VMware Horizon View has a heavy reliance on the network infrastructure to be able to consistently deliver a good user experience. This means any network infrastructure we intend to use with VMware Horizon View will need to be highly available as well. We will cover the network resources used by Horizon View and the HA strategies for each network resource.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
Active Directory
DNS
DHCP
Network High Availability
VMware vSphere ESXi networking
VMware VMkernel configuration
Switching
NFS
High Availability for NFS
iSCSI
High Availability for iSCSI