Enabling VMware Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture
In this section we will be enabling VMware Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture for a Multi-site implementation.
In a previous lab you have already enabled a 3rd Global Load-balancer which is a requirement
Deploying VMware Cloud Pod Architecture for a multi-site deployment
We will Initialize VMware Cloud Pod Architecture on Site 1 and do a Federation Join on Site 2
- On your ControlCenter server
- Open your site 1 browser ( Blue Profile browser)
- In the favourites bar
- select the Horizon shortcut
- In the VMware Horizon login page
- In the Username area
- enter administrator
- In the Password area
- enter VMware1!
- select Sign in
- In the Username area
- In the Horizon Admin Console
- In the Inventory pane
- under Settings
- select Cloud Pod Architecture
- under Settings
- In the Inventory pane
- In the Cloud Pod Architecture window
- select Initialize the Cloud Pod Architecture feature
- in the Initialize window
- select Initialize
- On your ControlCenter server
- Open your site 2 browser (Red Profile browser)
- In the Favourites bar
- select the Horizon Site 2 shortcut
- In the VMware Horizon login page
- In the Username area
- enter administrator
- In the Password area
- enter VMware1!
- select Sign in
- In the Username area
- In the Horizon Admin Console
- In the Inventory pane
- under Settings
- select Cloud Pod Architecture
- under Settings
- In the Inventory pane
- In the Cloud Pod Architecture window
- select Join the pod federation
- In the Join window
- under Connection Server (host name or IP address)
- enter horizon-01a.euc-livefire.com
- under User name(domain\username)
- enter euc-livefire.com\administrator
- under Password
- enter VMware1!
- In the bottom right corner
- select Join
- under Connection Server (host name or IP address)
- On your ControlCenter server
-
Switch back to your Site 1 Horizon Admin Console session
- In the Cloud Pod Architecture window
- top right corner
- select refresh
- top right corner
- Note that you have two Pods in the same Default First Site
- In the Cloud Pod Architecture window
-
Switch back to your Site 1 Horizon Admin Console session
- In the Horizon Admin Console
- In the Inventory pane
- under Settings
- select Sites
- under Settings
- In the Inventory pane
- In the Horizon Admin Console
- In the Inventory pane
- In the Sites window
-
next to Default First Site
- select the radio button
- select Edit
-
next to Default First Site
- In the Sites window
- In the Inventory pane
- In the Edit Site window
- next to *Name
- edit Default First Site
- to Bangalore
- select OK
- edit Default First Site
- next to *Name
- In the Horizon Admin Console
- In the Inventory pane
- In the Sites window
- select Add
- In the Sites window
- In the Inventory pane
- In the Add Site window
- next to * Name
- type Seattle
- select OK
- next to * Name
- In the Sites window
- next to Bangalore
- select the radio button
- under Pod
- next to Cluster-HORIZON-02A
- select the radio button
- select Edit
- next to Cluster-HORIZON-02A
- next to Bangalore
- In the Edit Pod window
- next to Site
- from the dropdown
- change Bangalore
- to Seattle
- change Bangalore
- Select OK
- from the dropdown
- next to Site
- In the Sites window
- note both Seattle and Bangalore each have their own POD
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