VMware Horizon View High Availability

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VMware Horizon View High Availability

By : Andrew Alloway

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VMware Horizon View High Availability

By: Andrew Alloway

Overview of this book

VMware Horizon View High Availability

VMware Horizon View High Availability

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

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

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

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

HA Planning for Floating and Dedicated Pools

HA Planning for Floating and Dedicated Pools

An overview of pools

Dedicated pools

Remote Desktop Services pools

High Availability checklist

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

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

NFS, iSCSI, and Network Planning

NFS, iSCSI, and Network Planning

Active Directory

DHCP High Availability

Network High Availability

Storage High Availability

VMware vSphere ESXi

NFS third-party features

NFS High Availability

iSCSI High Availability

Failure testing checklist

Monitoring VMware Horizon View

Monitoring VMware Horizon View

Monitoring the View connection servers

Monitoring the VMware vCenter server

Monitoring tools available

Monitoring checklist

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

Index

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Chapter 5. Storage HA with VMware Virtual SAN

In this chapter, we will go over the requirements and considerations for VMware Virtual SAN. We will cover disaster scenarios and configuration information to help with successful VMware Virtual SAN deployments.

We will cover the following topics:

Virtual SAN capabilities and characteristics
Virtual SAN for VMware Horizon View
Virtual SAN sizing
Virtual SAN installation
Assigning a license to a Virtual SAN cluster
Add a drive to a Virtual SAN
Remove a drive from a Virtual SAN
Virtual SAN features and best practices
Virtual SAN HA best practices