurations with VMware Horizon View. Your vendor will recommend best practices that reflect the features available to your load balancer.

The advantages of software or...