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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

Monitoring checklist


Depending on the way you choose to monitor VMware Horizon View, you may respond to outages in different ways. Please make sure to document how you monitor each event, and ensure you receive a timely notice to respond to the issue. After each step, ensure that a notice was received and that you can respond to each issue quickly.

  • Power off each host one at a time

  • Induce a high RAM usage situation on one or more VMs

  • Induce a low disk space situation on a View desktop

  • Induce a low disk space situation on a Horizon View server

  • Induce a low disk space situation on a datastore being used by the Horizon View environment

  • Shutdown each View connection server one at a time

  • Shutdown each Active Directory server one at a time

  • Shutdown each DNS server one at a time

  • Unplug an Ethernet cable from an ESXi host

  • Unplug a power cable from an ESXi host

  • Shutdown a datastore and verify the outage notification (CAUTION: do in test environment only) and have a good backup ready

  • Verify disk failures of the...