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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

Active Directory


Active Directory is one of the corner stones of VMware Horizon View. We utilize Active Directory for user authentication, user groups and assignments, service accounts, and in most cases managing authentication against our vCenter. Active Directory is hosted on Microsoft domain controllers. In many environments, the domain controllers also double as DNS and DHCP servers.

Active Directory should be deployed such that we can guard against a single host failure. We can do this by deploying two or more domain controllers. Domain controllers will mirror the data of other domain controllers in the same domain. Due to the inherent redundancy of domain controllers, we can install the domain controller on local disk on each host or on shared storage available to the ESXi cluster. When domain controllers are deployed on shared storage, ensure that DRS rules are configured to keep the domain controllers on separate hosts.