Design, develop and deploy a highly available vSphere environment for VMware Horizon View
Key Features
Book Description
The increasing movement to virtualize workloads and workstations has put VMware Horizon View into a central mission critical role in many environments. Administrators may be overwhelmed with planning for outages and dealing with failure scenarios. It’s easy to miss small details that will result in outages down the road. Following VMware Horizon View best practices and planning ahead with network infrastructure will allow you to avoid these common pit falls. This book will walk you through the setup and configuration of View in a highly available configuration. It will provide you with the skills to analyze and deploy configurations that can stand up to rigorous failure standards. The book starts with deploying and basic configuration of VMware Horizon View in a redundant setup, then moves on to cover high availability for networking, fibre channel, NFS, and iSCSI. We finish this book with monitoring and upgrade planning. At the end we also learn about maintaining the uptime and minimizing the downtime that can be caused due to various factors. Each topic comes with a list of best practices and failure scenarios to test. Administrators will learn the intricacies of protecting a View environment.
What you will learn
Install and configure a VMware Horizon View Connection Server and redundant pair
Discover the networking requirements for View and learn how to build redundancy into your network
Analyze each of the View user pool types and how each one can be made highly available and survivable.
Get to know about storage protocols such as NFS, iSCSI and Fibre Channel
Deploy Virtual SAN, and find out how to effectively couple Virtual SAN with View
Learn about View monitoring tools to allow fast responses to various crises
Plan, analyze and upgrade VMware Horizon View
Analyze network services required for VMware Horizon View and build them in a redundant manner
Who this book is for
If you manage, plan or deploy VMware Horizon View or are looking for tips for best practices and configuration details this book is for you. This book is intended for administrators who design and deploy VMware Horizon View or administrators who are looking for ways to improve their existing View environment.
Table of Contents
VMware View Connection Server HA
VMware View Security Server HA
Load Balancers and deployments planning
HA planning for Floating & Dedicated Pools
Storage HA with VMware Virtual SAN
Hardware Redundancy planning for Fiber Channel Storage