To manage OS patches and software updates with instant clones, you can use the push-image operation for the patching process with zero downtime. You start by preparing a new virtual machine and snapshot and then scheduling a push-image. Horizon deletes old desktops that are unused and quickly create new desktops, for other desktops, it waits until the user logs off and then recreates those desktops. This approach…
Category: Horizon
Deploying Published Desktops and Applications
In the last post, I configured the desktop-based pool and now I will show you how to set up a session-based pool to provide desktop sessions and deliver applications to many users. Horizon uses Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS) to provide desktop and application sessions to users. Horizon 8 Series: Create RDS Farm To deploy published…
Deploy an Instant-Clone Desktop Pool
In the last post, I configured the Horizon Connection Server and it is ready to publish and deploy new desktops. In this post, I’ll walk through deploying a windows 11 desktop pool. Horizon 8 Series: When we talk about a virtual desktop infrastructure, there are usually two ways to provide a desktop to a user: either…
Horizon Initial Configuration
In the last post, I installed Horizon Connection Server and now I want to configure the Connection Server to be able to create pools of desktops and RDSH-published applications. This configuration includes the following tasks: Horizon 8 Series: Creating appropriate domain users and OUs 1- Log in to the Active Directory and open Active Directory Users…
Install Horizon Connection Server
In this step, you have to fulfill some requirements to be able to install the Connection Server. If you already have an Active Directory or a SQL Server, you can skip installing a new one. One design principle is to eliminate a single point of failure, however, since this is a lab environment, we are…
VMware Horizon 8 (2209) Installation Guide
Since I am preparing myself for a new virtual desktop experience and on the other hand, I have not dealt with this product for two years professionally, I thought it would be useful to document and publish each step I take in installing a complete Virtual Desktop Infrastructure based on Horizon 8. Each post contains…
Horizon View 7 – Initial Horizon View Configuration
In this post, we are about configuring the Connection Server so that it can create pools of VDI desktops. We use the Horizon Administrator UI to perform these Connection Server configuration tasks. Before we create a desktop pool we must have the following parameters configured: Horizon 7 license vCenter Server user account – See Horizon View…
Horizon View 7 – Creating a Desktop Template
Horizon view uses a virtual machine template as the basis of the pool whatever it is linked pool or instance pool. With an automated desktop pool that contains full virtual machines, you create a virtual machine template and Horizon 7 uses that template to create virtual machines in vCenter Server for each desktop. I will…
Horizon View 7 – Configure Event Database
The event database stores information about horizon view events in a database. You create an event database by adding it to an existing database server and then configure horizon view to use this database for storing events. Add a Database and Database User for View Events If you are not familiar with the procedure to…
Horizon View 7 – Configure Certificate For Connection Server
For Horizon View it is recommended that you configure your VMware View Horizon Servers with a signed SSL certificate. After you enter the URL of view horizon administrator to log in, you will see the following error in the address bar that is related to the certificate. In this post, we will discuss how to…